How to read picture books?

These days, Tong asked for advice.

Many English education experts in PRT international language courses.

Let them share it with you,

How to read picture books?

1. Use pictures to stimulate children's interest.

For young children, reading begins with pictures, which are much more attractive than words.

Therefore, parents can skillfully use the beautiful pictures in picture books to ask questions to their children and arouse their interest in stories and reading.

For example, after reading a picture book about animals, parents can interact with their children: "What we are going to read today is a book about lions", "What do lions like to eat?" "Oh ... I like meat." While reading, you can also imitate the sounds of different animals to attract children's attention.

Seeing this, some parents have doubts. Is it okay to mix Chinese and English? In fact, if parents can't communicate in English, it's okay to mix Chinese and English. Mainly to eliminate children's strangeness to English and stimulate children's interest.

When Tong Bianxiao speaks English with her 2-year-old baby, at first she often asks, "Mom, what are you talking about?" Later, I listened to my teacher's advice. On the one hand, Chinese and English are mixed, on the other hand, I start with pictures and English nursery rhymes. She became interested in English.

Tips: Try to choose a picture book that your child is interested in.

In addition to using pictures to arouse children's reading interest, it is very important to choose picture books.

A good publishing house picture book has high color quality, beautiful pictures and many details, so that children can dig out other information from the pictures of expressions or backgrounds. If children are not interested in pictures, how can they be interested in words and English?

In addition, Dr. Li, a special expert and professor of English Department of Hong Kong University of Education, believes that when choosing picture books, it is best to choose some English picture books that children are very familiar with or close to real life. In addition, it is also important to choose picture books within the scope of students' language ability.

2. Tell stories to children with exaggerated intonation expressions.

Stories in English picture books bring different emotional experiences to students. They follow the protagonist of the story and feel the emotions such as sadness, joy, goodness and evil in the story, thus enriching their spiritual and emotional world and promoting the development of their socialized emotions. When children are interested in picture book stories, they can try to tell them stories in English.

A good mother is also a good actress. When children are listening to stories, parents can point to the patterns in the picture book and interpret them in an exaggerated tone. Bring children into the world of picture books through their own language, movements and expressions, and let students feel the joys and sorrows of the protagonist. Then help children understand.

Tips: Use the "Five Fingers Principle" to select picture books suitable for children to read.

There is a key principle in choosing books: the five-finger principle.

Open a page of the book, recognize it from the first sentence, and put away a finger when you meet a word you don't know. If you don't know five words on this page, then this picture book is beyond your child's English level.

It is suggested that parents can choose picture books with high sentence repetition and catchy sentences in the early stage of children's picture book reading, which is easy to eliminate children's language strangeness. If children have difficulty in reading, parents can also choose some graded picture books with moderate difficulty, so that children will be more interested in reading and it is convenient for parents and children to review.

3. Let the children read the picture book aloud

If you choose a picture book suitable for children, and the children have mastered some high-frequency words and probably understood the meaning of the picture book, then you can let the children watch these words read out one by one with emotion and intonation.

Tips: Don't rush to correct pronunciation mistakes, pick out new words and let children enjoy reading.

In the process of reading picture books aloud, parents don't have to rush to point out that "you read them wrong" if the children read them wrong or read them nonstandard. They can take the children and try to read it again, so that the children can find their own pronunciation problems. Moreover, if you encounter new words, you don't need to stop to teach. Because the illustrated English picture book story creates a complete story scene for students to understand. When reading English picture books, students are more interested in understanding a story than just learning grammar and vocabulary. After the children read the picture book aloud, parents can try to guide the children to recall what the picture book probably tells, and sum up some structural context from it, or summarize the story to see if the children really understand the picture book.

Parents' persistence and companionship can make children have more fun in reading, and can also help students cultivate cross-cultural awareness and promote the development of imagination and creativity.