During early education, parents teach their children to read, which is basically a word or even a whole sentence. Someone pointed out whether pinyin should be taught first, then spelling, and finally words? In fact, the abstract thinking of children before the age of four has not yet formed. I still can't understand the process of putting letters together.

Should preschool children learn to read or learn pinyin first? Many parents are confused.

There is no such "smart" mother in the world. First, teach the child phonemes one by one, learn the initials and finals one by one, and then teach him how to spell. Any mother in her right mind is always a word, even a whole sentence, which makes her children imitate "babbling" repeatedly.

Preschool children can only know pinyin letters, but they can't spell them. Because children's thinking has not yet developed into abstract thinking, children around 4 years old can change from image thinking to abstract thinking, so there is no need to worry. Knowing only pinyin letters is the same as knowing Chinese characters, but it is impossible for children of this age to combine initials and finals. Even if some children may have done it, they will recite it. So don't rush it, or the children will get bored and lose interest in learning.

Square Chinese characters are far easier to identify and remember than meaningless Latin letters with many similarities. The advantage of teaching Chinese characters directly is that a single Chinese character can be compiled into catchy and interesting words for children to listen to, while the meaningless and unrelated Latin symbols are totally two interests and two atmospheres, which naturally bring two completely different effects, not only in learning efficiency, but also in cultivating children's interests.

Some parents worry that if they don't teach pinyin while reading, their children will not speak Mandarin well. In fact, let the kindergarten children listen to the catchy rhyme on the tape, talk while listening, learn while playing, read aloud in the game, and learn to speak Mandarin in the game for about 20 minutes every day, that is, children in southern dialect areas can also achieve considerable results in their Mandarin.

Practice shows that not learning Chinese Pinyin first does not prevent children from learning to speak Mandarin, which is not the most critical link for them to learn Mandarin. If you learn Mandarin and know a certain number of Chinese characters, you can learn Chinese Pinyin, which is beneficial to pronunciation and continuous improvement, and can greatly save learning time and energy.

In literacy teaching, teachers' teaching is a "crutch" for students to read. Now, let's make a big detour: first teach Pinyin, and let Pinyin letters become a "crutch" to help children read. Is this bend worth reading for children? In the past twenty years, many experiments of teaching children to read directly show that neither the teacher's teaching nor the students' learning is as arduous as the teaching of Latin pinyin letters, and the literacy speed and teaching quality have been obviously improved. Only by postponing the teaching of Chinese Pinyin for one or two years and putting forward the direct teaching of Chinese characters will there be good results.

To sum up, the ultimate goal of learning Pinyin is to learn Chinese characters well. The only difference is how to use this "crutch". After understanding the baby's thinking development, I believe every parent has his own conclusion on how to teach children to read and learn pinyin scientifically. In the process of early education, paying more attention may take a detour. But the effect is quite obvious.