It is not advisable to teach children to read before they are 4 years old.
Parenting experts believe that 0~3 years old is the key period of children's early education, but literacy is best carried out in the "literacy sensitive period" after 4 years old.
Before the child is 3 years old, the memory mode is mainly graphic memory, and the child's ability to distinguish words is very weak. It can be said that a child looking at a word is exactly the same as looking at a picture. Do not distinguish between strokes and structures of words, and do not understand the meaning of words.
In this way, letting children know a word is only a mechanical and rough understanding from the outline. Careful observation will reveal that although children once knew some words, if they don't often review and consolidate them through picture books, pictures, wall charts, etc. They will slowly forget them.
Children in this period, parents can play word games with their children with some literacy cards, such as magnetic literacy cards, magnetic Oracle Bone Inscriptions game cards, baby puzzle cards and other magnetic early education products produced by Youliyou Magnetic Technology Co., Ltd..
As children enter the age of 3, thinking in images begins to develop. At this time, they began to have a preliminary understanding of the shape of words, and they could distinguish the general differences between words, but they could not really understand the strokes, structure and meaning of words.
After nearly a year's growth, children's abstract thinking began to sprout, and the real substantive development was about five years old. Many young parents will find that when their children reach the age of 5, they suddenly feel sensible, which is actually the result of the development of abstract thinking.
Abstract thinking means that children can not only distinguish the differences between different things through tangible things, but also understand the deep meaning of one thing. The reason to cultivate children's interest in literacy after the age of 4 is to make full use of children's abstract thinking development.
When children understand the strokes, structures and meanings of words, guide them to pay attention to words. Through literacy games, parents and children can feel the fun brought by the word world.
When children feel the rich content contained in words, their interest will increase a little. If young parents can make use of their children's interest in words in time and constantly guide their children to pay attention to words that can be seen everywhere, children will change from unconsciously paying attention to words to consciously finding words in life.
In this way, through guidance and inspiration, children can constantly understand and accumulate commonly used Chinese characters, laying the foundation for cultivating reading interest in the next step.
Children should not be allowed to write with pens before the age of 6.
Despite the popularity of computers, writing is getting farther and farther away from people's lives. As a way to develop intelligence, it is common for parents to teach their children to pick up the pen early. However, parenting experts have made it clear that it is not conducive to children's future growth to teach children to write early, especially before the age of 6.
Experts explained that children's hands usually don't mature until they are seven or eight years old, but before they are six years old, they are all "fleshy". When they hold a pen, they can only hold it like a fist, and their fingertips hold the nib inward. Such a hand holding a pen will block their sight, which will inevitably lead to the posture of reading paper and writing. If this is the case for a long time, it will bury the hidden danger of myopia for children.
Some old teachers who have been engaged in related education for more than ten years also believe that it is difficult for children to learn to write early, not only to maintain the correct posture, but also to write powerful and beautiful words with limited grip. In addition, parents themselves don't understand the stroke order of some Chinese characters, which is easy to cause mistakes in children's strokes and stroke order. These three kinds of adverse effects are like "pulling out the seedlings to encourage them" for children, which is not desirable.
Senior teachers remind young parents to teach their children to read before the age of 6. Shop names and signs on the road can become natural teaching materials for life, which can arouse children's interest more than rigid literacy cards. After the age of 6, children can be properly taught to learn to write, but the principle of "seeking quality rather than quantity" must be followed, and writing failure must be strictly rewritten. But when the strength of children's wrists and arms is not fully developed, the writing time should be controlled. For the first 65,438+0 months, it is advisable to spend a quarter of an hour at a time, and then gradually increase.
Most importantly, whether teaching literacy or learning to write, parents should create a relatively relaxed environment for their children, so as not to make them lose interest in Chinese characters, which will adversely affect classroom learning and future growth.
Teaching children to read should be good at combining their interests. For example, children like toys. Teach children some words related to toys when they play. If children like toy cars, they can be taught words such as driving, braking, steering wheel, wheels, engine and starting. It is more efficient for children to learn literacy while playing games, because children are eager to know more about toys they are interested in or how to play them.