Professor Tao Delin of Wuhan University once commented on the current situation of Chinese teaching:
Teenagers should take advantage of their young age and good memory to read more famous books and increase their reading experience.
Even Cao Wenxuan, the winner of the Andersen Prize, expressed a similar view: textbooks provide few texts, so reading only the texts can't expand the reading range, and it can't really improve Chinese literacy.
At present, children's reading is limited to textbooks, and the improvement of Chinese performance is still far away. Parents should not only expand their children's reading, but also grasp their children's reading sensitive period.
Children's reading sensitive period: Harvard research proves that children are in a reading sensitive period between the ages of 4 and 5, which is easy to cultivate children's reading habits.
By the age of 4, children will be interested in all kinds of elements with words, pictures and lines because of the development of their brains. Children draw with their fingers and like to let their parents tell stories. Although they can't read, they keep turning pages. These are all signs of a sensitive reading period.
Children's sensitive reading period is generally around 4 years old, and it will be earlier if they are smart, and generally will not exceed 6 years old. Because the development speed of the brain slows down after the age of 6, the synapses in the brain are no longer as active as during the age of 4-5, so it is difficult for children to develop reading habits. Parents must grasp the golden period of reading before their children are 6 years old.
Benefits of reading to children: 1. Improve concentration.
Children's concentration is affected by their reading state. Reading in sensitive reading period will concentrate children's attention and lay a good foundation for their subsequent habit formation.
Long-term persistence will make children more attentive to their work. Both study and career need to be serious, and the premise of seriousness is concentration.
2. Increase children's reading.
In the sensitive period of reading, the types of books prepared by parents will affect the size of children's reading surface. The story in the book is something they have never experienced, and it will also bring them different emotional experiences. Reading behavior in the sensitive period of reading will bring more curiosity to children.
Chen Si, a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University School of Education: In the latest educational intervention experiment, family parent-child reading has a far-reaching impact on children's in-depth reading comprehension and word accumulation.
Do three things well to improve children's reading ability 1. The family creates the reading range.
Parents should set an example if they want their children to develop reading habits. Read books around your children every day, prepare some picture books or children's books for them, and let them follow their parents' example. Or set up a study room at home, and prepare a small bookshelf for children, which only contains some books that he can understand, and try not to disturb him when he is reading.
Over time, children will gradually enjoy reading in this subtle atmosphere. And parents should expand the types of books when preparing books, so that children can increase the accumulation of reading surfaces in different types of reading.
Prepare books according to age.
Harvard's research team sampled from early education institutions in Shenzhen and analyzed the family data of nearly 1,000 children aged 0-3. Each family has an average of 50 books, but children don't spend much time on reading.
Therefore, parents should prepare different kinds of books for children of every age, such as:
At the age of 2-3, parents should prepare some pictures-based stories, so that children can take pictures as the main ones;
When you are 3-4 years old, prepare some picture stories with text assistance, so that children's attention can be shifted to the text and lay the foundation for subsequent reading.