The topic of children's literacy and whether children should be literate has always been a big debate in the field of early education. For many years, we have been arguing for a few words, but we have never been able to have the opposite idea. Assuming there is no argument, no problem. There are many arguments, which make every parent's heart very contradictory. Don't let children read, other children are reading; Literacy, but there are so many "experts" in favor of children's literacy, it is really impossible to choose. Experts have nothing to say after eating, arguing endlessly, which is a pastime and a business need. The worst is Qian Qian's parents, who are miserable and can't learn well.

In this difficult situation, a newspaper in Beijing published a report on "children's literacy" and immediately lost the intense attention of all walks of life. This newspaper also discussed this for the society. Readers hold their own opinions and talk about their doubts and ideas. The questions that readers care about (Issue (Issue (Issue (Issue (Issue (Issue (Issue (Issue (Issue (Issue (Issue (Issue (Issue (Question)))) are "Should children be literate", "Can high-speed literacy be achieved", "Where is the scientific basis for right-brain literacy", etc.

This newspaper's discussion on "kindergarten literacy" has lost the intense attention of readers in the whole province and even the whole country. With the deepening of the discussion, the topics (topics (topics (topics (topics (topics (topics (topics (topics (topics (issues))) of a wide audience are also refined at the end. Today, this newspaper lists the questions (issue (issue (issue (issue (issue (issue (issue (issue (issue (question)))) one by one, hoping to stimulate your thinking. Among them, the "opposing party" refers to the party in favor of literacy in kindergartens; "Active" refers to people who are in favor of literacy in kindergartens.

Starting from kindergarten

1. Is it outside the syllabus?

Against:

Wang Yuanchang of a kindergarten: "Most of the children in kindergarten are 3-6 years old, and their urgent obligation is to play. Kindergarten's obligation is to develop children's basic talents through experiencing games. Let children learn Chinese characters all day, parents and teachers will put their bodies on the number of children's literacy, which arbitrarily deviates from the one-sided quality education outline for children formulated by the state. "

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Literacy is a basic talent and quality, and it is also a very important basic talent and quality. "Play" and literacy are not contradictory. Literacy is not the focus of kindergarten. What's wrong with assuming that literacy can be skillfully combined with other games and realized together? Whether we can deviate from the purpose of education lies not in what we learn, but in how we learn.

2. What are the advantages of children knowing so many words?

Against:

Parent Mr. Liu: "What are the benefits of children learning so many words? I can't write, learning is equal to learning in vain, and it has no effect. "

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There are too many benefits for children to read. First of all, children can delay reading after literacy, so that the accumulation of knowledge will be much faster, the age at which children know and understand things will be delayed, and their intelligence will be lost and delayed. At the seminar on preschool children's literacy education held by Children's Publishing House a few days ago, experts from Beijing and Shanghai believed that the best age for children to learn Chinese characters was three to six years old. It is beneficial and harmless for children to read as early as possible and cultivate their interest in learning.

Second, it also has the function of developing intelligence. There are many kindergartens in Tokyo, Japan that teach children to read. According to their research from the end of 1967, the IQ of children who learn some Chinese characters can reach 95 by the end of five years, 120 by the end of four years and 130 by the end of three years. (Note: IQ standard, below 80 is stupid, and above 120 is very smart).

Third, scientists have found that there are far fewer people suffering from aphasia in China and Japan than in Europe and America. This is because the English used in Europe and America is a single-brain script (the left brain remembers the sound and meaning), while the Chinese characters used in China and Japan are multi-brain scripts (the left brain remembers the sound and meaning and the right brain remembers the font). Therefore, it is a recognized ideal that children can study early and develop their brains.

3. Can a child's little hand write?

Against:

Teacher Zhang of a kindergarten: "If you can read, you must write. Kindergarten children are young, their bones are not fully developed, their hands are only a little, and their fingers are very thin. I'm afraid that Lian Bi can't control them, so they can't write. It is speculated that writing with a pen for a long time may lead to the deformation of children's hand bones, and even affect their vision, leading to premature myopia. "

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Can't you write and read? It is a misunderstanding that literacy must go hand in hand with writing. Ideally, "literacy" ends from the first day of a child's birth. The first thing I learned was the pronunciation of Chinese characters. I listen and study every day. Then I will see Chinese characters in the surrounding environment every day, and then I will learn the shapes of Chinese characters. As for how to write a word, it is realized when it is suitable for children. The first purpose of literacy in kindergarten should be reading, as long as children know how to pronounce a word and what it means. Now many new literacy methods are very suitable for this concept. For example, Picking up Characters in the Wheat Field is about children learning Chinese characters before primary school. They don't teach how to write, they teach how to read, they can read quickly and read independently together. Teaching by stages, this is the scientific literacy method, and it is not too late to wait until children grow up and enter primary school to teach writing.

From parents

It is universally acknowledged that Chinese characters are monotonous and difficult to learn. Don't children hate it?

Against:

Parent Mr. Wang: "Kindergarten provides preschool enlightenment education for children. There is an urgent need to teach children music, art and so on. And how to treat others, in order to better connect with primary education. Assuming that four or five-year-old children finally learn monotonous Chinese characters, it is very counterproductive. It constitutes a child's weariness of learning from an early age, but it affects the child's lifelong education. "

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Chinese characters themselves are not monotonous, not just tones, nor are learning methods monotonous, not just tones. Therefore, monotony is not only a question of teachers' educational methods (question (question (question (question (question (question (question))), but also a question of Chinese characters (question (question (question (question))). Suppose there is a way to make every Chinese character into a black cartoon image, which is exactly the same as the shape of Chinese characters and closely related to the meaning of Chinese characters, so that children will still be monotonous when they see these "words"? Assuming that every cartoon image will move and become a cartoon, will children still feel monotonous after reading it? Isn't this the way to learn Chinese characters in the recent animation "Picking up Characters in the Rye"? Chinese character teaching in kindergarten should make children learn happily, which is the basic standard of children's literacy and the key content of children's literacy teaching.

5. Can children bear the pressure of knowing 4000 Chinese characters?

Against:

Liu Yuanchang of kindergarten: "Now primary and secondary schools are proposing to reduce the burden. Assuming that children are taught Chinese characters after kindergarten, does it increase their burden in disguise? Kindergartens should provide children with a happy and caring growth environment. Guo proposed to let kindergarten children recognize 4,000 Chinese characters. Even if they can't learn so many words in primary school for six years, how can a child aged 3 to 6 stand it? "

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Reducing the burden is scientific, not spontaneous. Reducing the burden is to reduce those useless and burdensome things in the current educational content. Suppose we take the most important content as the burden of not learning and let the children put it down, which goes from one extreme to the other. When children miss the critical period of best learning, it is too late to learn again. When a child is three to six years old, it is the best stage to remember things. Children in kindergartens don't learn to read at the best age of intellectual development. Once this era is missed, the losses caused to children are sometimes irreparable for life. In addition, children don't need to learn 4000 Chinese characters at once, but only need to master the most basic 800 Chinese characters to read independently at the end. There are only 65,438+0,000 Chinese characters in the textbook "Picking up Chinese Characters in the Wheat Field". Children can master them all at will, and reading without pinyin is not too troublesome. Compared with other children who haven't learned Chinese characters, they obviously take the lead.

6. Can a book change the current education system?

Against:

Parent Mr. Han: "It should be reasonable for the State Education Commission to put literacy learning in primary schools. This should also be the result and experience summed up by many education experts for many years. Why doesn't the country postpone literacy teaching to kindergartens? We assume that literacy education will be postponed to kindergarten. Is this promotion too rash and inconsistent with the social tide? "

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"Difficulty in literacy" is a problem that China's basic education has not been able to overcome for the time being. It can be said that the national education department has been exploring for decades. Nowadays, many excellent literacy methods, such as "picking up words in the wheat field", are constantly being introduced, which is illustrated by the large-scale basic education reform implemented by the Ministry of Education in 38 experimental areas across the country this year. It is even more wrong to say that children's literacy is incompatible with the tide of society. 1997 in the state of the union address of the United States, American children go to school at the age of eight and surf the internet at the age of twelve. The day after Bush took office, he immediately released the education reform plan of No Child Left Behind, and made a plan to improve the literacy rate through "reading first" from kindergarten to the second grade of primary school.

7. Children can read books and produce scientific evidence?

Against:

Parent Mr. Liu: "It is a good thing that children can read, but I am afraid that children can't bear learning so many Chinese characters in a very short time." Also, can you recognize so many Chinese characters? Is there any scientific basis? "

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Whether physically or psychologically, children are at the fastest age of life development, and the speed of intellectual development and learning ability of this era are amazing. In ancient private schools, it is not uncommon for children aged four or five to study. The San Zi Jing says "English is eight years old, can recite poems, secrete seven years old, can give chess", "Tang, seven years old, is a prodigy, making orthography", which shows that a prodigy of seven or eight years old can recite poems and give poems. Bai Juyi recited poems at the age of four, and modern children write novels at the age of five. This is not a magical power. Any child can do it with a little practice. If you miss the critical period of your child, your learning potential will be buried.

8. Are you still interested in learning Chinese characters after you recognize them in kindergarten and go to primary school?

Against:

Teacher Sun from a primary school in Chengdu: "Children learn all the words in kindergarten. What else can they learn after primary school? " I know all the new words taught by the teacher. Will my interest in learning be high? "

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Let children read is not the ultimate goal, the purpose is to let children enter reading as soon as possible. Suppose you study for literacy, and you can still read after reading. Needless to say, even children and adults will lose interest. Assuming that children are guided to read more books in primary school, their interest will not decrease, but they will be more interested in entering an excellent world. The process of children's literacy is the same as that of human beings to create words and get rid of ignorance. This surprise is natural. Assuming that children are not interested in literacy and reading, it must not be their fault, but our educators' fault.

Debate, children grow up day by day, we still have to make a choice in time. In practice, there is no need to argue. If anything is done in the wrong way, good results will not be lost. Anything that goes too far will be lost because of small things. There is no need to rush to achieve high literacy, and there is no need to be anxious when other children can read. Spontaneous follow-up is a common problem of many parents today. In the critical period of children's rapid intellectual development, it is obviously not a wise choice not to learn a word. It is necessary to study properly and use the favorite methods that children can accept. You don't have to pursue how much you have learned, and you don't have to see if other children can recognize more words than their own children. The key is whether children can learn happily and gain more important things that we ignore in the process of literacy.