In this difficult situation, a report on "children's literacy" in a Beijing newspaper immediately lost the strong concern 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. This newspaper will continue to express relevant views on issues that readers care about, such as whether children should be literate, whether they can be literate at high speed, where is the superstitious basis of right brain literacy, how to teach children in primary schools after they are literate, and how to go to primary schools when they are illiterate.
This newspaper's discussion on "kindergarten literacy" has lost the strong concern of readers in the whole province and even the whole country. With the deepening of the discussion, the topics (problems) of the readers have also begun to be refined. Today, this newspaper will list the issues discussed one by one, hoping to stimulate your thinking. Among them, the "opposition party" refers to the party that supports literacy in kindergartens; "Active" refers to people who are in favor of literacy in kindergartens.
Starting from kindergarten
1. Does it deviate from the educational syllabus?
Against:
Wang Yuanchang of a kindergarten: "Most of the children in kindergarten are 3-6 years old, and their important obligation is to play. The obligation of kindergarten is to develop children's basic talents through games. Let children learn Chinese characters all day, parents and teachers will focus on the number of children's literacy, which will easily deviate from the outline of one-sided development of quality education for children formulated by the state. "
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Literacy is a fundamental talent and quality, and it is also a very important fundamental talent and quality. "Play" and literacy are not contradictory. Literacy is not the exclusive content of kindergarten. If literacy can be skillfully combined with other games and realized together, what's wrong? Whether we can deviate from the purpose of education lies not in what we learn, but in how we learn.
2. What's the advantage of a child 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 postpone reading after literacy, and the accumulation of knowledge will be much faster. Children will know and understand things earlier, and their intelligence will be lost and developed earlier. At the seminar on literacy education for preschool children 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, so it was useless and harmful for children to read as early as possible.
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 1967, the IQ of children who start learning local Chinese characters at the age of five can reach 95, four 120 and three 130. (Note: IQ criterion, below 80 is stupid, and above 120 is very smart).
Third, superstitious people find 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 recognized that children can develop their brains through early literacy.
3. Can a child's little hand write?
Against:
Teacher Zhang of a kindergarten: "If you can read, you must write. Kindergarten children are small, 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. If you write with a pen for a long time, it will cause the child's hand bone to deform and even affect his vision, leading to premature hyperopia. "
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Can't you write and read? It is a misunderstanding that literacy must go hand in hand with writing. In fact, from the first day of a child's birth, "literacy" began. The first thing I learned was the pronunciation of Chinese characters. I listen to them and learn them 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 at the right time 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 or read, so they can read quickly together and independently. Teaching by stages is a superstitious literacy method. It is not too late to teach writing until the children grow up and enter primary school.
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. It is important to teach children the one-sided development of music and art and how to treat people, so as to better connect with primary education. If four or five-year-old children start learning monotonous Chinese characters, it will be counterproductive. They will form children's weariness of learning from an early age and affect lifelong education. "
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Chinese characters themselves are not monotonous, but the learning methods are monotonous. So monotony is a problem of teachers' educational methods, not Chinese characters. If there is such a way, every Chinese character will be transformed into a black cartoon image, which is exactly the same as the shape of Chinese characters and closely connected with the meaning of Chinese characters, so that children will still be monotonous when they see these "words"? If every cartoon image moves into a cartoon, will children still feel monotonous after reading it? Isn't this the way to learn Chinese characters through the animation of "Picking up Characters in the Wheat Field" recently? Chinese character teaching in kindergarten should make children learn happily, which is the basic standard of children's literacy and the important content of children's literacy teaching.
5. Can children accept the pressure of knowing 4000 Chinese characters?
Against:
Liu Yuanchang of a kindergarten: "Now primary and secondary schools are advocating burden reduction. If kindergarten teaches children to learn Chinese characters, does it increase their burden in disguise? Kindergartens should provide children with a happy and caring growth environment. Guo advocates that kindergarten children should know 4000 Chinese characters. Even after six years of primary school, they can't learn so many words. How can a child aged 3 to 6 accept it? "
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Reducing the burden is superstitious, not conscious. Reducing the burden is to reduce those useless and burdensome things in the current educational content. If the most important content is regarded as not learning and children are allowed to let nature take its course, they will go 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 when their intelligence is at its best. 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 start reading independently. There are only 65,438+0,000 Chinese characters in the textbook "Picking up Chinese Characters in the Wheat Field", so children can easily master the whole book, and reading without pinyin is not too troublesome. Compared with other children who have never learned Chinese characters, they are obviously ahead.
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 that many education experts have summed up for many years. Why doesn't our country promote literacy teaching to kindergarten stage? If literacy education is promoted to kindergartens, 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 stepped down, he immediately announced the educational 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. Can children read and produce superstitious evidence?
Against:
Parent Mr. Liu: "It is certainly a bad thing that children can read, but they learn so many Chinese characters in a very short time, fearing that children can't accept it. Also, can you recognize so many Chinese characters? Is there any superstitious 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 modern private schools, it is not uncommon for children to read at the age of four or five. 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 ancient children wrote novels at the age of five. This is not a magical power. Any child can do it with a little practice. If he misses the critical period of his childhood, his learning potential will be annihilated.
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. If you are literate for the sake of literacy, you can still read after reading the words. Needless to say, children and even adults will be interested. If children are guided to read more books in primary school, they will not be less interested, but 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. If 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. Actually, there is no need to argue. If anything is done in the wrong way, the good consequences 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. Consciously following the trend is a common problem of many parents now. 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 learn in the favorite way that children can bear. You don't have to pursue how much you have learned, and you don't have to look at whether other children recognize more words than your own children. The key is whether children can study happily and sow more important things that we ignore in the process of literacy.