But what should children read? How to read it? Is it really understood by everyone?
Shallow reading and deep reading
First of all, I want to know two words with my parents: shallow reading and deep reading.
As the name implies, shallow reading is like eating fast food, such as fragmented mobile phone reading and reading books and newspapers for a few minutes; And deep reading can be said to be systematic chewing, digestion and absorption.
Traditionally, parents think that it is difficult for children, especially young children, to learn systematically because of cognitive problems. The sources of knowledge they need should be cartoons, pictorial, fairy tales and so on.
However, the problem is coming. When your child suddenly comes up with a word that you don't think is commensurate with his age, for example, my three-year-old son suddenly throws my mobile phone into the gap between the bedside table and the wall. When I stopped in surprise, he calmly said to me, "mom, grandma has been stuffing things in this place, and your mobile phone can't fall off." I'm just giving you a' demonstration', okay? " I looked at him in surprise and couldn't believe my ears. "What did you just say to me?" "Show me!" Answer more clearly and louder.
I'm sure that the word "demonstration" has never appeared in Qiao Hu and Piggy Peggy, which he often watches, and I shouldn't mention it when I tell bedtime stories. However, his use of this word today is very appropriate. It should have been overheard by adults, or from the film and television programs watched by adults.
I believe many parents have had this experience. A child will suddenly come up with a word, which you think is a word that he can't master at his age. Or he will ask some questions that you can't answer, which can be said to be a collision between children and our knowledge. These knowledge conflicts are far from being resolved by reading a few fairy tales and educational cartoons.
You may ask, how old is he? Can he understand those complicated theories you told him?
The answer is: yes! Of course, maybe not now, right away, right away.
Even if he was playing with toys when you told him, even if he was absent-minded, he would get what he wanted from it.
Therefore, it is not that children can only apply to shallow reading. Some systematic knowledge "deep reading" can be understood by listening and reading. Children's reading can supplement deep reading and shallow reading.
What do children read?
In Three Amethyst and Thousand Poems, ancient children's reading materials in China, the opening words are not "one, two, three" and "goose"; Among the "smart tigers" of two-year-old children, Wang Anshi's January Day has appeared. What is "Tu Su"? How to pronounce the word "bend"? I also learned at the same time as my two-year-old child.
So, what can children read?
Children's books should be selected by parents and given to him the essence of human history and the best content of human civilization.
In other words, we don't need to deliberately arrange reading materials according to the age of children, as indicated on some products, just 3-6 years old. Are these books not suitable for children aged 2 or 7?
Children have their own ways to collect and understand knowledge. What he needs is a knowledge environment. Just like a garden of knowledge, full of colorful flowers. What parents need is to put it in and let him look around, instead of planting low sunflowers beside a path and letting him pass by, because you think he can only see sunflowers, and sunflowers without thorns are safer.
How do children read?
In the stage of children's illiteracy and pinyin, listening to nature is a main way for children to read.
Audio-visual programs can be listened to, and parents can read aloud and tell stories.
Nowadays, many parents are busy with work, and they are unwilling or don't have much time to accompany their children to read and play. The market came into being and a series of such products were developed and produced. Cartoons, audio programs, point readers and other commodities are dazzling.
A friend once told me that my child is fine. Give him a reading machine and let him sit there and do a little bit. I can do my own thing without moving for two or three hours.
This sentence always makes me feel a little unpleasant. My friend is an ordinary office worker like me. I understand the hardship of going to work and the "pain" of taking care of children. Several times, I fell asleep while playing with my son at night.
However, if the task of children's reading is completely given to a machine, I disagree. No matter how good the sound of the machine is, the machine knows more than we do, and the language is smoother and the explanation is more thorough. I still insist on my point of view that children need their parents to accompany them to study.
First of all, parent-child reading and accompanying reading can enhance the affection between parents and children. If you can't see him at work, you can leave him at home and sleep with him at night. Where did you get the time to communicate with your children?
Experiments show that parents' voices are more easily accepted by children than mechanical voices, and parents' love and companionship convey him more knowledge than mechanical voices.
Secondly, parent-child reading and companion reading can enhance children's understanding and memory of knowledge. Children and parents have more exchanges and discussions. This kind of communication and discussion is two-way, and the transfer of knowledge is two-way, with response and feedback; And mechanical sounds rarely interact with children. Knowledge transfer with response and feedback must be more profound than one-way transfer.
Finally, reading, the most important harvest should be to cultivate children's interest in reading and cultivate children's habit of consciously reading independently. Rather than simply aiming at learning a few words and ancient poems. The companionship and guidance of parents will undoubtedly isolate the "bad" things that are not suitable for children to read, and choose the best civilization, the best knowledge and the best words for children. At the same time, encourage children, accompany children, create a warm and relaxed reading psychological environment for children, let children absorb, precipitate and accumulate in a relaxed way, entertain and amuse themselves inadvertently, and finally achieve the effect of accumulation.