It is easy for children to read words, but it is not easy to understand the meaning of words, homophones and polysemous words. Is there any good way?
Chinese characters are so complicated, how to make children master Chinese characters easily in the game?
Literacy is a long-term task.
We compare the process of children learning to read to a long-distance race. Children need to progress with the development of interest and cognitive ability. It will take several years for children to be completely uninterested in Chinese characters and finally be able to read independently.
So, what is the process of literacy long-distance running?
We divide the process of children's literacy into three stages: pre-literacy stage, rough literacy stage and font analysis stage.
Pre-literacy stage: children are not interested in Chinese characters.
Children in the pre-literacy stage are usually 1~3 years old and have no interest in Chinese characters at all.
You may be depressed, how profound our Chinese character culture is, and children are not interested in Chinese characters? In fact, this is related to children's cognitive development characteristics.
Chinese characters are symbols, and symbols are representatives of concrete things, usually abstract. In children's minds, they don't have the ability to understand symbols at first, so Chinese characters are just many lines and meaningless in their eyes.
I see! So we didn't plead guilty?
Of course not. We should start with simple things, guide children to become interested in Chinese characters and discover the relationship between what we say orally and words.
Simplicity means understanding from those simple symbols. Understand traffic signs and no smoking signs ... from graphic symbols to simple words, children will gradually understand that the original black words can also be meaningful!
Rough literacy stage: children begin to know a small number of words.
When children are conscious and interested in writing, they can be taught to read. At the age of 4~5, children enter the stage of rough literacy. "Little Hedgehog Eating Chinese Characters" is suitable for children to play after this stage.
It should be noted that although children begin to learn to read, they are still limited by their brains. They can only use very rough strategies to understand some simple single characters, and those complex combined characters will throw their brains into chaos.
So children at this stage can know some words, but it is difficult to remember them.
Font analysis: children begin to know more words.
Slowly, the child enters the third stage-the stage of analyzing glyphs. By the age of five or six, when children know some characters, they will learn to analyze the glyphs and details of Chinese characters, and their literacy strategies will become more advanced.
This process is not accomplished overnight, and children are prone to make some lovely jokes. A mother shared:
My baby will read the signs on the road and sometimes read "Little Sheep"! Stars on the grain!
But it is actually a "little sheep" and a "food king"!
Sometimes she can't even tell the difference between "person" and "entrance", which really confuses me.
In fact, the baby's performance is the characteristics of children's analysis in the font stage, and they can't understand the radicals and details of Chinese characters well.
So you can take your children to pay attention to the inside of different Chinese characters and guide them to know the structural codes of Chinese characters!
Learn to read in life
The best learning process must come from life. Mom and dad should not give up the good opportunities in life, let the children find the fun of learning Chinese characters!
Is there any way to help us teach children to read?
It's a good way to show your children picture books, but if you want your children to really pay attention to words, I suggest you choose a picture book where children are familiar with stories and let them tell you.
At this time, the baby becomes passive to active. What if you can't remember the story? This is the text about reference picture books. Seize the opportunity to teach the baby to read.
Of course, you can also interact with Chinese characters and play games with them. The literacy box "Little Hedgehog Eating Chinese Characters" developed by Ai Language Team is based on the design that children can read while playing.
If you haven't figured out how to "play Chinese characters", you might as well find some inspiration in "Little Hedgehog Eating Chinese Characters", play games and read with your children.
Our mission: to make learning Chinese characters more interesting.
Teaching children to read is not for utility, but to open the door to reading for children.