Bruner, a famous American psychologist, said: "The best stimulus for learning is interest in learning materials." There is no doubt that interest plays an important role in improving children's academic performance and future development. The teaching practice of countless successful parents proves that it is very important to cultivate children's interest in learning by scientific methods. Therefore, as parents, we should not only pay attention to the cultivation of children's interest in learning, but also master a set of scientific and effective training methods. The following methods to cultivate children's interest in learning are the experiences of successful parents.
1, let the charm of fairy tales attract children.
Psychologists believe that children's love for fairy tales shows that they don't want to be bystanders. By listening to adults telling stories and reading by themselves, children can exert their imagination, participate in and arrange stories in their own way, and reflect and share the wishes and worries of the protagonists in fairy tales.
A foreign university once conducted a survey on fairy tales, and found that children like listening to fairy tales and reading them by themselves, mainly listening to their mothers, followed by their fathers, grandparents and other relatives. They not only like to listen to new fairy tales, but also like to listen to stories told by their parents dozens of times.
Fairy tales appeal to children. They will not only pester adults to tell them, but also try to read books by themselves and experience their interest in learning initially.
2. Stimulate children's interest in language by reading calligraphy.
The range of books to be read aloud should start with some fantastic stories and rhythmic songs, which can attract children and concentrate their attention. The books you choose should be literary and have long-term reading value, such as Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, Little Match Girl, Sleeping Beauty, Alice in Wonderland, etc. If the contents of the books are long, such as Journey to the West, etc.
Vivid and interesting calligraphy reading can stimulate children's language development and inspire their creative thinking.
After children learn to read by themselves, parents should not give up their responsibilities prematurely, but read aloud to their children until they enter middle school. Because most children are better at listening comprehension than reading comprehension before 12 years old, the lessons children get from "listening" books are extremely obvious.
3. Help children choose good books.
An educator said: children need books that suit their interests, ages and abilities, and they also need to change their tastes from time to time. Preschool children aged 3 to 6 like fairy tales, poems, animal stories and books related to their daily lives, and some catchy children's songs will be especially favored by them; Children aged 6 to 9 like to choose reading materials according to their own interests. After they can start reading by themselves, they will choose some more in-depth books for them to develop their interests. 9- 12-year-old children like humorous sketches, complex stories, thrilling and bizarre novels, etc.
4. Put the books where children can easily get them.
Some parents buy books for their children, but they are afraid that their children will break and get dirty. After reading them, they will put them away or put them out of their reach. Some parents keep asking their children to do this and that when they are absorbed in the plot in the book. None of this is desirable. The best way for parents to cultivate their children's reading habits is to hide the tangible in the invisible and the intentional in the unintentional. For example, parents can put some books in the room, living room or kitchen at will, so that children can read them inadvertently, thinking that they have found the treasure and read them happily. This kind of self-discovery and interest in reading will definitely make children jump with joy.
In the process of guiding children to consciously read and learn, parents should seize the opportunity to lead their children to read materials and consult books in libraries, bookstores, reference rooms, bookstores and other places, so as to absorb the nutrition of knowledge extensively, and encourage children to gradually learn to explore the treasure house of knowledge independently and feel the enrichment and happiness of acquiring knowledge.