Before I talk about literacy, let me talk about imagination, because how imagination develops is the key.
What is imagination?
Simply put, imagination is the ability of people to create new images in their minds on the basis of existing images.
For a simple example, children have seen and eaten apples. When you ask your child if he wants to eat apples? Even if there are no apples at home, children can imagine what apples look like through their brains.
Only the image of this apple may be seen by children, but if you ask children to draw apples, children will draw strange apples. And every apple painting that is different from the real thing is an image created by children through imagination.
Will children's literacy stifle their imagination? It is certain that it will not.
Many parents believe that early literacy will solidify children's thinking imagination, that is, when children see a word or a word, only the image of the word or the corresponding object will appear in their minds. Is that really the case? Not exactly. In my opinion, after a child is literate, it helps to exercise his observation and imagination, because his interest in literacy has a sensitive period, usually between the ages of 4 and 6, and some children will extend to around 7 years old. In the sensitive period, children will have a strong interest in large and small words that can be seen everywhere. If parents seize this period and let their children know thousands of words in two years, it will help to cultivate their reading interest.
Children communicate and read picture books through the words they know, and they will have rich imagination.
In the process of literacy, children themselves will be very keen to stimulate imagination. This kind of imagination is completely imagination. For example, children can recognize the word biscuit when they look at picture books and pictures of biscuits. At this time, it is particularly interesting if you and your child talk about cookies as a topic. If a mother says to her four-year-old daughter: Mom likes cartoon cookies best. They are crisp, sweet and delicious. ? I like to eat monkey biscuits because I like little monkeys. I can go upstairs without taking the stairs, or I can just jump on it, but it's fast. ? You see, isn't the child's imagination very interesting?
How to protect children's imagination is what parents should focus on, and many parents can't do it.
Children's imagination is completely different from that of children or adults, because children learn less textbook knowledge and will not be solidified by a lot of knowledge. So literacy can better stimulate children's spatial imagination. It's a pity that many parents don't have enough patience to find out the sensitive period of their children's interest in literacy in time. Because you don't care, their interest in observing words will soon be annihilated.
Don't be careless In the sensitive period of interest in literacy, children are often delighted to find a word they know, will tell their mother or father happily, and even say many wonderful words around this word. However, parents' indifference soon disappointed the children and gradually stopped paying attention to their words.
Conclusion: I have been engaged in family education research for more than ten years and have contacted many parents of excellent children. I found that parents generally pay special attention to early education. In particular, children's interest in literacy and reading have been grasped in time. At this special stage, children's thoughts are relatively simple, as long as they are interested, they will be particularly focused, and their memory of literacy or reading is amazing. At the same time, because there is no homework burden before entering primary school, parents have more time to accompany their children and protect and stimulate their imagination in the process of literacy and reading.