Children naturally like to listen to stories, and picture books are the most suitable form of books for children to read. Therefore, as long as the method is proper and the books selected are appropriate, it is no problem for children to fall in love with picture books and read them. For children who have just come into contact with picture books, when choosing books for TA, they should first start with interesting picture books. After children fall in love with reading, they should choose picture books with diverse contents and themes to broaden their reading horizons.
We have compiled a bibliography of "entry-level picture books for all ages" for your reference.
My baby is less than two years old and can't talk very well. Is it necessary for me to show TA a picture book?
It's never too late to read picture books to your baby. Of course, the sooner you start, the better. The baby's task as a child is to eat, drink and be merry. Of course, when the baby is eating, drinking and having fun, we can't be in a daze. Reading with the baby at this time is a very good choice for both the baby and the mother.
Books for your baby can be cloth books, toy books and pop-up books. Don't stop talking to your baby just because he can't talk. Babies in this period, reading is not the purpose, they regard reading as a game, that is, talking to their babies, turning over books and doing physical exercise, which is not only an emotional exchange, but also can promote their language development. Pu Pulan has many picture books for reference.
Reading can help children accumulate vocabulary, stimulate imagination and develop language communication skills. The more parents talk to their children, the stronger their language communication skills will be. Parents should try to read more books and talk to their babies more, even when they push their cars to take them shopping, feed them and even change diapers. A nagging mother is very important to the baby's language development!
3. I have been showing my baby picture books for some time, and I haven't found any obvious progress or changes in TA. Is it because my method is wrong or other reasons?
Reading is not an immediate thing, it needs long-term persistence. Compared with children going to early education centers for training, such as art classes, children may have learned some painting skills, but the effect of reading can not be seen overnight. As Sun Lili, an early childhood reading consultant, once said in his lecture, reading is neither Tylenol nor Contek, so it can't be effective 24 hours a day. Reading is more like ginseng, like bird's nest, which brings lifelong nourishment to children. Keep reading to your children, and you will be surprised if you are not careful. As we usually say: read picture books together, enjoy reading, and enjoy the fun of parents and children wholeheartedly!
4. Some picture books have few words, while others have no words. How can I read them to my children?
Don't underestimate children's ability to read pictures. When many parents got a picture book without words, they were absent-minded and began to wonder: I can't read it. Will the child understand? Of course! This is precisely the beauty of picture books. Picture books are books that tell stories with pictures. We are used to reading a story through words, but children can't read it. Those photos are their password to enter the story country. If you get a book without words, you can't read it. You might as well let your children tell you. Maybe your children will give you a lot of ideas and discoveries. You can also watch Sun Lili's lecture videos on our website. Teacher Sun has wonderful guidance on how to say and read picture books without words.
Introduction to picture books without words recommended: ten small clouds
Baby at a young age: You can practice counting through this wordless picture book and understand the concept of counting through the increase and decrease of clouds.
Babies over three years old: You can enrich a complete story through the story between Xiaoyun and small animals in this wordless picture book.
Picture books recommended for older silent babies: Chicken and Fox, Snowman, Crazy Tuesday and DreamWorks No.7.
5. When reading picture books, in order to let children read more words, should they process them one by one with their fingers?
(1) For children who are new to picture books, parents are not advised to take their children to read word by word. From the operational point of view, it will destroy the continuity of reading and affect the happiness of reading. Literacy is not the ultimate goal of our reading, as Matsuzaki, the father of Japanese picture books, said: picture books are used to feel happy.
(2) For preschool children, parents want their children to read quickly through picture books. When they get a picture book, they might as well read it with their children first and then refer to it with them. In fact, literacy is a natural process for children who read picture books since childhood. They read more books and read more words, so they gradually become familiar with them. Like our neighbor next door, it's strange that we haven't known each other for a long time.
6. The child already knows many words. Can TA read the picture book without accompanying her?
There is still a distance between being literate and being able to read independently, just like sometimes getting an ancient prose. Sometimes we know every word, but we don't know the meaning of the article. For children, the same is true for independent reading, which requires not only literacy, but also a certain amount of life and experience accumulation. Moreover, reading with children is also a good parent-child game. For children, this is a great enjoyment. In this sense, reading with children is not just "reading". Don't hesitate to read aloud to your children with them!
If we haven't heard stories, it will be difficult for us to enter the stage of reading by ourselves ... Therefore, reading stories to children is the only process to help children become real readers ... Picture books are the most natural channel for fresh readers to enter the literary world. -aidan chambers, create a reading environment for children.
7. Children always like to read a book again and again. How should we guide them?
Children like to read a book repeatedly, which is a common phenomenon of many children. For children, some books are really endless. Children like reading a book, perhaps because it meets their needs to some extent, or gives them a sense of security, or because they think it is interesting. It doesn't matter. If children want to read, they can read with them. Let children feel the joy of reading, isn't that what we want? Reading should be a happy thing, there is no need to be too serious. Put aside the educational significance of the deep-rooted truth in our minds and return the original simple happiness of reading to children.
We have the habit of reading picture books to our children every day, but we are still hesitant to buy or borrow them.
For babies who don't read much at an early age, parents can consider buying picture books for their babies, which are not very expensive.
When the baby grows up, he needs to read a lot of books, and the quantitative change will have a qualitative change. The rich collection of books in the picture library provides the baby with the opportunity to read. By borrowing, parents can not only provide their children with various picture books with rich themes, but also save a sum of money, so that children can read more picture books with less money. When you meet a picture book that children especially like and have collection value, you should consider buying it home, so that the collection is classic. Not only can you save space, but you won't miss the classics.
9. When reading a picture book to a child, should I explain the truth in the picture book to the child, or ask the child more "why"?
I don't know if you have such an experience. When I was a child, my parents promised to take us to the park or zoo. Before going, if we are specifically told: pay attention to observation and come back to write a good composition. Will our happiness and expectation be discounted and will we play with trepidation? Let the happiness of reading return to reading itself, and let children feel pure happiness from reading. Of course, in the process of reading, we can communicate with children, just like chatting. In fact, this process can also promote children's language development and increase their knowledge, which is also a kind of growth and progress. It's just that we should pay more attention, do more homework, and think more about how to study better with our children, so as to be a good lamplighter for children to read, and let reading bring children a quiet nourishment.
10, reading picture books to children every day, sometimes it's really tiring. Can I play the audio of picture books for my children on the computer instead of reading them?
Again, for children, the voices of parents are the most beautiful in the world. Even if we can't read the words clearly, when parents and children read together, it's not just reading, but also a two-way communication process. As a mother once said, she once asked her children whether the story told by her mother was better or that told by her aunt on the computer. The baby said: of course, the mother speaks well, and the aunt who tells stories in the computer won't hold the baby.
Meanwhile, through the medium of picture books, parents and children can play, cry and laugh with their children. In this respect, picture books do give children and parents the greatest communication channels and space.
In addition, for an inappropriate example, which do you think is more enjoyable, listening to a superstar concert or listening to a record in person?
Of course, I really don't have time. Listening to audio is much better than telling them stories. However, as long as we can spare twenty minutes or even ten minutes to read this story with our children, let's do it ourselves! Children will feel love and warmth from our voices and hugs, and this kind of beauty will accompany them all their lives.