Picture books are widely praised in the parenting circle. Almost all educational institutions and authorities will recommend parents to read picture books to their children, and stars are no exception.
Jimmy Lin, Zhang Ziyi, Huang Lei, Sun Li and other celebrity parents have repeatedly exposed photos of their children reading picture books in Weibo, and Sun Li even published a book "I Love Kindergarten" directly, recommending it to babies who want to go to kindergarten.
Huang Lei has many daughters. Because I love reading English picture books since I was a child, I can write all English scripts at the age of 8. She also collaborated with her father to translate and publish Tolkien's classic picture book "Letters from Father Christmas".
I won't go into details about the benefits of picture books here. Major stars and parenting experts have given us demonstrations, and parents may be more concerned about how to read picture books.
For illiterate preschool children, reading picture books must be guided.
Parents who have accompanied them know that reading picture books is a time-consuming process. When your baby interrupts you in the middle of reading, giving out 654.38+ 10,000 whys, turning over two pages and clamoring for another book, and reading the same book repeatedly for several days in a row, you may give out the soul torture of "why reading a book can make so many things".
Some parents simply choose smart board crossing: morning education machine, robot, point reading machine, code scanning reading ... For lazy people, technology is always improving.
But can intelligence really replace parents?
My dear mother thinks that at least when it comes to reading picture books, my parents' classes are better.
Bandu itself is a process of high-quality companionship. At a fixed time every day, you put down your mobile phone, your children put down their toys, and you sit together and concentrate on reading. At this time, your world is only each other and picture books.
Every child has his own understanding of picture books. We usually pay attention to the content of words, but children can expand their imagination through pictures. In the process of class crossing, listening to your own understanding of the content and responding in time can stimulate your imagination.
These are things that intelligence cannot accomplish.
So it is best for parents to read picture books with their children.
Many parents are reluctant to accompany their children to read picture books because it is difficult for them to cooperate when they are in class. Here are four tips to help them read the whole book more smoothly.
Children read slowly, and sometimes parents think they have finished reading the text. To understand, turn to the next page.
But at this time, the child's thinking is likely to stay on the picture on the previous page. If parents progress too fast, children will find picture books difficult to understand and will naturally reduce their interest in reading.
So leave the right to turn pages to the child, make sure he has read each page carefully, and then explain the next page to him.
When adults read a book, they naturally read the text, but in fact, the mystery of the picture book is hidden in the picture.
When my daughter Lemon was 18, she liked to tell me stories. When she tells a story, she will take out a picture book and tell me according to the picture. The story she told is completely different from the words described in the picture book, but the logic is smooth and the pictures and texts are consistent.
Looking back on reading picture books to her in the past, we always discuss the contents of the pictures first, let the children use their imagination and encourage her to guess the contents of the stories by herself.
The story she guesses is sometimes ironic. For example, when we read Guess how much I love you, she interpreted the picture as: Father Rabbit keeps exercising every day, so he grows taller. Little Nutbrown hare thought: He should love sports as much as his father.
Picture books are not math problems, and there is no standard answer. When you read the picture book directly according to the text, you deny other possibilities that children imagine.
Don't rush to read the text, and carefully look for hidden surprises in the picture with your children. Pictures are the space left by picture books for children's creativity.
Adults pay attention to efficiency, and reading always skips the cover and preface directly and goes straight to the subject.
But children are not. Growth is not in a hurry, growth is patiently polished in the details.
We are used to thinking that when we pick up a book, we will know which one it is when we see its title, while children judge the content of the book by the pictures on the front cover and back cover.
The cover of I Love Kindergarten recommended by Sun Li was so simple that I almost skipped it, but my 3-year-old daughter carefully interpreted it at that time:
There is a baby here. He is standing outside. Because the wall is behind him and he is outside. There are many children watching him from the back window and inside. There is a slide next to him. He is playing on the playground. This is a kindergarten.
I was both surprised and ashamed: surprised that she could understand the space and environment through a simple picture, and ashamed that I always taught her to finish what she started but forgot herself.
Taking the front cover and the back cover seriously reflects the attitude of starting from the beginning to the end.
Accompanying children is not about efficiency but about quality. A slow fire makes sweet malt. If you slow down, the children will have time to think carefully.
I once visited a kindergarten with a very good reputation. At that time, a small class teacher was leading the children to read The Adventures of Francis Forest. The pictures in this book are very detailed in color and content.
I walked in the kindergarten for about 20 minutes, and then I passed the door of the small class and found that the screen was still on the original page.
I asked the director curiously, "Do you usually read picture books to your children so slowly?"
The director told me: "the picture in the picture book may be swept away by adults, just looking at the key points." And children can always find what they think is interesting from different corners. The more they find, the more they like reading. Therefore, reading picture books must be slow, and children should be given enough time to discover. "
Many picture books have only a dozen pages. We think we can read them all at once, but in fact we can read them more slowly. It doesn't matter if we can't finish them all at once. Because as long as children can gain something from each reading, it is a successful reading.
In the final analysis, children's picture books are children's own reading materials. How to understand and how to use your imagination is also a child's own business, and parents can only act as guides.
Therefore, reading picture books should be more from the perspective of children, helping them to spread their thinking, rather than reading them established stories.
Behind the interesting soul is reading thousands of books and accompanying children to read picture books attentively, which is the best gift for parents to give their children.
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