Early reading, as the name suggests, refers to the reading of children in the early years of school. When it comes to reading, the first thing parents think of may be reading and literacy. In fact, for preschool children, reading is a fairly broad concept. Adult reading materials are mainly words, and for young children, in addition to words, pictures and adult language are their reading materials and the basis for their text reading. Adult reading mainly relies on vision, and for young children, they touch books, thumbs and index fingers page by page, listen to adult stories, look at pictures, can find changes in things, repeat stories themselves, and express their opinions on stories belong to the category of reading. It can be said that all the reading behaviors that help young children learn, we can call them reading.
But many parents have some misunderstandings about early reading?
1, the child is so young, what books to read?
In terms of brain development, children can't remember anything when they read a book at the age of one, but reading can stimulate the neuronal development of the brain. The child's neurons have grown to 60% by the age of three, and by the age of six, they can reach 90%, and if the development of neurons in the brain is stimulated in advance, it is recommended that pregnant mothers should read to the baby, and the earlier the reading, the better. Change starts with reading, and reading starts at age zero.
2. What did you read in the book, tell me about it?
This is the utilitarian spirit of our parents at work. Parents who are too utilitarian will discourage their children from reading. What is the purpose of reading? It is not what knowledge is learned and what pictures are seen, but to cultivate children's reading habits day by day. Let the child like the book and feel the joy of reading. Only by establishing a good reading habit are you afraid that your child will not be able to learn something?
3, how do you just look at the picture and not read a word?
For example, when we adults pick up a picture book, we first look at the words and ignore the knowledge contained in the pictures. At the stage of children's 0-6 years old, the child's ability to remember pictures is more than ten times that of his or her ability to remember words; and in the primary school stage, as the number of literate people increases, this ability to read pictures will gradually decrease. However, the cultivation of the ability to read pictures from an early age and the child's future social observation, art appreciation, and instantaneous memory have a great role in promoting. So some children like to look at pictures, some children like to read words, just like some children like to eat meat, some children like to eat cooked vegetables, hobbies are different but all help children's growth.
Early reading is the basis for developing good reading habits and interests, and parents must pay attention to it.