Reading is the greatest asset of a child's life. It is not too early to cultivate children's reading habits, but as long as you start, it is not too late.
But children who do not read much must be shallow, written knowledge can not satisfy children's curiosity and insight to explore the world, and well-informed and knowledgeable children are full of poetry.
Experienced parents will cultivate their children's reading habits, do not let children lose on insight! So, how to cultivate children's reading habits?
01
Read a paper book
Let children read paper books, rather than "listening books" in various media, mobile phones, pads, and online books. True reading is reading paper books, and true classics are also accumulated in a vast sea of paper books. Although the amount of information in digital media is very large, it has not gone through a relatively long content precipitation and screening process like the paper book from writing, revision to editing into a book, and the quality is still inferior to that of paper books on the whole.
Children do not pay attention to lectures in class, do homework, write, play, sit still, and cannot sit still, in the final analysis, it is the child's lack of concentration. Start to train children to read, and when children find the joy of reading, learn to immerse themselves in books for half an hour, an hour or even more, he will become a "calm" baby who plays wholeheartedly, learns wholeheartedly, and reads wholeheartedly.
02
Don't call books "extracurricular books"
The books read by school-age children are called "extracurricular books", implying that "in the classroom" is important, "outside the classroom" is not so important, "in the classroom" is preferred, and "outside the classroom" is lower.
Now the school emphasizes reading, and only says that children read books, rather than reading "extracurricular books". So from now on, the three words "extracurricular books" will be removed from the family vocabulary, and also from the educational concepts of parents and parents.
Reading is reading, it is a good way of life, and it is just as important as children going to school to get an education and adults trying to develop their careers.
Tell your children that "books make our lives richer, let us know more things that we have not personally experienced, let us better understand the world, let us ...", do not tell children "the more you read, the better you will learn to achieve", "the more you read, the better you will write".
In short, let children subtly understand the beauty of reading, rather than a good and unimportant thing outside of learning achievements, or a new task that has to be done outside of school.
03
Build your child's own bookshelf
Don't care how small the room is, give the child a bookshelf of his own, and if the conditions are available, give the child a "study" of his own.
This is the form and the method. When a child has a "belonging" bookshelf like he has his own toy shelf, it will be easier for him to build a sense of affinity with his books, and it will be easier to pick up books to read at any time.
When a child has a bookshelf, he must slowly teach him to organize the bookshelf and arrange the books in different categories. Don't underestimate this "small library member" work, in the process of sorting out books, children will find new points of interest from the books they have already read, and tidying up the bookshelf is also cultivating his ability to classify, summarize and organize.
04
Give the child the right to choose books
Adults should accompany their children to buy books at the beginning, guide children to learn to judge what kind of books are good enough and what kind of books are not good enough.
Give your child some basic book selection principles, and then let the child choose by himself, you will find that the child is very good at choosing books, and what he chooses is suitable for his age to read, and the quality is not bad.
It's a bit like eating, if you keep telling your child at the dinner table that this is delicious, you eat this, that is not nutritious, that is junk food, you don't eat. Then soon you will have a child who does not eat this and does not eat, who has a poor appetite and is thin. Let the child choose what to eat, decide how much to eat, and the child will be more likely to eat and be more robust. The same goes for reading.
05
Don't plan
Don't make a "reading plan" for your child, and don't pretend to do a reading plan "with your child", weekly, monthly, semester, annual, no plan. Let the child read at will, where to read, what to read, and then read what to read.
In terms of reading things, the more adults let go, the better. Children will read day after day, to establish their own reading interest and reading logic, as long as adults do not interfere, do not force the child to make plans, hard to recommend "good books" to children, children will establish their own, rich reading world, adults to do, just appreciate and "do not limit the budget to buy books" support.
06
No target
Never set a "reading goal" for your child, and don't pretend to be a reading goal "with your child". Do not require children to read how many books a month and a year, do not require children to take reading notes, do not require children to write after reading feelings, do not require children to copy "good words and good sentences", and do not see whether children have written more beautiful compositions because of reading. Don't set any goals, just read.
Once a goal is set, reading becomes a task, and the fun is not to say that there is nothing, but also greatly reduced. Even the goals set by adults will directly scare children, making children tired and feel that reading is a terrible and disgusting thing.
07
Actively participate in discussions
Don't take the initiative to discuss the book with your child, but when your child takes the initiative to bring up the topic in the book, actively and reluctantly participate in the discussion. Regardless of whether the questions raised by children are naïve or biased, they do not criticize or deny, but only contribute their own views as equal participants in the discussion, just like holding a "brainstorming" group discussion with team members.
Parents who want their children to fall in love with reading, when their children first show interest in discussing and sharing with adults, they should treat themselves as children and actively participate in the discussion initiated by their children. You will find that the stories, plots, allusions, associations that children have come to hand, and comparisons that are not marginal are much richer than you can tell.
Moreover, the more interested the adults are in participating in the discussion, the stronger the interest in reading the children, which is part of the sense of accomplishment that children get from reading.
08
Parents have good reading habits
There is no need to elaborate on this. Adults only watch mobile phone and computer TV series, children will not love to read; Adults see books and say that they are expensive, and children dare not learn to buy books by themselves; Adults do not happily share the results of reading, and children do not enthusiastically initiate reading-related discussions.
In fact, adults do not like to read literature books, history books, psychological books, other serious topics of the book does not matter, there are relaxed travel books, food books can be read ah, open volume is beneficial, as long as you give yourself some time to start reading, fun will jump out.
Disclaimer: This article is from the "ABC Micro Classroom" and reprinted for the purpose of transmitting information and learning.