How do you let your child talk about picture books by themselves?
We can explain from the two entry points of "teaching content" and "teaching form".
Teaching content
First, help children clarify their thinking and highlight the main line of the story
If the storyline is complicated and the background lays too much character introduction, it will affect the child's refinement of key information.
Take the picture book "Little Gecko Borrowing Tail" as an example. There are pictures and content on each page of the picture book, and we don't need to explain every detail in the picture, nor do we need to read it verbatim according to the text in the book. You can refer to the following steps to help your child clarify their thinking and highlight the main content.
The reference steps are as follows:
1. Streamline the inner page of the story and simplify the storyline.
2. Before telling a story, highlight the name of the picture book.
- The story we're telling today is called "The Little Gecko Borrows Its Tail." A small snake bit off the little gecko's tail.
3, use white paper to paste the words on the page, the words on the picture do not need to be displayed on the paper, parents can say it.
- The little gecko is going to borrow a tail. The little gecko found the little fish first, and the little fish did not lend it its tail. The little gecko found the woodpecker again, but the woodpecker did not lend it its tail.
- The little gecko then finds the old scalper, but the old scalper does not lend him his tail. Finally, the little gecko found the swallow, but the swallow did not lend it its tail either.
4, first summarize the process and results of things, do not present the dialogue process, the purpose is to reduce the difficulty of storytelling, so we just began to maintain the original story line, do not add causality.
- When the little gecko returns home, he has a new tail.
In summary, the story framework of this issue can be summarized as:
1. Statement of events
A small snake bit off the little gecko's tail.
2. Problem solving process
He first asked the little fish to borrow the tail, and the little fish did not lend the tail to it.
He found the woodpecker to borrow its tail again, and the woodpecker did not lend it its tail.
Then he found the old scalper to borrow the tail, and the old scalper did not lend the tail to it either.
Finally he found the swallow to borrow the tail, and the swallow did not lend the tail to it.
3. Results
The little gecko grew a new tail on its own.
2. Ask questions
In the form of a fill-in-the-blank dialogue, it revolves around the main idea.
Taking the above story framework as an example, the orange font part is the part that the child needs to fill in the blanks, of course, the blank part is not limited to the orange font, which can gradually increase the length of the fill-in sentence to help the child remember the story content.
Third, independent storytelling
As children become more familiar with the content of the story, they can try to let the child read the book and tell the story independently.
Teaching format
Storytelling is not just about relaying the stories you hear (see) through verbal expression.
There are two roles in the storytelling situation, the speaker and the listener, and the storyteller needs to observe the listener's reaction in the process of telling in order to form an interactive situation of storytelling.
Therefore, parents need to pay attention to the following 2 points in the process of storytelling.
First, the location and height of the storybook determine the form of interaction
If you put the storybook on the table, when the child is telling, it is difficult to achieve the transition from book to person in the first eye attention, in addition, it is also necessary to turn the storybook to the direction of the listener before telling.
So here are two pictures:
The above figure is correct, but the way the following figure is not recommended.
Second, add expressions and body language when telling stories
This not only makes the story content more interesting, but also improves the problem that children can only tell stories.
For example:
Whenever it comes to small animals that do not lend their tails to the little geckos, parents can make disappointed expressions and wave their hands.
In this way, when children tell stories, they will also imitate the expressions and actions of parents to make the story more vivid.