After having children, the topics that friends and colleagues get together to discuss are always inseparable from children, especially the children's education, which is the theme of everyone's discussion.
For parents of children aged 3-6, the problem is often the same: in the end, do you want to teach your children something in advance, let your children recognize words in advance, and lay the foundation for primary school?
Let's talk about whether to let your child read in advance.
Do I need to make my child literate in advance?
There are definitely many different answers to this question.
Some parents say that kindergartens do not teach children to read in advance, and the young children do not let them do it, and why do they let children read in advance? Wouldn't it be nice to give your child a happy childhood?
Some parents say that the young children must let the children have a little foundation, otherwise in the first grade, the child may be the bottom of the class, and the teacher may look for you all day to catch the child to learn, saying that the child cannot keep up.
In the past, I also felt that there was no need to teach children to read in advance, and children in the first grade learned pinyin and Chinese characters, and kindergarten was the stage of cultivating habits, so that children could play well and grow well.
Therefore, my eldest really didn't learn anything in kindergarten, and it was a completely new starting point before entering the first grade.
However, within a few days of enrollment, the teacher began to communicate with me, saying that the children in the class would basically be able to read, and who had reached more than a thousand literacy levels could read independently. Let me go home and tutor my child.
Children have no foundation, it is difficult to do homework, they don't know the words, and they want me to read the questions. Kids have zero foundation, and the first grade is really too difficult.
After my second eldest was born, I began to take my child to know some simple words consciously or unconsciously, read picture books with my children every day, and tell stories to my children.
Gradually, children developed a strong interest in Chinese characters, whether they went to the street or went to the mall, as long as they saw Chinese characters, the children took the initiative to ask me what these words were.
Seeing that the child is so interested in literacy, I bought a set of "Preschool Literacy Three-dimensional Flip Book" for the child, just play as a toy, and did not deliberately teach the child, as a result, after a year or two, the child knows a lot of words, and basically can read independently after going to kindergarten.
Because the words are known and the children's interest in reading is getting stronger and stronger, I guide the children to read a lot of picture books and story books.
After the child goes to primary school, because the amount of literacy is much greater than that of his peers, it is much easier to learn, often get praise from the teacher, and the child's self-confidence has also increased a lot, and the important thing is to let me worry a lot.
Therefore, for the question of whether to let the child read in advance, I personally feel that if the child likes it and has this interest, it is still okay to identify the child. Because for some children, what they are interested in is fun, in the eyes of children who are interested in literacy, literacy is no less interesting than watching cartoons.
Parents need to pay attention to the fact that when I say literacy, I don't mean to let children pick up a pen and write one by one, there is an essential difference between literacy and writing.
You can read before the age of five, but you should not write too early.
Literacy will vary from child to child
Some parents always love to compare, add up to talk about their children, and when they hear that other people's children know more than a thousand Chinese characters at the age of 3, they feel that their children cannot be left behind. When you go home, you will start to teach your children to read, and if you can't remember, you will think that your children are stupid, so you let your children remember and write over and over again.
Such literacy has no meaning for children.
For young children, literacy can only be combined with fun and interest, so that children can play in middle school, children can be full of curiosity, this seemingly unintentional learning, is appropriate for children.
Generally speaking, it is not appropriate for children to write after the age of six, but the child's literacy age is 3-6 years old, or even earlier.
3 years old is the peak of a child's natural memory ability and overall pattern recognition ability.
Children can naturally contact and recognize Chinese characters like other objects. And children at this stage will also become interested in words.
Children aged 4 to 5 are generally literate, and the rate of literacy is no slower than that of children aged 6 to 7 years. At this stage, it is necessary to let the child have a certain amount of literacy in advance.
Of course, the situation of each child is different, some children are interested in literacy early, some children are late, and parents have to adjust according to their children's situation.
How do you get your child to read naturally?
In fact, to let children learn to read, it only takes three simple steps:
First, the text is visualized to attract children
For children aged 3-6, the Chinese characters they see are a holistic image, and toddler literacy is actually the memory of the figure. As long as the child can recognize the shapes, colors, and have a certain degree of concentration, it means that the child has the ability to read.
Children's literacy is different from writing after primary school, and children's literacy is mainly based on environmental rendering, literacy in life, literacy through games, and random literacy. There are no plans and schedule requirements, and everything is based on the interests of young children.
These literacy methods are great for preschoolers.
Card recognition
For example, take out a picture of a dog, let the child say what it is, when the child says that it is a dog, the parents can point to the words on the card and tell the child that this is the word "dog".
Literacy in the living environment
You can attach the corresponding Chinese characters to items that your child often touches. For example, pasting the word "TV" on the TV and the word "table" on the table, this seemingly random method can allow the child to turn the Chinese characters in the abstract meaning into the perception of the image meaning, without deliberate emphasis, after a long time, the child will remember all the Chinese characters posted.
Storytelling literacy
When I tell two children about picture books, I like to read them with my fingers, and I don't show the children to look at my fingers, but simply read stories to the children. However, after reading a picture book five or six times, the child took the picture book and repeated it to me, and over time, he also knew a lot of words.
Second, start with simple words and do not let the child feel frustrated
There are about 100,000 Chinese characters, but only a few thousand are commonly used. Children who master one or two thousand Chinese characters can basically read on their own.
For preschool children to read, parents can start from simple Chinese characters to teach their children, such as Chinese characters one to ten, such as like people, heavens, large, small. Chinese characters with fewer strokes are easy for children to remember, and these are also commonly used words.
Every day, let the child unconsciously write down two or three words in the play, and after a year of accumulation, the child will know a lot of Chinese characters.
Third, repeat the memory, in order to remember well
For children, Chinese characters are an image, they do not understand the meaning of Chinese characters, nor do they understand the structure of Chinese characters, they remember quickly, forget fast. So repeating memories is very important.
The words that the child knows, parents can pretend not to know, ask the child, see if the child remembers, often help the child repeat the recall, so that the child can remember it.
In the area of children's literacy, I think it is necessary to let children read more before school age without forcing children. What I chose for my children was "Preschool Literacy Three-dimensional Flip Book".
I chose this book because:
The book has 1600 high-frequency words, including 800 high-frequency words in primary school grades one through three.
And it is a three-dimensional flip book, there are a large number of flip-through mechanisms in the book, which is a fun toy for children.
This book contains common words such as life scenes, nature, characters, and poems, which can make children develop an interest in words in life scenes. Literacy is no longer a mechanical memory, but to mobilize children's sense of touch and vision, and experience a richer and more interesting charm of words.
There are 11 super large panoramas in the book, which combine rich large-scale scenes such as nature, city, family, traditional culture, and common sense of life, so that the learning of Chinese characters is three-dimensional and systematic.
And there are nearly 400 super cute cartoon pictures, combining pictures and texts, and using both left and right brains, so that children can associate memories and make literacy faster, more accurate and more secure.
This book combines Chinese character learning, situational cognition, and enlightenment early education, especially suitable for early childhood articulation.
A flip book can solve your child's literacy problems and lay a good foundation for your child to enter school, if your child is in the stage of 2-6 years old, it is recommended to start directly.
Kindergarten to primary school, does not mean that do not teach children, do not let children learn, but also pay attention to the way and method of teaching, to combine knowledge and children's interests, so that children in life, in the play and play to accept happily.
Many zero-based children always feel a lot of pressure when they integrate into primary school, and their parents are also very anxious, just like my boss, when the zero-based first grade, there is a lot of homework every day, and the children can't read words on their own, waste a lot of time, every time I accompany the baby to do homework, I am exhausted.
Therefore, if the child can recognize some words before going to school, the child and the parents will be much more relaxed when they are young.