The importance of parent-child reading, everyone knows.
"Children who love to read, their luck will not be too bad." This is a bit of an exaggeration, but it is true. The cultivation of reading habits will benefit children for life.
In the process of parent-child reading, in addition to deepening the intimate feelings between parents and children, it can also help children refine their language development, increase his comprehension, appreciation, and even help children recognize words.
More importantly, Montessori said that young children have an absorbent mind and insist on parent-child reading every day, and children not only absorb the knowledge in books, but also absorb this way of life - reading is an indispensable part of our lives.
So, in the vast "ocean of picture books", what kind of books should parents choose to read to their children? Are all books suitable for children? Master these 3 principles, parents will have an idea!
1. Priority is given to "non-fiction" picture books
It is recommended to choose content that is authentic and close to daily life. The content can have three levels, starting from the family environment, such as our family life, our family members, etc.; and then to the outdoor environment, such as parks, supermarkets, hospitals, etc. outside the family, what happens in these specific scenes; and finally the content of our cultural environment, such as animals, plants, different countries, customs and customs, and so on.
These contents often exist in the actual experience of the child, are really visible, and are therefore the easiest to understand and absorb by the child.
It should be noted that the content of picture books in fantasy is not recommended: such as monsters, fairies, etc.
If the protagonist of the picture book is an animal, it is recommended to judge it like this: there can be language between them, but they are better off not dressing, going to school, or riding the school bus like people.
Because children at this age are still unstable in their understanding of the real world, they cannot completely distinguish between true and false. When the child receives this information from the book, but cannot land and practice it in real life, the information will be suspended in the child's mind, attracting the child to constantly speculate and recall, occupying his precious time and energy, and hindering him from experiencing the real life.
There is also a kind of content to pay attention to, do not have to let the child touch it too early. They are real but do not exist in the time and space we are really exposed to, such as dinosaurs, the universe and other topics. These topics are more suitable for children over the age of 6, because their perception of the world has been relatively stable and can be based on reasonable imagination based on reality. And children who are too young to contact these information that cannot land on the ground are also easy to fall into the black hole of thinking.
2. Exquisite pattern and matching content
We want to choose picture books with beautiful graphics and content. Parents can consciously choose a variety of artistic techniques to express the illustrations, such as photos, ink paintings, gouache paintings, etc., to bring children aesthetic influence. It should be noted that the pattern should not be too cartoonish, such as the long nose and eyes on the car, for reasons already discussed above.
3. The language is rich and beautiful, and the font is large
Finally, Mom and Dad remember that the text for choosing a picture book for their children needs to be rich in language, beautiful in words, and large in font. Some doll-like characters (cartoon fonts designed into round circles) we adults look very cute, but in fact, it is not suitable for children to absorb the image of Chinese characters, it is best to be decent Chinese characters. You need to pay attention to the amount of text, which can gradually increase according to the child's age, for example, a 3-year-old child can start with one sentence per page, and when he is about 6 years old, he can be a paragraph per page.
Looking at it this way, parents will have more ideas when picking picture books for their children in the future. May everyone enjoy precious and wonderful reading time with their children.