Many celebrities talk about the importance of reading when they talk about education.
Reading can let us learn from the experience summarized by our predecessors, but also let us see the market that we have never seen before, let us experience life or things that we have never seen before, reading has many benefits for us, "love to read" and "do not love to read" What is the biggest difference between children who grow up?
From the perspective of brain science development, reading causes the brain to produce three different places.
1 Neural circuits are different
Neuroscientists used magnetic resonance imaging technology to scan the brain that was reading, and found that at least 9 brain regions in the brain were active when reading words, and what surprised neurologists was that when the reader imagined the contents of the book, it activated the relevant areas of the brain, resulting in new neural circuits. Children who read regularly have more active neural circuits in the brain and work more efficiently in the brain.
2 The thickness of the corpus callosum varies
As we all know, when the brain is operating, the left and right brains work as coordination, and the callosum is an important bridge connecting the left and right brains. The thicker the corpus callosum, the better the coordination ability of the left and right brains, the child's nerve fibers will continue to become denser when reading, and the callosum will also become thicker, and children who do not often read will gradually shrink and thin because there is no external information stimulation, and it will be more difficult to learn.
3 The size of the hippocampus varies
The size of the hippocampus determines our memory, the hippocampus will filter and screen according to the importance of information, important information will be transported by the hippocampus to the cerebral cortex to become a permanent memory, and unimportant information will remain in the hippocampus to become a short-term memory. When reading, it will continue to absorb a lot of knowledge into the hippocampus, and will also promote the secretion of dopamine in the brain, improve the activity of the hippocampus, and the more active the hippocampus, the better the memory.
In addition to the three aspects we mentioned above, what other benefits can reading bring?
1 Improve the ability to learn
In a study that read had four times the impact of reading on children's intellectual development as education, it followed 17,000 children from the same socioeconomic background who scored equally well on aptitude tests at ages 5-10 until they were 16 years old.
Relevant researchers have found that children who usually read a lot of times generally have higher grades, and reading can improve children's vocabulary, comprehension, logic, summary and induction. There is no need to deliberately cultivate, and children naturally improve their abilities in all aspects when reading.
2 Develop your child's concentration
Children need to coordinate the operation of hands, eyes and brains when reading, which avoids most of the interference and also improves the child's concentration. When reading, children need to imagine the text, and the areas of each part of the brain are very active when imagining, which can make the child's concentration on the imagination, not easy to disperse, and can improve the child's concentration for a long time.
Since reading can bring so many benefits to children, how should children fall in love with reading?
1 Prepare your child for reading books
Parents first need to discover their children's interests, collect books according to their children's interests, guide their children to read, and gradually expand the types of children's reading. Secondly, you can take your child to the library and let the child choose the books they like to read, in general, 0-3 years old children like brightly colored pictorials, 3-5 years old children like fairy tales and pictorials with storylines.
2 Create a good reading environment
Creating a good reading environment for the baby is also the premise of cultivating the baby's interest in reading, parents can decorate the small corner of the home as an exclusive baby's reading area, so that the baby will not be disturbed by others when reading. It can also improve the baby's reading concentration, and secondly, a good reading atmosphere can also improve the baby's interest in reading.
3 Parent-child reading
When the baby reads, if the parents can read the book with the baby, make a good example for the baby, can also better promote the baby's interest in reading, but also can communicate with the baby about the content of the book, you can also analyze and discuss with the baby, you can improve the baby's reading level.