Some time ago, everyone may have paid attention to a news item about kindergarten and preschool education:
Key points: "Training and education apps for preschool children will stop running."
Although this is only a "public comment" announcement, you can still feel a strong signal - the learning preparation that children need to do to rise to a young age, not only there is no training class, but there are fewer and fewer online resources, and basically they can only rely on paper materials and parents themselves.
However, as a person who has come over, Zao Ma wants to give everyone a reassurance: don't worry. Here's why:
First, the "three axes" of young children are literacy, pinyin, and number sense, for most children, these three items are actually not necessary to be "proficient", there have been shallow tastes, not zero foundation on the line, there is no need to compare with those "3 years old to know 3000 words" cases on the Internet.
And believe me, before school in the language and mathematics to spend a lot of effort to rush, the cost performance is really low. After a year or two, it may not only be the same as the children who did not run away, "invisible to everyone" (this is proved by scientific research), and may even have a bad impact on the children - they feel that they have learned, it is not good to listen to the teacher, and as a result, important details are missed, leaving big loopholes.
Second, this kind of "basic enlightenment" is not originally "chicken" by relying on institutions and external forces, and its lowest logic is "curiosity & interest in learning", and the most effective enlightenment scene is between parents and children.
As long as you grasp the essence and method of preschool enlightenment, every child can be successfully prepared.
There are still half a year before the first grade enrollment this year, and recently the jujube mother will also write some dry goods for young children to connect "self-chicken", and everyone is welcome to vote to see where everyone's needs are:
Today, our old friend, the second-grade baby mom who loves to learn, first came to share her "preschool literacy ideas" and "pit -- pit avoidance experience". The whole dry goods without advertising, welcome everyone to copy homework, or leave a message to share your family's literacy enlightenment good methods, let's come together to discuss!
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Blindly brushing the number of literacy is meaningless
The purpose of literacy must be to read
My baby is now 8 years old, although she has started parent-child reading since she was more than 1 year old, but the real "literacy" should start from the age of 5.
When we first entered school at the age of 6 and a half, we were specifically said by the Chinese teacher that "there is a lot of literacy, and there is no one in the textbook who does not know." In terms of extracurricular reading, like this bridge book with pictures and words, reading in the first grade is stress-free, and you can read most of the books in half an hour:
Now in the second grade, reading this kind of "Everything" magazine, the speed is also quite fast, and the information is basically into the brain, indicating that it is basically "reading":
Of course, this reading level is certainly not comparable to that of the same age as the tomes of literature, but from the perspective of literacy alone, it is still enough to cope with the second-grade reading materials inside and outside the classroom, and it can also help children read books of interest.
By the way, I must emphasize here that the purpose of literacy must be to read and write, not to "know xxxx words at xx age".
Equivalent to that, Chinese characters are coded one by one, and we understand their meaning in order to "decode" words, sentences, and articles and understand the overall meaning.
After reading the words and phrases, the children acquire more knowledge, information, learn more vocabulary, idioms, and even extend from a word, and learn more words at once (such as knowing "Qing", and then knowing "please, Qing, feelings", etc.), and can be exported through language expression and writing, becoming the humanistic quality of our Chinese.
So literacy is, to put it bluntly, the most basic "tool" or "bridge" for building cultural literacy.
Parents of young babies are prone to anxiety because of various "indicators", afraid that their babies are lagging behind and are not as good as others.
But I am the one who came over and patted you on the chest to ensure that the children who know 100 words before school and the children who know 500 words will soon be flattened, and no child will be educated and illiterate. What ultimately widens the gap between Chinese learning is the higher-order reading comprehension ability, writing and expression ability, and the general knowledge foundation of Chinese history and culture.
In the future, if you hear how many words your child knows, don't be anxious, just laugh it, our chicken baby's vision can be long-term.
By clarifying the purpose of literacy, we go one step further: when to teach children to read, how to help children to read, and what kind of literacy methods are more efficient.
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At what age does the child begin to read?
Please be patient with these signals
I'm not an expert on Chinese characters, and I haven't studied "how old should a child start to read?" And why did we start to read at the age of 5? I thought about it for a moment and found the reason:
The child signals "interested in Chinese characters"
When shopping, the child will point to the traffic signs, safety signs, and the names of the shops and ask me what the words are;
When parents and children read, their eyes will begin to move out of the picture and pay attention to the Chinese characters next to them;
When I misread a word, the child will immediately point it out;
When a child draws, he will "write" carefully, although you don't know what is "written", but it is obviously very different from "drawing".
These signals indicate that the child has finally "seen" the Chinese character.
Note that this "seeing" is often not that we point to the Chinese characters on the picture book and force the child to look at it, but even if we do not remind, the child also takes the initiative to discover the difference between Chinese characters and pictures.
Don't underestimate the process of discovering this distinction, which is a small step in our eyes, and a big step in the development of children's cognitive development.
In the eyes of infants and young children, Chinese characters are no different from the patterns on picture books, at most "small, square small patterns"; when they are four or five years old, their brains will gradually begin to distinguish and begin to be interested in knowing what these square words mean.
I also consulted the Ministry of Education's "Guide to Learning and Development for Children Aged 3-6", and for "reading and writing preparation", the degree of development of children at different ages is very different, and it can also be seen that there will be more obvious signals at the age of 5-6:
Key points: 5-6 years old, began to be interested in books and life situations in the text symbols, know that words represent a certain meaning.
Therefore, at this time, it is actually more scientific and reasonable to start taking children to literacy, indicating that the child's brain has developed to a suitable degree and is ready to recognize words. That is what we call "taking advantage of the situation", riding on the "wind" of children's curiosity and curiosity, the chicken baby will become easier and more effective.
Of course, there are also some precocious children who will show their curiosity about Chinese characters in advance and begin to be interested in recognizing words, so there is no need to wait, you can take your child to read early, enter independent reading early, and the child's brain is already resistant to chickens.
So, which literacy method is more effective?
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The most popular method of literacy on the market
I even stepped on the pit
When I first took my children to read, I really felt the stones to cross the river, tried all kinds of methods on the Internet, spent a lot of money, found artifacts, and stepped on pits.
I comb through it here, and also according to my own situation, from the dimensions of "effective", "interesting", "can be adhered to", everyone refers to it (just subjective feelings, not representative of everyone).
1. "Read more, you will be literate"
Effective index: ★
Interesting index : ★★★
Persistence Index: ★★★★★
This should be one of the most Buddhist methods of literacy that has been circulated, focusing on "waiting for the flowers to bloom" - more with the child's parent-child reading, the child will slowly recognize the word.
But in my experience, this is also too Buddha, and the effect is particularly slow. Maybe you diligently take your child to read for a year, and the child is familiar with the content of the book, but you point to some words to ask, and you don't know three questions, which is really "illiterate on the text".
What's the problem?
When parents and children read, the child's eyes and brain are actually very busy, especially picture books with more words. His eyes look at the picture, his ears listen to you tell the story, the brain synchronizes the picture of the story, and once there is something more interesting to imagine, or if there is a problem, the mouth occasionally has to say a few words and ask questions.
In this process, it is actually difficult to pay attention to specific problems, and I have long been unable to remember which word is which. Therefore, there will be a situation where the word is not recognized, and the plot is reversed like a stream.
However, let's not reduce parent-child reading because of this.
Reading is so interesting, so stimulating children's interest, expanding their imagination, we must insist, because "stimulating and cultivating interest in reading" is much more important than "literacy", which can make children get a positive experience from reading and become lifelong readers.
However, don't think of "reading" as the only way to read.
2. "Literacy APP, Edutainment"
Effective index: ★★
Interesting index : ★★★★
Persistence Index: ★
The most popular literacy app on the market, I have almost always bought a year-round membership. However, it didn't take half a year, it was all deleted by me, even if the members were wasted, they were resolutely deleted, because - too much like a game, too easy to indulge, scary.
The literacy logic of these apps is essentially good.
For example, to speak a word, the process is relatively long, from pronunciation to meaning, some also show the historical origin of the word, from oracle bones, gold text to the evolution of modern Chinese characters are mentioned, and in order to make children interested, there are story cartoons containing this word.
After watching the cartoon, there are also a wealth of interactive mini-games.
For example, let you read it out and use AI to rate you; there are also words to fill in the blanks, and if it is more difficult, several similar words are put together to let you fill in the correct ones.
In short, it takes about 10 minutes to learn a Chinese character. There are explanations, there are animations, there are stories, there is feedback, lively and lively, the child does not feel "learning" at all, but like a play, unconsciously ended, very interested.
At first, I was also very happy and felt that my children were interested in learning Chinese characters, so Xingchong bought a membership. But after a while, I suddenly found that the child was fascinated, always thinking of opening the literacy APP to play for a while every day, and after becoming skilled, he would skip the links of explanation and story, and directly enter the interactive mini-game link, poking and poking and poking.
How effective is the learning?
You ask him in a few days, you still don't remember clearly, you learned a pass, an empty, indicating that the brain's concentration is all in the fancy game, the Chinese characters themselves, but become unimportant things.
"Attracting interest" is more than enough, the literacy effect is insufficient, and it is a bit noisy.
Therefore, the literacy APP is still recommended for babies with good self-control, and it is best not to use it as the only means of literacy, at most it is a "meal", not a "main dish".
3. Black and white word cards without color and pattern interference
Interesting index : ★
Persistence Index: ★★
Many parents originally planned to teach their children to read, and they would buy this kind of word card. A large box full of words on one side of a card, and a group of words and strokes on the other side.
▲ The word card I purchased
I bought it too, but I barely used it. There's only one reason – it's so boring.
Every time I take out this box of word cards and take out a bunch of words from it, the child knows: Oh, it's time to teach.
Often I hold up the word card, dry mouth to teach how to read, how to group words, children are gradually excited, lose interest, can not recognize many words a day.
I understand very well, because most of the words on the word card are completely unfamiliar to the child, when you teach him, he has to remember the pronunciation, word meaning and group words in a short period of time, which is a great challenge to the short-term "working memory" in their brains, the memory is full at once, and then the chicken does not move (working memory is what the brain can remember at once, that is, temporary memory storage space, it is very small, so it will be forgotten in a moment).
Later, I slowly realized: you can't take this kind of word card and "teach" unfamiliar Chinese characters. Its correct use should be: the child knows more and more words through other means, and you use this set of black and white word cards to "test" the child's results every once in a while.
At this time, the child will find: "I actually know so many words on the word card, I have a sense of accomplishment." It is unlikely to reject the use of black and white word cards to recognize words, but I will also like this detection method.
4. Oracle & modern Chinese characters control word cards
Effective index: ★★★★
Persistence Index: ★★★
I bought a small elephant Chinese character (pure sharing, no interest relationship), a total of two boxes of word cards, in fact, there are not many words, but the child recognizes very happy, the effect is also very good, all at once can remember.
This set of word cards is actually very popular on the Internet. Its biggest feature is that it truly returns to the origin of Chinese character cognition - hieroglyphs.
Let's take an example.
For example, "qi", the three bars are particularly like the "qi" thing, and at the same time this thing is very similar to the word "qi".
There is also "rice", those three points are the rice we eat, put into a large jar (mortar), and "grass" itself is related to grain.
And "blood", a drop of blood fell into a vessel.
Similarly, there is "Gao", children can very intuitively associate Chinese characters with the drawn image, see the word and think of the source of the story behind it, and remember it at once.
At a glance, it is very easy to understand the meaning of the words, and it is very fast to remember.
Moreover, I consulted papers related to Chinese character cognition and found that this "starting from the image" literacy method is exactly in line with the essence of Chinese characters.
As we all know, our Chinese character is "shape sound character", its shape directly expresses its meaning, we can associate its meaning from its shape. The scientific and effective law of Chinese character cognition is: first understand the "shape" of the word, and then know its sound and meaning.
Some glyphs are very easy to understand, such as "tears", three points of water represent water, and the eyes represent the eyes, which together are "water in the eyes", which is naturally tears.
Some glyphs are more difficult, and there are common sense and stories of humanities, history and geography behind them, and this part of knowledge is needed to explain the origin of glyphs clearly.
For example, I bought a very famous copy of "The Kingdom of Chinese Characters for Children", the author is the Swedish sinologist Lin Xili, who specifically tells the historical story behind the origin of Chinese characters, which can fill the gap in modern people's cognition of Chinese characters, and it is recommended for parents to read. After reading it, we can tell our children about the historical origin of Chinese character shapes, which is very interesting.
This book is particularly interesting, such as "husband" Why does "husband" have the words "husband" and "husband"? It represents adults, and the small vertical that stands out at the top is very learned - ancient adults needed to tie their hair up and protrude a bun for the "husband".
There is also "Standing", in the Oracle and Gold Texts, which is a very figurative appearance: a person standing on the ground, very good at understanding good memory.
When our children read picture books like a picture book, to know the source and story behind each Chinese character, it must be interested, curious, and naturally remember more firmly.
Even, this cognitive method of understanding the meaning of words from the glyph has also been found to bring about a "compound brain effect", so that the left brain and the right brain can be developed at the same time, because the glyphs of Chinese characters will be processed in the perceptual right brain, and the correspondence of speech and semantics mobilizes the rational right brain, which is completely different from the English only mobilizes the left brain.
Moreover, this method of extending from Chinese characters and learning Chinese history and culture by the way can also enhance children's humanistic literacy, which is also of great benefit to future writing.
My suggestion is that the baby elephant Chinese characters can be put into a set, and it also has a set of supporting books "Chinese characters are drawn", which can help parents tell the simple story behind the Chinese characters. There is a "Dole Reading APP" that Zao Mama pushed before, and if you buy a semester card, you can watch it for free.
Curious parents, "The Kingdom of Chinese Characters for Children" can also be read, when your children are confused about a Certain Chinese Character, you can always read its historical allusions, which is really a very good parent-child humanistic learning.
5. "Four-Five Quick Reading Series"
In addition to the oracle bone text card, in fact, I have also bought a very old-school literacy textbook "Four Five Quick Reading".
A lot of people online think it's very effective, and my feeling is: if you're going to make a lot of literacy in a short period of time, it's going to work. Because it is a very orthodox "literacy textbook", there are large fonts for single word recognition:
There are words to read:
There are simple sentences:
There are also textbook readings and dedicated collections of stories:
If the child can sit still, then one lesson a day is so chicken, it is certain that literacy will be very fast in the short term.
Unfortunately, we were unable to persevere.
The reason, like the black and white word card, is too much like "class".
It takes a long time to repeatedly recognize Chinese characters and words and sentences, and the concentration of four- and five-year-old children is not enough, and it is easy to feel bored. The story inside, in fact, is far less interesting than some excellent picture books, more "old-fashioned", and will also lead to insufficient interest in children.
Therefore, I would suggest that children with strong concentration can try this set of books. Or, if you want to concentrate on chicken before going to elementary school, you can also try, but also be prepared for the child's little interest, and it is best not to force the child, in case you lose interest in literacy and language, the loss is too great.
6. One acre treasure box graded reading
Effective index: ★★★
I really "spent a lot of money" to buy this set of graded readings, last year when the wind was very strong, known as the "Chinese version of oxford trees", a large box of a total of four levels, to more than 1,000 yuan, about 60 books, so high.
Its biggest feature is that it uses interesting picture books as the content base, and is divided into 4 levels according to the number of words and the difficulty.
Children can start from level 1 to brush one by one, just like reading English graded books, brush to level 4, basic and simple picture books can read independently. It is more "painless" and the process is more comfortable.
For example, the difficulty of the first level is like this, after reading each picture book, there is also a concentrated recognition review session:
The second level is this:
You will find that the word count and difficulty are increased by a little gentle slope.
Moreover, the content of picture books is relatively new and extensive, fiction and non-fiction, as well as Chinese cultural stories.
From grades 1-4, for children of different ages, there are different levels of cognitive content, much like english RAZ.
When we bought it, we basically knew the words, and the children read it as an interesting picture book. A book is very thin, page by line, very fast to read, the last page of words, children try to see if they all know, a book is even if it is brushed up.
After brushing, there are also rewards for children, gold medals + awards, a sense of ceremony, and children will have a sense of achievement.
My suggestion is that if the budget is more sufficient, I hope that the child's literacy journey is easier and the upgrade is more stable, then you can buy it earlier, such as starting at the age of 3, reading as a parent-child picture book, and so that the child begins to be interested in the text, just the content is already familiar, you can seamlessly recognize words.
And an acre of treasure box also has a supporting APP, each Chinese character will have a video, explain its origin, but also more complementary.
But if the budget is not enough, you don't actually have to buy it. It is enough to use the above small elephant Chinese characters, plus their original picture books, and the Chinese characters that can be seen everywhere in life.
For example, the words learned by the small elephant Chinese character card, parents can guide their children to see and recognize in life, to strengthen memory; and then when reading picture books, the learned words and then focus on guiding children to recognize, which can also be very effective.
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That's all I've had with my children.
Can't say that every one is universal, but I also hope to provide some purchases and pit avoidance references for young baby families, and also thank the platform of jujube mother, so that I finally have the opportunity to do a combing, and the next issue of content goodbye!