Thousands of books a year! I relied on this to quickly increase the amount of reading for my children!

Text | Rice Mama (Public Number Rice Mama Channel)

Old fans know that Rice Mama is a typical auditory learner.

Over the years of doing public names, the work is particularly busy, plus the evening to tutor the grain of rice, want to squeeze out the whole time to read, recharge, simply unrealistic.

But doing the public name is a strong output work, only output is not input, relying solely on eating the old book, how can you continue to write valuable content?

Since I have limited time to read, I simply listen to a lot of books. Listening to books is not limited by time and place - on the way to and from work, the time of exercising every night, the time of baking and cooking, the time of doing housework, the time of waiting for rice grains to play football, the time of lunch break, you can wear headphones to listen to books.

I went from 1.25 times the speed at the beginning, heard 1.5 times the speed, and now 2 times the speed, the rice grain dad sounds like a "heavenly book", for me it is not a problem at all, it is by relying on these fragments of time, I have been able to listen to 80-100 books every year in the past few years

Coupled with reading paper books, watching kindles, adding up, the "amount of reading" is really quite amazing, at least several times more than pure reading.

Because I myself am a beneficiary of auditory learning, I have trained Rice Grain to "listen more" since he was a child.

In fact, there is another reason for this: me and my rice grain father are highly myopic, do not wear glasses 10 meters away from the "people and animals do not distinguish" kind, I always feel that rice grains can use more ears, you can use less eyes

Under my influence, Rice Grain grew up listening to various English children's songs, vocal enlightenment, ancient poems, and later Chinese and English picture books, grading, popular science stories, from the first chapter book to the chapter book, children's literature, famous masterpieces, small ancient texts, long novels... Listen to everything.

By listening, when the grain of rice was a child, it could "ingest" at least a thousand books a year (of course, the length of the books was relatively short), and when it was four or five years old, it could listen to five hundred or so books a year, and even now, there are one or two hundred children's literatures and masterpieces that are "nibbled down" every year.

By reading alone, children can't finish reading so much every day without eating or sleeping.

The matter of "listening" has benefited a lot from myself and the study of rice grains, so I feel it is necessary to write down my experience in this area for everyone's reference. I hope that our children can quickly increase the amount of reading by listening to books, and the key is to save eyes and save mothers.

As for how long to listen to every day? Listen to what? With what to listen to? Will it destroy concentration? How do listening and reading go hand in hand? Will children not like to read books after listening to books...

Below, the rice grain mother will give you a detailed explanation of Ha ~

Listen to what? How long is it each day?

【Before 3 years old】

Before kindergarten, children have the most "time freedom", eating and sleeping every day, and have a lot of time to grind their ears.

Listen to more rhythmic English children's songs, vocal enlightenment, simple Chinese and English picture book stories.

When Mom and Dad are at home, they still try to start the "human flesh story machine", after all, at this stage, accompanying interaction is more important. During the day, when parents go to work, when the elderly take the baby, they can listen to the audio and grind their ears.

【3-6 years old】

In kindergarten, children do not have so much time, but fortunately there are not many learning tasks. At this stage, children have a stronger desire to explore and want to get more knowledge and content from the outside world that they do not know.

In English, you can listen to a variety of master picture books, theme stories, graded readings, and cartoon soundtracks that children are more familiar with;

Chinese can listen to ancient poems, stories with more complicated plots (such as "Journey to the West", which many children like), popular science knowledge, myths and historical stories suitable for children.

It should be noted here that when choosing an English listening list, you must choose the content that 70% of the child can understand, and completely unintelligible is equal to invalid input, listening to a lonely.

【6 years old and above】

After the child goes to school, the time is obviously less, and the learning time in the class should account for the majority, and "listening" is a powerful supplement.

In terms of English, according to the child's actual English level, you can continue to grade reading, series of stories, first chapter books, chapter books, or to ensure effective input, in addition, in addition, in addition to pan-listening, but also with intensive listening, practice listening and spelling, etc.;

Chinese, classic ancient poetry, children's literature, masterpieces, historical stories, Chinese and foreign masterpieces, popular science knowledge... In short, it is a large intake.

As for how long to listen to each day, it varies from person to person, and preschoolers have relatively plenty of time, and can squeeze out at least one or two hours of time every day.

Colleague Chen Chen's child Xiaodou Ding is now more than 5 years old, gets up early every day to go out, and can listen to half an hour of popular science stories.

After school at 5 p.m., play in the community for more than 1 hour, and come home at 6 o'clock to watch a 15-minute cartoon first.

After watching the cartoon, he opened the reading cow himself, the Chinese and English stories, the original voice of the English cartoon were interspersed, he ate, drank, and played, listening and doing, without delaying anything. Until 8 o'clock Chen Chen returned home.

At night, when you are about to go to bed, you can listen to the audio of ancient poems for another 15 minutes. At the end of the day, it's been almost two hours.

On weekends, the family drives out and listens in the car.

After school, children's time is more fragmented, like rice grains, that is, breakfast and dinner, washing and bedtime time is listening, which is a relatively fixed time period.

Play downstairs after school, if you are with the community friends, crazy will certainly not listen, if there is no small partner, he can hang up the listener, can listen to the point is the point.

Driving out on weekends and listening on the road too.

With what to listen to?

Will it destroy concentration?

Too small children are not convenient to wear headphones, the general audio is played externally, any player, as long as the sound quality is good, there is no problem, but pay attention to the volume is not too large.

Children's eyes should be protected, ears should also be protected, and hearing loss is irreversible.

Of course, mobile phone playback can also be, but many times children listen to audio when their parents are not at home, so it is still necessary to configure a "grinding ear" artifact for children.

(Let the child use the mobile phone iPad on his own on this consequence)

Like colleague Chen Chen to the child to use the reading cow, which itself is equipped with a variety of audio resources suitable for children to listen, parents can use the mobile phone app to set up, the child himself can operate.

A few days ago, Chen Chen Jiawa used the old man's mobile phone to send WeChat to his mother, saying that the set of popular science stories he listened to now has been listened to back and forth twice, and he wants to change the new one, Chen Chen directly uses the mobile phone to operate well, and the new audio is also synchronized at home.

Of course, in addition to the cattle listening, reading cattle, super remember cattle this family, there are many similar products on the market, everyone choose a favorite, adhere to the use of it.

Children are older, especially after school, they can start listening to one of the four major artifacts of Haidian.

It is easy to carry around and allocate enough resources to eliminate the need for parents to search everywhere.

As for whether doing other things while listening to the audio will destroy concentration, there is no problem with the rice grain anyway.

We certainly don't let the grain of rice do calculation problems while listening to English stories, usually when listening is when eating, exercising, riding in the car, washing and bathing

When I was a child, I would listen to Lego while fighting (and now I will), listen while playing with the car, and listen while puzzles, but it belongs to the Buddhist system to grind his ears, and it doesn't matter how much he listens to, he himself doesn't feel that listening to audio affects him.

Used to listening to audio, will you not like to read?

Listening is actually a supplement to reading.

Rice grain mother feels that reading is like eating fruit, listening to books is like drinking juice, to say healthy, it is definitely healthier to eat fruit, if you do not consider sugar, only consider nutrition, how much fruit can you eat a day? Drinking juice is different, tons tons tons tons tons ~ a cup of belly, two or three oranges will go in.

When the child is small, the amount of literacy is limited, the reading is not much, and more importantly, the vision problem must be considered, and the "human flesh card story machine" cannot be read 24 hours a day.

If you read for 1 hour a day without grinding your ears, then there is only 1 hour of input; if you read for 1 hour a day and listen for another 2 hours, then there are 3 hours of input. Even if we discount the 2-hour "listening", the final content absorbed by the child is far more than reading only for 1 hour.

Reading is a good habit that benefits you for life, so your child's enthusiasm for reading cannot be lost.

Like grains of rice, it will spend the whole time reading physical books.

We also often visit the bookstore on weekends, and the shelves at home are also full of books, one shelf is Chinese, and the other is in English. In the car, Grandma's house, Grandma's house, home living room, bedroom, bedside... I will definitely ensure that the rice grain can get the book at hand.

In the middle and upper grades, in addition to extensive reading, it is more important to read intensively, at this time, it is certainly not enough to listen to it, but I will let the rice grain listen to more historical stories, ancient poems, English stories, Chinese and English popular science books.

This type of content does not need to be read intensively, but is ingested in large quantities. And do not rely on listening, only rely on reading, children do not have enough time. Can you make the baby read while jumping rope? But they can listen to ancient poems while jumping rope, listen to historical stories while taking a bath, and listen to English while eating.

It saves a lot of time, does not cost eyes, and can quickly increase the "reading volume" in a short period of time, rice grains can now listen to Chinese can adapt to 1.5 times the speed, English has some normal listening speed, some can accept 1.25 times the speed

Finally, I have to emphasize to everyone that there are several pits related to "listening" and must be avoided

1, be sure to choose a player with good sound quality, do not listen to children in a noisy environment, otherwise they want to hear clearly to turn up the volume, the hearing damage will be very large. After elementary school, you can also consider giving your child a child's headphones (with the highest volume control). But at home, in your own car, try to put it out.

2, do not let the child on the road, dangerous places alone while listening and playing, may be too focused to pay attention to the traffic, danger.

3, can not because of listening, do not read, reading is always the first, listening is a supplement to reading.

4, listen to English, be sure to choose about 70% of the content for the child to understand, completely do not understand is equal to invalid input, too simple and no improvement.

5, pay attention not to let children "listen to the fascination" to develop the habit of procrastinating at eating, procrastinating in bathing, and procrastinating in sleep.

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