I used to think that watching cartoons was the same as reading books, and watching cartoons could also learn a lot of vocabulary. But since I started reading with sugar packets, I found that watching cartoons does learn a little less vocabulary than reading books. But I have to admit that reading with sugar bags is such an energy-consuming process.
Since the sugar pack went to kindergarten, the teacher in the kindergarten class will ask the children to read and punch the clock every day, at first I did not take it seriously, but felt that for the illiterate children, the premature requirement for the child to read the card will make her have a rebellious psychology on the book and the story in the book, affecting her to read consciously in the future, so there is no supervision of the sugar bag to read and punch the clock. However, the teacher will award awards to the children who insist on reading for about 50 days to encourage them. Sugar Packet saw that she did not win the award and went home to ask me why she did not have the award, I had to say, I did not urge you to read and punch the card, sorry. In order to satisfy the sugar packet's desire to win the award, I began to urge her to read and punch the card.
It was at this time that I just finished reading Zhan Qingyun's "Taking Advantage of My Youth, I Want to Be Reluctant". Zhan Qingyun said in her autobiography that when she was about 4 years old, she could read the story of "Journey to the West" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". It was only then that I finally realized what the benefits of reading books were compared to watching cartoons.
First, reading books can learn vocabulary that cannot be learned in cartoons.
All works will go through a creative stage, using the process of creating the TV series "Zhen Huan" as an example: 1. First, you have to write the novel "Zhen Huan Biography"; 2. Adapt the novel into a script; 3. Disassemble the script of each episode into various schemes: such as lighting schemes, costume schemes, character modeling schemes, etc.; 4. Shoot the characters and environment into the camera according to this plan; 5, the post-editing scheme and so on. This creation must have started with words, and the use of words runs through the whole process. It can be said that without good words, there is no series of actions after that, so there must be good words first.
To write something interesting, you need a lot of vocabulary accumulation. The animation film has analyzed a large number of sentences describing the scenery and character images in the novel, and figuratively transformed them into scenery configuration, character clothing, and dress, so it is impossible to learn the expression of such words from cartoons. For example, the "Journey to the West" book will elaborate on the sentence "Sun Wukong went to Sanxingdong to worship Bodhi As a teacher", but in the cartoon, the three words "Sanxingdong" will only be engraved in the scenery arranged for the filming of the TV series. If a child who watches cartoons cannot learn this knowledge point without looking closely, it is difficult for her to tell this story vividly when she wants to repeat the story through her own mouth.
Therefore, a child who has watched the "Journey to the West" cartoon will not know that Sun Wukong's first master was the Bodhi ancestor who lived in the Sanxing Cave, and a child who read the "Journey to the West" book will get it, Sun Wukong crossed the ocean and went through all kinds of hardships to come to the Three Star Cave of The Lingtai Fangzhi Mountain in West Niuhe Prefecture to worship the Bodhi ancestor as a teacher, and learned the seventy-two changes and the skill of 108,000 miles of the bodhi ancestor as soon as he flipped over.
See the difference, after watching the cartoon, the child, the mind is a picture, but the picture can not be output through daily behavior, unless we learn to draw specifically for this purpose. And the way we ordinary people interact most with the world is through oral or written expression. Children who read books have vivid words in their minds, which can be described through the child's mouth or pen, and when these words come out of the child's mouth or flow out of the pen, they constitute the child's expression.
Second, reading can enhance memory.
The reading mentioned here is that adults read books to children. Usually, I read "Journey to the West" to sugar packets like this: leaving Che Chi Guo, the four Tang monks and disciples traveled all the way west, sugar packets, why should they go all the way west and go west. At this time, the sugar packet will sing "The Western Heavens take the scriptures on the main road, and once you go, it is tens of thousands of miles, what demons and ghosts, what beautiful women paint skins, what swords and mountains and fires, what trap trajectories, can not stop the fire-eyed golden-eyed Ruyi Stick, escort the master and apprentice to the west." She told me that they had gone to the Western Heavens to learn the Scriptures.
When talking about "Three Dozen White Bone Essences", there is such a sentence that "Sun Wukong can see that this girl is a monster at a glance", so I have to ask "How did Sun Wukong see that this girl is a monster at a glance"? The sugar packet taps its temple with its index finger and thinks for a moment, "Well, fire-eyed golden-eyed." "How did Sun Wukong's Fire Eye Golden Eye come about?" "It was refined in the alchemy furnace of Taishang Laojun for 7749 days."
Reading a sugar bag is so difficult, obviously I only need 1 minute to read the book, the sugar bag read 10 minutes. And that's just one paragraph. Every time she opened a new story, she had to point to Tang Monk, White Dragon Horse, Sun Wukong, Pig Eight Precepts, Sand Monk one by one to say their names, I also had to see the stitches to let her review, sun wukong what skills, what weapons he used, where his hometown was, whether the red child was a fire cloud cave, what fire the red child spewed out was called fire, what skills he still had, what weapons the eight precepts of the pig used.
Just like this review over and over again, sugar packets can now know a lot of the characters, places, and storylines in "Journey to the West". For example, Taishang Laojun has a gossip image on his head, Taibai Venus has a golden star on his head, Sun Wukong's first master is Bodhi Zushi, Bodhi Zushi's hometown is in Fangzhishan Sanxing Cave, Sun Wukong's hometown is in Huaguoshan Water Curtain Cave, his weapon is Ruyi Golden Hoop Stick, in Bodhi Zushi learned the skills of Douyun and Seventy-two Changes, The Weapon of the Eight Precepts of pigs is the Nine-Tooth Nail Rake, Guanyin Bodhisattva is from the South China Sea, and so on.
So why reading books can enhance memory.
Third, reading, you can practice your child's expression ability.
When I read the book "Learning Early Education with American Kindergarten Teachers" by Big J and Little D, I learned that the language organization ability, vocabulary, imagination and continuity and logic used in storytelling are all indicators of language ability, and storytellers also need to have a good memory and strong logical thinking ability. Storytelling involves the mobilization of almost all of the cognitive abilities needed in the learning process.
Yes, for 3 or 4-year-old children, expression is the ability to tell stories, if she can continue to internalize the stories told to her by adults into vivid and specific vocabulary, and then use the language organization skills and logic she has mastered before to repeat the story, she can become a master of expression.
This is to watch cartoons can not give children the ability, or that most parents to watch cartoons as children's entertainment, rather than a learning process, if parents can also accompany children to watch cartoons like reading with children, I believe that the process of watching cartoons can also make children learn a lot of things.
At the end of the day, it's a question of how much time a parent is willing to spend with their child.