"The first and second grades are not divided into upper and lower grades, the third and fourth grades are polarized, and the fifth and sixth grades are heaven and earth", I believe many parents of primary school students have heard this sentence.
The meaning of this sentence is that for elementary school students, everyone has similar grades in the first and second grades, and there is no difference in sight. But in the third and fourth grades, some children start to decline in their academic performance, while others continue to excel. In the fifth and sixth grades, this gap is even more obvious, the excellent children continue to excel, the poor children get worse and worse, and the grades begin to distinguish between heaven and earth.
Seeing this, I believe that many parents have a question, why is it that in the third and fourth grades of primary school, children's grades are polarized?
In fact, the reason is very simple, that is, the learning content of the first and second grades is very simple, and most children can get good grades as long as they work hard, not to mention that many children have been studying in advance since kindergarten.
In the third and fourth grades, it is different, not only the course content is more in-depth, there are more knowledge points, but also the difficulty of learning is correspondingly increased.
For example, Chinese has higher requirements for reading comprehension and language expression, mathematics begins to learn multiplication and division, and English begins to learn grammar......
And these are all about children's independent learning, independent thinking, logical thinking, problem-solving and other abilities!
A friend who has been a class teacher in junior high school for many years once said that if parents want their children to reach the upper grades of primary school or even junior high school, they must start from the third grade of primary school to comprehensively cultivate their children's above abilities.
Otherwise, even if children can learn well in primary school, they may face various challenges in junior high school, especially in subjects such as the "Primary Four Subjects".
At this time, parents can actively provide their children with various educational resources and opportunities to help them develop their abilities in an all-round way. Among them, it is particularly important to encourage children to read more books in the following three categories:
1) Classic literature books
Sukhomlinsky, a well-known educator, believes that reading classic literature books in primary school has a positive impact on children's intellectual development, moral character and emotional experience, and can also help them expand their horizons, increase their knowledge, and cultivate their thinking ability and imagination.
After the third grade of primary school, especially in junior high school, the focus of Chinese learning gradually transitions from the assessment of basic listening, speaking, reading and writing to the assessment of reading comprehension, writing ability, ancient literature learning, literature appreciation ability and language expression ability.
Classic literary works are the crystallization of human wisdom and spiritual culture, which not only have beautiful language and refined expression, but also usually have profound connotations and rich emotions, plots and wonderful descriptions.
After the third grade, parents can appropriately let their children read some small ancient Chinese books to cultivate a sense of language and form habits. For example, "I Love to Read Ancient Texts" and "Meet Little Ancient Texts" are all good classical Chinese enlightenment books.
Compared with other ancient texts, the advantage of this kind of ancient text enlightenment book is that it is specially written for the enlightenment of primary school students, and the texts are selected from the classics, marked with pinyin, with annotations and illustrations, short and concise, easy to understand, and easy to understand.
For example, the set of books "Meet Little Ancient Texts" contains 3 volumes (learning, communication, and interest). It is suitable for students in the third to sixth grades of primary school to do classical Chinese enlightenment.
【Parents in the early morning】Meet the little ancient texts 120 ancient texts for elementary school students in five steps to understand the language extracurricular development ¥52.8 Buy
According to the theme, each volume of the three books selects 30 classic and excellent short articles, and sets up the columns of "Text", "Notes", "Ancient Texts and Modern Sayings", "Micro Words and Great Meanings" and "Chinese Studies Station" according to the reading needs of readers, using the method of "three steps to advance and five steps to understand thoroughly" to help children understand the small ancient texts, do a good job in the enlightenment of classical Chinese, and lay a solid foundation for junior high school Chinese learning.
2) Popular science and knowledge books
The famous American psychologist Robertson Spencer pointed out in the book "Child, Give Me Your Hand" that a good way to help children grow is to stimulate their curiosity about new things and encourage them to ask questions.
In junior high school, in addition to the three main subjects of language and mathematics, biology, history, geography, physics and other subjects have been added. These disciplines not only contain a lot of knowledge, but also increase a certain degree of difficulty. If children wait until junior high school to start from scratch, they often feel very struggling or even unable to keep up.
Popular science knowledge books mainly introduce the basic knowledge of science and the discoveries of scientists, so that readers can learn science through experiments, observations and reflections, and understand how scientists discover new things and how they contribute to human society.
Reading such books can not only let children understand the basic knowledge of Primary Four subjects in advance, but also stimulate children's curiosity and desire to explore, guide them to find problems and ask questions, so as to promote the development of their thinking, which is very important for the learning of Primary Four Subjects.
Therefore, after the third grade of primary school, parents can prepare more such books for their children, so that they can use the holidays and spare time to read them, and do a good job of knowledge reserves, after entering junior high school, they can quickly understand the textbooks, master the core knowledge points, and have a very strong ability to absorb and digest.
This winter vacation, the popular science book I prepared for my third-grade daughter is her favorite biology popular science book "Wonderful Insects".
A set of books, a total of 4 volumes, the book does not attract children with gorgeous pictures, but the content is rich, introducing almost all common insects, the content is not boring, in the form of comics, it is easy for elementary school students to like it.
The insect knowledge in the book can open children's eyes, open children's horizons, expand children's knowledge, and make children have a strong interest in nature and the biological world.
【Parents in the early morning】All 4 volumes of insect storybooks written by paleontological doctors for children Wonderful insects ¥39.9 Buy
For children, after reading this set of books and then observing various insects, there will definitely be an unusual feeling, and it is a set of popular science books for primary school students.
3) History and biographical books
Tao Xingzhi, a famous educator, once said: Reading history can be wise, and knowing the past can learn from the present.
Many parents have limited cognition of the study of history, thinking that history is useless, and learning history well is only to get a good history score. However, the importance of history learning for children is far from that!
Reading history and biographical books, where the language is often vivid and beautiful, can help children improve their reading comprehension, vocabulary and writing skills. It can also help children learn the characteristics and styles of writing in various genres, accumulate rich language expression and writing materials, and lay a solid foundation for future Chinese learning.
In addition, the historical events and stories of people involved in history and biographical books are usually full of contradictions, conflicts, and developments.
By reading these books, children can also exercise their thinking skills, critical spirit and problem-solving skills, so that children can learn to look at historical events and people from multiple perspectives, and form their own opinions and thinking.
Therefore, we should actively guide children to read such books to lay a solid foundation for their future learning.
I started with more historical biography books for my daughter, from her first grade of primary school to the present, there are no less than dozens of historical biography books at home, among which I recommend the most is "Historical Records for Children"!
"Historical Records" is a general history written by Sima Qian, a historian of the Western Han Dynasty, and was praised by Liang Qichao as "a masterpiece of the ages". It is definitely the originator of historical biography books.
However, the original content of the "Historical Records" is complex and obscure, not to mention children, and it is very difficult for adults to read.
However, this book is different, on the basis of being faithful to the original work, it selects a number of famous works in the original work, adds phonetics and illustrations, and refers to various historical documents and materials to translate and interpret the original work, and reorganizes it in a language that children can understand.
【Lianjia Books】All 5 volumes of historical records for children Zhuyin color illustrated plates of people, history and science classics reading ¥39.8 Buy
Perfect for elementary school students to make a history enlightenment book!
[Last Word to Elementary School Parents]
Primary school is a critical period for children's thinking and intellectual development, and reading is one of the important ways to promote children's thinking and intellectual development.
In the process of children's reading, the role of parents is very important, according to the law of children's ability development, choose reading materials suitable for them, cultivate their reading habits and reading interests, and promote their thinking and intellectual development.
At the same time, we should also pay attention not to interfere too much with children's reading choices, so that they can freely choose the reading materials they are interested in, so as to better play the role of reading in children's growth.
I hope that the books I recommend today can be helpful to all elementary school students in their future learning!