Founded in 1923, Time Magazine has a history of nearly 100 years and is the most influential newsweek in the United States.
Such a time-sensitive and professional newspaper has also launched a children's edition!
In the summer of 2022, Cricket Children's Books will cooperate with TIME magazine in the United States to exclusively introduce the original edition of TIME for Kids children's magazine.
The magazine will provide original English reading materials for Chinese children and adolescents aged 5~12 to meet the growing reading needs of Chinese families and children.
For Chinese children, TIME for Kids is not only a good helper for learning English and accumulating materials, but also a powerful tool for understanding current affairs and cultivating a sense of information.
In a world where story-based picture books and reading materials are everywhere, there are few high-quality non-fiction English reading materials for young children. Come and take a look~
Why is non-fiction so important?
Since 1995, TIME for Kids (TFK) has partnered with TIME's talented reporters, photographers and editors to deliver current news from TIME affiliates around the world to millions of children around the world in a language that children can understand.
Every month, TFK provides children with current affairs reports and analysis of social hotspots with critical thinking and broad vision, as well as a large number of popular science topics such as animals, plants, natural sciences, astronomy, geography, biology, etc.
As an educational publication, TFK is committed to exposing children to the world around them, stimulating their enthusiasm for engaging in conversations about current events, and fostering their civic awareness so that children can become critical thinkers.
The cultivation of English reading habits needs to be accumulated over time, and the materials read determine the speed and quality of the growth of children's reading level. Therefore, the choice of original English reading materials is particularly important.
As children grow older, reading should gradually transition and upgrade from enlightening picture books and graded reading materials to chapter-based books.
First, let's take a look at the requirements and standards for children's reading content in American schools:
We can clearly see that in the fourth grade, literature and information books account for half of the reading, and then, with the increase of grades and ages, the reading requirements for informational text content increase year by year, and finally gradually become the main component of reading materials for children in the upper grades.
This is also well confirmed in the well-known Cambridge Children's English Test, IELTS Jr., TOEFL Jr. and other foreign exams, as well as in domestic such as the college entrance examination, English level 4 or 6, and postgraduate English: non-fiction information articles account for the majority of reading comprehension.
Taking this year's national college entrance examination English test paper as an example, the reading comprehension question type and score account for 2/3 of the proportion, the comprehension ability of long articles and paragraphs is very high, and the reading ability of original and non-fiction articles has also shifted to a more scientific original reading route.
Most of the reading comprehension materials come from foreign magazines and publications, especially the more influential publications, such as Time Magazine and The Daily Telegraph.
For example, the following picture shows the reading material from TIME for Kids used in the famous California textbook in the United States:
TFK is in line with the needs of children's reading upgrade, starting from the elementary and intermediate reading stages of children at the age of 5~12, to help children develop the reading habit of non-fiction information articles.
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Professional team, specially customized for children
After nearly 100 years of development, TIME has formed a unique writing style, that is, "Time Magazine style", and experts even pointed out: "To learn American language well, reading Time Magazine is a shortcut." ”
Most of the articles in TFK come from a team of full-time writers who contribute to TIME, and their excellent writing and paragraph structure assignment ensure that the articles are readable and professional.
TFK's professional editorial team will also make appropriate deletions and adjustments to the articles according to the children's reading habits, abilities and levels, after repeated communication and discussion with the authors, to ensure that they are suitable for the reading and cognitive level of young readers, so that children will not be "frequently stuck" when reading!
TFK editors have solid journalistic skills and professional qualities, and long-term reading can enable young readers to master more English communication patterns and expression terms with more idioms, norms and standards, and say goodbye to "Chinese English" and speak "authentic English".
TFK Daily Morning Meeting
TFK's professional editorial team
From time to time, the editors will also add professional reading and writing guidance to the content, and personally guide how to standardize English reading and writing, which can professionally and systematically improve children's writing ability.
In the long run, when reading, children will no longer blindly read the article without knowing what to do, but learn to grasp the core content of the article, so that they can extract the most valuable and helpful parts for themselves.
Similarly, when children write, they will form an overall thinking in their minds about how to design the structure of the article and how to write in rich language, and it is not a dream to improve their writing ability and score their composition!
TFK benchmarks the three core curriculum standards for K-12 (kindergarten to high school) in the United States:
1. NGSS (Next Generation Science Education Standards, American Science Education Standards) 2. CCSS (Common Core State Standards, English Language Arts and Math Proficiency Teaching Standards)
3. NCSS (National Social Science Research Association Social Science Education Standards)
The imported version of TFK is available in two levels, K-1 and G2, which are suitable for Chinese children aged 5~9 and 8~12 years old, respectively.
The content is graded scientifically, the difficulty of the article is combined, the length is collocated, and the reading time is reasonably allocated to children, and the high-definition pictures help them to associate reading, quickly understand the article, and improve their interest.
Each issue of TFK revolves around a theme to help children fully understand the knowledge of a certain field and build a systematic knowledge structure.
For example, in the issue of "Seed Propagation":
This kind of thematic reading, as well as the setting of science sections, demonstrates to children the scientific learning method and the solution to the problem in daily life:
1. Think and ask questions;
2. Understand the background and basic information;
3. Expand to understand more comprehensive information;
4. Summarize and sort out the information obtained;
5. Design and put forward their own ideas and ideas;
6. Hands-on practice and validate your own opinions.
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How rich can Time Kids be in content?
The content of TFK's articles is both all-encompassing and time-sensitive, most of which involve current hot topics, including economics, environment, politics, science and technology, health, society, humanities, hot current affairs and other topics, so that children can improve their humanities and social communication literacy on the basis of gaining a lot of general knowledge.
It can comprehensively expand and cultivate children's cognitive ability, critical thinking, analysis and problem-solving ability, which is in line with the requirements of "cultivating students' multi-domain subject literacy" in the current education policy and syllabus.
The imported version of TFK not only has original and genuine content, but also provides a wealth of family reading guidance resources for young readers.
The original American pronunciation article reading audio, language learning starts from listening and reading, and it is an excellent material for grinding ears;
A supporting reading guide manual, the content is detailed, and the reading is worry-free;
Supporting online intensive reading camp, audio and video reading, explanation, interactive voice assessment and practice.
In order to help Chinese children better understand the content of each issue, TFK has also thoughtfully designed a guide for Chinese children.
Based on the content of the teacher's guide for American primary and secondary school classrooms in the original TFK, and closely combined with the needs of Chinese families, a version of the guide manual to guide children's intensive reading content is summarized.
This little guide book allows children to understand their goals before, during and after reading at a glance:
-Key points and introduction of the theme, background introduction before reading;-Correspondence of the article to the value of the lens, display of the difficulty of the article;-The theme is benchmarked against the standard keywords of the core curriculum of the K-12 stage in the United States, and synchronizes with the international education standards;-Thinking before reading, reading with questions;-Referring to the translation, comprehension aids during reading;-Thinking and practicing after reading, summarizing and sorting out after reading.
Log in to the WeChat Mini Program to carry out synchronous online interactive intensive reading guidance, with a total of 5 modules.
- Article audio: The article is equipped with American pronunciation reading audio to meet the different needs of young readers for extensive listening, intensive listening and follow-up;
- Topic introduction: The background introduction and content summary of the article will clear the obstacles for young readers to read background information and stimulate their interest in reading;
- Topic vocabulary: Present the core vocabulary of the article in the form of sounds, pictures and meanings to assist cognition, understanding and memory;
- Good sentence reading: The intelligent AI voice scoring system provides young readers with a platform for selecting good sentences to read and correct pronunciation, and real-time detection of reading accuracy and fluency, so that reading aloud can be targeted.
The most important thing is the article intensive reading section: the teacher will read and explain the content of the selected article intensively, so as to dig deeply, expand and extend for the children; in addition, it will also provide a mind map combing of the article content to help children build framework thinking, assist in post-reading expansion, independent output~
This year, the TIME for Kids (2023-2024) subscription service has been launched. Children in China can read fresh content every month with young readers from all over the world
TIME for Kids, 1 issue per month, 1 issue includes 4 newspapers, synchronized with the United States, a total of 7 months (October, November, December 1 (joint issue), February, March, April, May 2023). The 12-page guide is published with the first issue.
A two-year subscription gets:
【Gift 1】6-month commemorative edition (24 issues in total, 12 issues per year)
【Giveaway 2】1 multi-functional study alarm clock
【Giveaway 3】10 Cricket Children's Books English Original Magazine
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