Take picture book reading as an opportunity to attract children with colorful pictures, so as to subtly cultivate children's interest in reading. This is a necessary stage in the process of developing the habit of reading for almost every child.
However, as children grow up, their performance in "reading" varies greatly.
Some children pick up word books and indulge in the world of words, while others, even in the upper grades, still only love to read picture books and comics.
The word book either falls into the dust, or becomes a hypnotic tool, and the child's performance makes the parents anxious.
How to guide children to transition from reading picture books and comics to reading text books? Today, Nuo Ma will talk to parents about her own experience on this issue, combined with her more than ten years of experience in accompanying reading.
1. Correct concepts
There are quite a few parents who have a "stage bias" against picture books and comics, namely:
When children are young, parents are extremely enthusiastic and buy a large number of picture books for their children to read, parents believe that picture books and comics are the best reading enlightenment for children, as long as children are willing to read, they will spend money to buy.
But when the child reaches school age and learns some words, the parents' attitude is diametrically opposed. It's still the same picture book comics, but parents wear "colored glasses" and prejudicefully believe that children read more picture books and are not nutritious. He even began to intervene in various ways, not buying, borrowing, and even confiscating the picture books in the children's hands.
We might as well observe that children who like to read often have two shining points: one is a strong interest in reading, and the other is good reading habits.
Children like to read picture books and comics, which is a necessary stage on the way to cultivate children's reading habits. Wonderful storyline, with vivid pictures, the process of reading comics can stimulate the brain to release dopamine, so that children can enjoy the joy of reading and generate interest in reading.
If parents forcibly intervene that their children are "not allowed to see and are not allowed to see", the result will only be counterproductive. Children either lose interest in reading from then on, or they become more obsessed with picture books and comics, and regard word books as a flood of beasts and reject them.
Therefore, as a parent, the first thing to correct is a concept: even if children like to read picture books and comics even when they are older, that is not a bad thing, and adults still have a lot of comics to read!
Rather than banning, the more important thing for parents to do is to help their children choose the right comics, good comics, not only can bring children the sensory pleasure of reading, but also infiltrate all kinds of knowledge. And, a good comic, each of its pictures, in fact, has been carefully designed and arranged to guide children to explore those hidden plots, and the ability to read pictures is also an important part of reading ability.
II. Heavy Drawing
The cultivation of good reading habits must be the guidance from picture books to text books, and how to make children complete the leap in the reading stage, focusing on transition guidance.
At the root of this, many children are reluctant to move out of picture books, and a large part of the reason is that "the transition work is not done well".
From picture books and comics to word books, it is needed", and it is also needed.
The early stage of picture reading is the accumulation of interest, the combination of pictures and texts in the middle stage is the bridge transition, and the later stage of text-only reading is the goal achievement.
We will focus on this "transition phase", and there are two key issues to be addressed.
01Increase literacy
There is no doubt that a child who can read with relish in a text-only book must be a child with sufficient literacy, and it is a matter of course to go from reading picture books and comics to reading words.
However, if children are reluctant to read the text books, one of the "obstacles" is the amount of literacy! A page full of text, half of which is unrecognizable, children look at it with difficulty, which naturally affects their interest in reading.
Laying a good foundation for children to learn literacy is something that should be insisted on from an early age. Generally speaking, when children are about 5 years old, they will be interested in reading numbers, words, and symbols (pinyin), and if parents find this trend, they should seize the opportunity to guide their children to recognize words. Literacy tasks can be implemented in life, integrated into games, and taught unconsciously in preschool can lay a good foundation for children and help them progress by leaps and bounds in school age.
02 Borrowing bridge books
From picture book reading to text reading, it is not an either/or transition, but a time transition.
During the transition period, the way parents use to guide their children to read is largely related to "whether children can successfully fall in love with text reading".
Recalling my son's transitional reading, to sum up, there are points.
Listen to long stories
I remember that at that time, I bought a little doll for my son to listen to, "Journey to the West" produced by Uncle Kai. The vivid and interesting story, the son listened very fascinated, holding the little puppet and listening to it all the time, turning over and over again. This paves the way for the transition from a "single story" to a "long story".
After all, reading a text book requires patience and courage to read long stories.
Read multi-grid comics
Before that, most of the stories my son read were single-page illustrated picture books, one story at a time, one picture at a time, and the amount of information was relatively small.
When my children became interested in listening to "Journey to the West", I bought a set of comic books of the four famous novels, with many pictures and a significant increase in the amount of text.
Because of the foundation of "listening to stories", after getting the book, my son couldn't wait to pick it up and read it, while looking at the pictures and guessing at the same time, and figuring out the storyline in combination with the stories he had heard. Even so, a long story needs to be supported by text interpretation. For this reason, he is willing to take the initiative to read and write, and often asks with a comic book.
Speaking of which, thanks to the comic books, my son's awareness of active literacy and reading has been cultivated.
Read a series of novels
Doggy comics cultivate children's awareness of independent reading, and the series of novels allows children to really develop the habit of independent reading.
Since my son started in the first grade, he had a parent-child reading task every night, and we read a few pages every day based on reading text books, or read a story, "Zhang Qiusheng's Slap Fairy Tale", "Good Night Before Bedtime Story", "Little Doudou by the Window", "Forest News", etc., were completed at that stage.
The main mode is that the mother and wife sit side by side, the child fingers and reads, and when I encounter words I don't know and don't understand the content, I explain it in time.
The child stumbled over a few books and psychologically accepted the matter of reading the word book. How to go from "accompanying reading" to "independent reading" comes from reading a series of novels "Magical Tree House". A set of eight copies, bought home for a while, put in the corner and stained with dust.
It was a summer afternoon, and my son was bored and ended up reluctantly turning out the set of books. Then, after reading, he was completely fascinated, sat on the couch for an afternoon without moving, and finally read 4 books in one go.
That afternoon, I was really surprised by the child's performance, and I looked through the book afterwards, which was mainly black and white with no phonetics, a few illustrations, and I thought it served as a good bridge.
First of all, the single volume is not large, which is just suitable for children's reading ability.
Secondly, the story is dressed in magic and can stimulate children's interest in reading.
Thirdly, the language expression is mainly in short sentences, which means that children are not tired of reading and can build confidence in reading.
In addition, a set of multiple books, children are not addicted to reading a story, and then reading a story invisibly lengthens children's reading patience and expands children's interest in reading.
This is a qualitative leap in the reading experience, and it is this experience that has allowed him to complete the transformation from shallow reading to deep reading, and realize in his heart that a good book is a text book.
From then on, whether it was a borrowed or bought, thick or thin book, he no longer resisted, and could dive into it and read it.
To make children fall in love with reading, the result orientation is "utilitarian", but in the process of cultivation, it must be "de-utilitarian and re-guided".
With a little more permission, a little more companionship, and a little more guidance strategy, reading will become a love for children and a thing that they will benefit from for a lifetime.
I am Nuo Ma, I have a male treasure at home, and I am committed to parent-child growth research and provide valuable parenting dry goods for parents!