Today I want to talk about the Bridge Book.
In fact, the role of bridge books has always been extremely important, but it is easy to be underestimated by parents.
Two years ago, when my son was in elementary school, I was taught a lesson.
As soon as I entered school, I found that my son seemed to be left behind.
Whether it is the supporting reading of textbooks or the reading books recommended by teachers, they are mainly text books. But children are still like kindergartens, like to listen to stories, like to read picture books.
He did not have the habit of reading words, suddenly looked at the text full of words, came up frightened, he could not read it, he had difficulty understanding, and he often wandered in class.
Later, I tried to re-read several sets of books with him, such as the "Laura's Stars" series, "Different Carmela" and so on.
There are many words in these books, the pictures are auxiliary, and my son used to only listen to me to read, and after listening to the books, he shelved them.
After turning it out again, it seemed that he was suddenly on the channel with the child, and he began to pay attention to the text on the side of the picture.
This is a great place to start.
After that, similar books became his favorite. He slowly experienced the sense of accomplishment of literacy, enjoyed the pleasure of independent reading, and the confidence to read returned.
This experience made me realize that reading pictures to reading words is not done overnight.
If reading is likened to a climb from the foot of a mountain to the top of a mountain, the child needs a support and assistance from the step to the arrow.
This auxiliary is the Bridge Book.
When the child is about 5 years old, his cognitive ability has been greatly improved, and his curiosity is also very strong, which is very suitable for introducing a slightly difficult bridge book to the child.
How exactly is the bridge book counted?
The appearance description given by Li Yiwan, a well-known domestic reading promoter, is: familiar words, large characters, short sentences, few lines, and half figures. The translation is: bridge books have more text than pure picture books, and more pictures than pure text books.
Combining my children's reading experience, I carefully selected more than 10 sets of bridge books, the content of these books from easy to difficult, can guide children into text reading step by step.
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"A Different Carmela"
I gave this set of books as a gift to the children of six or seven friends. It's really because the children like it too much, the story is very strong, and they have a wild imagination.
This set of books is no stranger to everyone, but many parents may not know that this is a typical set of bridge books. The page number is about 30 pages, the size of the book becomes smaller, no longer with pictures, but with stories, pictures with texts, to assist children to understand, very suitable as a child's first set of bridge books, four or five years old can read up.
The Magic School Bus Bridge Book Edition
The famous "Magic School Bus", boys and girls are very fond of, there is a bridge book version specifically for preschool children.
Regarding how preschoolers use Bridge Books, I asked an editor friend of a children's book publisher to share her approach. When his son was 4 years old, he first entered the picture book version of the "Magic School Bus" series, and the first time he read it with his children, the children immediately liked this set of books. Later, I entered the bridge book version, and when I repeatedly read, I guided the child from reading the picture to reading the text, and with the previous preparation, it was easier to guide the child to pay attention to what the text said, rather than just looking at what was drawn in the picture.
"The Cat in the Top Hat"
The first bridge book in history, and its birth tells an interesting story, in 1957, Dr. Seuss made a bet with publisher Random House that he could write a picture book that children would like in no more than 250 English words. "Cat with a Top Hat" came out, the whole book has only 236 words, but it is catchy, the story is interesting, and it has become a classic of bridge books.
Disney I Will Read For Myself series
This set of books is especially recommended for children who are still in kindergarten, and is known as a graded Chinese book, from level 1 to level 4, small classes can be read. The stories are all Disney classics, and the content is gradually upgraded according to the gradient. Level 1, each story text is only a few dozen words, with the level of increase, slowly to one or two hundred words, and then to five hundred words, a thousand words, you can take the child to gradually adapt to text reading.
I Love To Read: The Blue Series of Bridge Books
Bridge books, if the difficulty is too big at once, there are too many words, children are easy to be frightened. This set of books, the length is not large, almost 15 minutes can read a book, children feel relaxed and no pressure, especially suitable for children in the beginning of text reading. My son likes this set of books very much, they are all classic small stories, more colloquial, each book has 20 to 30 new words, and children slowly accumulate vocabulary and expressions in the story.
The Story of the Little Fox
The content of the bridge book must be interesting in order to attract children to read, the content is mostly for 5 to 8-year-old children, starting from daily life, nature and imaginary world, the plot is good, and the children are interested in reading. This series of storybooks is a typical, telling 5 short stories, some about discovery, some about cherishing and sharing, constituting a long experience, suitable for children aged 4 to 8 years old.
"One 21 Zoo"
As a bridge book, the amount of text is moderate, it is a common vocabulary, easy to understand, and gives children a sense of accomplishment that "I finished reading a book". This set of books boys and girls like, the content is interesting, the appearance is full of marks. The content is about all kinds of interesting things that happen in the zoo, as well as all kinds of small science knowledge, the author is the protagonist of the 2018 International Hans Christian Andersen Prize Literary Award, Noriko, very quality assurance. The picture is small and fresh, giving the child a very good reading enjoyment.
Shen Shixi Animal Story Zhuyin series
For children who have just learned pinyin, you can choose a bridge book with pinyin, and with the assistance of pinyin, take children to carry out independent reading. This set of books recommended by my child's class teacher is all about various animal stories and knowledge, and there is a natural affinity with children, and my son's classmates have a set of hands.
In addition, "Little Pig Purr", "My Own Reading" series, and "Tenjin Help" are also good Zhuyin bridge books.
"Sunny Days Sometimes Pigs" series
When children read picture books in the early days, their attention and gaze are mainly focused on the pictures, which is pictorial thinking, and relatively speaking, reading pictures is easy mode. Text reading is a complex decoding process that belongs to the hard mode. Therefore, the text of the book in the transition period must be simple and interesting, and it is most important to attract children to read it first.
This set of books does not have any preaching, is a classic of Japanese absurd children's stories, children will laugh after reading it, is a set of phenomenon-level, topic-level bestsellers, especially suitable for this stage, to build confidence in children's reading text.
Reading 123 series
From reading pictures to reading words, children's abilities are not developed overnight, and they need a process of advanced development.
Children are in lower grades and this set of books is highly recommended. The biggest feature is that there is an advanced reading. The beginner books are all life stories and humorous stories. Advanced readings, there are fables, reasoning stories. Knowledge books blend stories and knowledge to take children to explore the world. This is consistent with the content setting of the textbook, which is suitable for the child's ability and acceptance.
"Little Monster Fairy Tales" series
The reason why the bridge book is a bridge book is to play the role of a bridge, to help children from reading pictures to reading words, from dependent reading, to independent reading. This set of books is suitable for children in the lower grades of primary school to read independently.
This set writes the story between 3 small monsters, saying that it is a small monster, which is actually the embodiment of the child in life, naïve, childish, and has the special function of stealth and flight, and the child will like it very much. Books of the same kind include The Adventures of Onionhead.
Night of the Tempest
When children can gradually read independently, the content selection of bridge books can be more extensive, and slowly guide children from reading picture books to reading to children's literature, popular science, history, geography, biography, reasoning and other tomes.
Through some fables and stories, this set of books nourishes and grows up for children's hearts, so that children can feel the joy and harvest of reading that is different from the story category.
Similar books include the "Mouse Diaries" series, "Nils's Journey on a Goose", "Roald Dane" series, "Lassa-Maya Detective Agency" and so on.
Thus, through the bridge book, it helps the child to achieve the ability transition, build confidence in text reading, and help him become a truly independent little reader.
In short, reading is a wonderful thing, but it is never a natural and simple thing, and sometimes it is necessary for parents to gently push their children.