After receiving "1000 Kinds of Ocean Things", I learned that this is a sister publication of "English Word Book", which was a small surprise. Because the latter is a book that children read more frequently in English enlightenment between the ages of four and five, after the age of five, they began to enter the reading stage of English picture books, and gradually reduced the use of this large cardboard book.
The original intention of choosing this book was for children to watch the BBC's Blue Planet. The ocean world is vast, the marine life is also strange, the documentary appears in a wide variety of marine life, simply can not be bothered, easy to forget, or just interested in entering the next sea, a little too addictive, this time especially need a book of marine life.
However, this "1000 Kinds of Marine Things" is still a little different from the previous atlas. Traditional picture book, pictures and texts, popular science knowledge accounts for a large proportion, but as a sister book of "English Word Book", this book focuses on display categories, and with bilingual teaching, so, if it is only used as a picture book, it can only help children lock in a marine creature, know its name, to know more knowledge of it, but also need to use the network search engine, so, after reading for a week or so, my baby and I developed several new reading modes.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > first, illustrated</h1>
As mentioned earlier, as a catalogue of marine objects, this book also includes marine objects that are related to the human world, such as submarine machinery, compared with simple marine life atlases.
We must first read the table of contents and determine the classification of this atlas, so that we can find the creatures we are interested in. Traditional illustrations generally use physical drawings, but this atlas, the pictures are all painted, so when we use it as an atlas, we must use search tools.
The sea creatures in the book use scientific names, such as octopus, and the books use large categories of cockroaches, at first, we all still feel inconvenient, but after looking up some creatures that children originally knew but were unfamiliar with large categories, they became more interested.
At this stage, children do not seek to remember anything, but are interested and willing to explore and learn.
As in previous illustrated books, "1000 Marine Things" used as a catalogue is not a book that can be read immediately, but it will always be a book that can always arouse children's interest and guide children's learning.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > second, word book</h1>
Each creature is followed by an English name, and the last page of the book is an index page, just like the dictionary we used to look up words, such a ready-made English learning book, this function can not be wasted.
However, "1,000 Marine Things", which is used as a word book, has an age requirement for its readers. My baby is just 6 years old, only some simple words, has not yet begun to learn English children, to read down the English name and learn to look up the dictionary, which is a bit difficult to be strong. As a parent, the only way to use the bilingual function in Chinese and English at this stage is to read her the English names of some creatures she is interested in. However, these professional and unfamiliar words are also difficult for undergraduate business English mothers - yes, we still have to use learning tools, there is not much that can be found in the reading pen dictionary, and it is recommended that parents still use the translation software pronunciation version directly.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > third, literacy books</h1>
This feature is a little too difficult for this book, but this is what you will inevitably encounter in real reading. This has little to do with the high level of education of parents, let alone difficult for preschool children. As a master of journalism, I still have to look up the dictionary again and again while pronouncing out the words that are crooked to my children, such as ape fish, dark back jaw, Atlantic leopard catfish, spoon hole...
It is said that our Chinese culture is broad and profound, learn Chinese characters well, do a good job of Chinese, and start from each picture book. Children's books will make it easy for every parent to read with them to find that they actually have a lot to learn.
Finally, a digression outside the content, although the number of pages is small, it is very suitable for children to read. This experience is deeply experienced when I read the "English Word Book" with my children, of course, such books are still not suitable for young children, but children over four years old, from the reading experience and the reading frequency of books, the cost performance of cardboard books is relatively high.