Don't rush to the notion of word recognition, as early as half a century ago, there was such a call.
In 1968, a three-year-old girl named Edith in Nevada, USA, told her mother that she knew the first letter "O" of "OPEN" on the gift box.
The mother was very surprised and asked how she met. Edith said: "Ms. Vera taught."
The mother took the kindergarten to court with a petition on the grounds that the kindergarten deprived Edith of her imagination.
Because her daughter can speak of "O" as an apple, sun, football, bird's egg and so on before knowing "O". However, since Laura III kindergarten taught her to read 26 Alphabet, Edith lost this ability.
She asked the kindergarten to be responsible for the consequences and compensate Edith for mental disability of US$10 million. After the
complaint was submitted, there was an uproar in Nevada. The kindergarten thought the mother was crazy, and some parents thought she was making a fuss. Her lawyers disagreed with her actions and thought this lawsuit was a waste of energy.
However, this mother insisted on bringing this lawsuit down, even if the family went bankrupt.
Three months later, the case opened in the Nevada State Court, and the final result was unexpected: Laura III Kindergarten lost the case.
It can be said that the US government has spared no effort in protecting children's imagination and resisting advanced education. The US "Civil Rights Act" stipulates that children have two basic rights in school that must be protected:
1, the right to play;
2, the right to ask "why".
Why has the advanced education of word recognition turned into a scourge?
If your family has a baby who loves to read, you may be pleasantly surprised to find that after listening to the parents many times.
The baby can repeat the whole story completely or even intact, even if he does not know a word, and all this is not deliberately recited.
can do this precisely because he can’t read words, so he can concentrate all his energy on beautiful language, hearing and pictures.
I believe you must have been moved by the beautiful written expressions of the children in the early stages of learning Chinese. Don't be surprised when you hear the story told by your child that is more beautiful, gorgeous, and complete than your words.
Because this is the unique language sensitivity and imitative ability of children, is also the foundation for a deeper and broader language ability.
Baby’s strengths, is to imitate what you hear and directly copy .
But once they start to recognize words, the child's attention will be distracted from the reading, and will no longer concentrate on "listening" and "imitation".
When should I recognize characters?
Of course, word recognition is not unimportant. On the contrary, word recognition can raise children's reading to a whole new level. Just don't recognize words for the sake of word recognition.
The most natural state of preschool word recognition is to answer questions, not teach if you don’t ask, and only look at the interest in rereading the picture book. is not proud of how many words you know.
We are always too impatient, always thinking of instilling in advance what children should learn in school years before school.
In fact, this eager success and instant benefit can only be reflected in the school when they first entered the school, and the number of words can not advance the child's starting line.
Moreover, When children were young, they used image thinking . They read the picture first, and then read the words from the picture., It also exists as a picture for the baby.
Therefore, even if he recognizes a bunch of words, he doesn't understand the meaning of putting them together. The result of is that he can only recognize words and cannot read them.
Read a lot of story books for children, so that children can fully immerse themselves in beautiful written language, which is more cost-effective than simply recognizing hundreds of words.
So, when do you start teaching children to read?
When he is really interested.
Just like this, the baby suddenly became interested in "character" again. When each person was allocated a carton of milk, she would point to the three words "Derensu" and read them seriously. : "Baby's".
will also refer to the book name word by word when the book title is memorized.
This kind of signal reminds: the child has reached a sensitive period of text, usually I will hold her finger and read the text she is interested in one by one.
If the baby is interested in word recognition, please don't stop it, if you are not interested, don't force it.
Only by respecting children's own intellectual and sensory development laws and learning the right things at the right time, can we get twice the result with half the effort.
