Every time the words "English picture book" are mentioned, parents will unconsciously take three steps back, but they will not run away, but stand resentfully, eager for answers.
If your English is not good, can’t you do a good job in English parent-child reading? Can’t you read English picture books happily?
Reading English picture books is not English teaching
Mothers who are poor in English have such concerns, and they probably view English picture books based on English standards. You must know that taking children to read is to improve their reading ability, thinking ability, and strengthen the connection between them. Learning English is only a small purpose among them.
When parents read English picture books to their children, they should not have too strong a purpose, such as what words to learn, what expressions to learn, etc. You should also pay attention to the selection when playing audios for your children. You can start with simple and pleasing ones such as children's songs.
So, don’t worry too much about “My English is not good and I can’t read picture books with my children.”
Grasp the proportion of Chinese and English picture books
Many mothers worry that in a Chinese language environment, when their children are still young, blindly adding too many English environments will make their children confused and hesitant, and even disrupt their language construction. process.
actually doesn't. According to experts, the brain of infants and young children is like a drawer that can hold different languages, and several languages can be acquired at the same time. Picture books are very good reading materials for English enlightenment, because compared to language, pictures are more concrete, easier to understand, and can better educate vision and hearing.
can help children learn English as early as possible, get used to the English environment, and develop their English ears. Don’t worry too much about learning two languages at the same time and not learning either one well. Just pay attention to the quantity.
English parent-child reading for different English levels
English parent-child reading will be different depending on the English level. For mothers with no basic knowledge, the method is actually very simple, just learn English with your baby. Entry-level English picture books are very simple, mostly based on pictures, with only a few simple words. You can use Chinese and English to compare and understand the story first, and then tell it to your baby.
As long as we observe carefully, we will find that many picture books can extend interesting games. Today I will take the picture book I am a Bunny as an example to see how many fun parent-child games there are in it.
First of all, we read this book to children of different ages and different English foundations, and the reading methods are also different.
If it is a child who is learning to speak around one year old, we can only speak words for the first time. For example, there are many words on the first page of the picture book, such as bunny, tree, flower, butterfly. Parents can point to these pictures and just say the words. If the child likes the book, he will ask to read it again.
When we talk again for the second time, we can use games to enrich the content of the talk.
For example, when it comes to bunny, we can pretend to be a rabbit and jump around, and while jumping, we can say, I am a bunny. Sometimes the children can play with you for a while just with this action.
If you have enough toys at home, you can let them take turns to introduce themselves. You can also draw it on paper and cut it out. Remember that the arms must be long enough, because the little animals have to pat their chests to introduce themselves. Children can understand the long and abstract sentences in
picture books after we use games to interpret them.
For example, we can leave the sentence "In the spring" that appears in the picture book until later, and then talk about it after the children are familiar with the sentences in the book that you have used games to interpret. Therefore, here we skip the seasons and talk about flowers directly.
We can pretend to pick the flowers in the picture book and say: pick the flower. Pay special attention to the "picking" action while saying pick, so as to achieve the corresponding language and context. You can repeat this action, and your child may also repeat what you say while imitating your actions.
We can also make this action of picking flowers more concrete through games.
I once designed a flower-picking game. Use cardboard or other materials to make five flowers, which can be placed on the baby's five fingers.After finishing it, I looked at the flowers happily and said: flowers!
Of course we can also count, one, tow, tree, four, five. We can also pick a flower and say: I pick a flower. After picking it, put it on your finger and count again. Count how many flowers are left on your baby’s fingers. This keeps repeating. Remember to say the same sentence every time you repeat the same action.
Wait until all the flowers are on your fingers, then let your baby pick the flowers. The baby may not say anything when he is picking flowers, but you have to cooperate with him and say: pick a flower!, and then count with him how many flowers are left on your fingers.
This game can cultivate your baby's ability to focus. It is also helping him understand the concept of numbers. If we make flowers different colors, we can also learn colors.
Five flowers were drawn on the paper, namely yellow, blue, purple, red and green. Make a few little finger rings and stick them on the back of the flower, and you can wear the flower on your finger.
No matter what, moms and dads must personally participate in it. The so-called "nurturing yourself before raising children" means to integrate into a pleasant reading atmosphere with your children. Through parent-child reading, children will have fun and enjoy precious parent-child time with their parents while learning a new language.
