article｜Ningma Wuyu
Nowadays, many children are in English before the age of 6, such as watching cartoons and reading books. But the problem is that the child has a special liking for cartoons and runs away as soon as he is asked to read. Parents are very confused. Can you do a good job in English when watching cartoons only? What should I do if I don’t like reading?
Beijing Foreign Language Professor Cao Wen gave a special answer to this question. She said: It is normal for children to like to watch cartoons, but watching cartoons only is illiterate. You must teach your children to read. If you don’t guide them, the children will not cry and shout to read, because reading itself is a very difficult task.
is indeed the case. It is so simple to watch cartoons. Various information is pushed to children in the form of sound, light and electricity. Children can understand without others explaining or using their brains. They look fun and interesting, and they can't stop the car. But after listening to a lot of sounds and watching a lot of pictures, the child may pop up some English in a certain scene, but when he encounters English words, he still doesn’t recognize them. Isn’t that just illiterate?
It is difficult to make children take the initiative to like reading. Children like to read pictures at most. When they see dense texts, they are completely unfamiliar and cannot get interested at all. They are really easy to be scared away.
However, English enlightenment must overcome the hurdle of reading. "Help Your Children Fall in Love with Reading" says, "Reading is a very different and more timely nervous system process and intellectual process. It requires growing children to invest more in reasoning and cognitive efforts."
Reading will not only make children recognize words, but also improve their thinking and become smarter. The sooner a child develops the habit of reading in English, the more he can enjoy reading in the future and benefit from reading.
How can parents guide their children to like English reading?
Professor Cao Wen gave a few suggestions very good, we can refer to them immediately.
First of all, , parents are a person who loves reading books in front of their children, often reading books, instead of browsing their phones every day, setting an example for their children.
Next to , we should teach children books so that they can realize that the voice and text correspond one by one, and the English arrangement is different from Chinese. For example, in English, multiple letters are connected together to form a word, with spaces between each word, while in Chinese, each word is close to each other. Children have a basic understanding of English reading.
Again, This is the experience I summarized when I took my children to read in English. Be sure to interact with your children to give them the desire to explore. The methods I have used are:
- 1. First, understand the Chinese story as a whole, and then read each page carefully. Only when children understand the content of the book can they be interested in learning new knowledge.
- 2, corresponds to the four types of pictures, real objects, voice and text. Find clues in the pictures, find real objects or use real objects to demonstrate them. Children will find fun and interesting.
- 3. Use vocabulary such as movement expressions that cannot be displayed in pictures, and use specific movements to perform . Make facial expressions sufficiently, and make the movements more exaggerated and cute. The child unknowingly enters the book while hilarious.
- 4. When encountering some storylines, you can associate them. is related to the child's life. Children have a sense of intimacy because of their familiarity and like to read.
Choose a picture book you like for your child
preconceived concept. The premise of allowing your child to read with our guidance is that the picture book you choose for your child must be what he likes, and it meets the following elements and is easy to grasp the child's heart.
First, the picture is interesting
The child has a natural interest in pictures. When he sees a book, he will first be attracted by the pictures in it, and secondly the content. So, first look at the pictures in the book will attract children.
pictures should be rich in colors, simple lines, cute style, and in-place details. Attracting children's attention can make it easy for children to understand, and it also has the ability to point to pictures to express your thoughts.
For example, "Rainbow Candy Children's English Enlightenment Picture Book" is very in line with children's preferences.When the child looked at the cover, he felt like he discovered a new world. He began to guess what fun and interesting content was inside, and couldn't wait to open the book to read it.
Second, the story content attracts children
If the picture is just good, the content is far from the child's cognition, and the child cannot read it in depth. You may look at the pictures, read them briefly, and then run away again, so you must also pay attention to the content of the book.
gives two principles here. is a book that matches the cartoons that children like, and the other is a book that is close to their children's lives.
After watching cartoons, the child is very familiar with the plot. When he reads the book, he will talk endlessly and then pester us to read it to him. He unknowingly knows a lot of English.
Dabao Erbao has this experience. Because he likes to watch Thomas cartoons, he especially likes to read Thomas' books. He has fucked dozens of books and learned a lot of vocabulary and expressions.
Children are more concerned about things around them because they have a sense of intimacy and familiarity, coupled with their strong curiosity and desire for new ways of expression, they will be attracted to read them one by one.
When Erbao started reading "Rainbow Candy Children's English Enlightenment Picture Book", the first book that attracted him was "I Spy Numbers", which talked about the content of counting. Erbao was in mathematical enlightenment, which happened to be related to his life, so he kept reading and counting in English. Later, I gradually liked to turn seeds into trees, fruits, robots, etc., and my interest gradually expanded.
, third, from simple to complex
makes children like reading is a gradual process and cannot be compared with other children. Especially for children who are just beginning to read English books, the book they start to choose must be simple, and as their abilities increase, the difficulty will gradually increase.
Nowadays, the better suits are all thoughtful and grading, allowing children to read from low-level levels step by step until they can read bridge books and chapter books, and their abilities are becoming stronger and stronger. There are many graded reading materials like
, and the cost is very high, basically around 1,000 yuan, and there are many people with a size of several thousand yuan. Many friends will feel that the burden is heavy. Here I recommend a set of "Rainbow Candy Children's English Enlightenment Picture Book", a total of 80 books, and the price is very beautiful.
"Rainbow Candy Children's English Enlightenment Picture Book" is divided into two levels: basic level and upgrade level. There are difficulties and easy to distinguish between the same level. For example, there are 40 books in total, and is numbered from 1-40. The larger the number, the more text content.
This set of books also conforms to the characteristics of 's interesting pictures and attracting children's . Erbao and I have been reading it for almost 4 months and have always liked it very much. We have changed many reading methods. The child is very dedicated to reading and his vocabulary has skyrocketed. Sometimes when I read the previous sentence, he has already read the second sentence, which is very surprising.
This set of books is very exquisitely designed. It not only makes reading fun, but also can effectively help children improve their English abilities. There are learning goals, keywords, key sentence patterns, reference translations, sentence patterns, and related readings , so that children can learn English through various channels.
If you think you can't read or pronounce it correctly, don't be afraid. has a supporting reading method video, as well as the audio of each book, which is divided into standard version and follow-up version , which is convenient for practicing listening and following reading. The audio can be listened to by mobile phone, downloaded to a computer, and copied to a small speaker to a Walkman, which is very convenient.
This set of books is suitable for children aged 2-8. If your child is in English, it is very suitable to read this set of books. If you need it, your parents will click the link below to place an order.
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