At the beginning of the school year, the Chinese teacher in the class recommended books suitable for fifth-grade students to parents of students. I counted it and found that there were about a dozen books in total. Under normal circumstances, you can finish reading in almost one semester.
From this we can see the teacher's emphasis on students' reading. A question arises. Is it enough to just let students read these books? The answer is obviously not enough. In my opinion, the recommended books by the teacher only meet the most basic reading requirements because he needs to consider the average reading level of the students in the class. This requirement cannot meet students with higher reading and writing requirements.
The difficulty in writing seems to be a common problem for children. In the past, parents often asked a question: Why did my child read so many books but still couldn’t write essays well?
From the parents' questions, we can actually find many questions worth discussing: First, parents think that their children have read a lot of books, but to what extent they have, it is unknown; second, children have read so many books, and how much of them are classic excellent reading materials, which is also a confusing book for parents; third, many parents do not know what kind of reading methods the children adopt.
If there is some misunderstanding in our understanding of the above issues, it is difficult for us to draw objective conclusions. For example, although children read a lot of books, they read a lot of "slobber books" that are not nutritious or low-quality comic book . No matter how many such books are read, it will be useless to improve children's writing ability, and instead lowers their reading taste.
In fact, those children with high writing skills must have read a large number of high-quality books; but children who have read a lot of "books" may not necessarily be able to write a good essay.
As for children who have read a lot of books, but still cannot write well in composition, the main reasons are as follows:
01 Children read the wrong book
Many children have low writing skills, which has a lot to do with their mistake book.
is not a book, and reading it will definitely benefit people. If you do not keep a good job in the quality of the book’s content, the more you read the book, the greater the harm it will bring.
So, when we see the child reading with the book in his hand, don’t be anxious to be happy, and see what book the child is reading. If you find that your child is reading books of low taste, we parents need to guide you.
is very important to choose books for children reasonably, and it is a "technical" job: first, parents should respect their children's interest in reading; second, parents should tailor a reading list for their children. On the one hand, this book list should consider the actual situation of their children, and on the other hand, you can refer to the reading list recommended by reading experts.
Based on my years of reading guidance experience, I found that in my children's reading bibliography, classic and excellent reading materials should occupy a certain proportion.
There is no doubt that if reading is not for the purpose of spending time, then we must let our children read more classic excellent reading materials. The literary and artistic value of these good books that have been accumulated through the test of time is incomparable to those hot-selling fast food books in the market.
At the beginning of language learning, children are influenced by the exemplary works of language masters and famous masters by reading classic excellent reading materials. This is crucial to nourishing children's body and mind, enhancing children's learning ability, improving children's cultural taste, broadening children's horizons, and laying the children's life pattern, etc., and benefiting for life.
Children who have read classic books since childhood are often good at citing classics and have strong writing skills. Below is a screenshot of a serialized novel written by a fourth-grade primary school girl. It is not difficult to see that the girl has a good writing skills. Without a lot of reading accumulation, she would not be able to write these words.
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When choosing books for children, parents should follow these two basic principles. First, "nutrition" must be balanced, and various types of reading materials such as literature, natural science, history and culture must find ways to let their children read it; second, reading in each stage must have key points and steps.
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Educational practice has proved that the earlier parents guide their children to read, the more they can lead their children to the correct reading direction. If parents only think of guiding their children to guide their children until their reading taste and levels have been established, the results are often not ideal.
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02 Reading has not entered the state of " flow ", which greatly reduces the reading effect
Nowadays, many schools attach great importance to children's reading, so school teachers often encourage children to read, and various reading check-in activities are carried out happily. However, from the actual situation, many children's so-called "reading" and "reading check-in" are just to complete the teacher's reading tasks. As for whether they really read in and to the degree of obsession, they have to put a big question mark.
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Only reading that enters the "flow" state is the true reading. The reading effect in this state is the greatest. Almost all the reading content can be engraved in the mind and will not be forgotten for a long time; it can also absorb the author's writing techniques to form a sense of language similar to famous works of famous artists.
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But it is quite challenging for most children to enter the "flow" state. To achieve this goal, it is recommended that parents start from stimulating their children's interest in reading. Once their children have interest in reading, they will easily enter the ideal "flow" state.
03 Just simply let children master writing methods, lacking long-term and large-scale reading accumulation
Many parents think that as long as their children master writing skills and methods, they can write good essays. We can see how "deeply written" this concept is from the various "writing secrets" that are popular on the Internet. But in fact, the quantity and quality of reading accumulation are the key factors that really affect children's writing skills.
I have a friend’s child who has been attending composition cram school all year round and has been attending composition cram school for three consecutive years. The essay cram school teacher taught him various writing methods, but the child’s writing level is still very low. The reason is that this child is not interested in reading and rarely reads. This also means that even though he has learned the writing method taught by the teacher, he has not accumulated much reading and is empty, which makes him feel stretched when writing and can only squeeze out dry words.
So, it is not enough to simply let children master the writing methods. We also need to encourage children to devote more time and energy to high-quality reading accumulation.
04 Lack of diligent "practice"
Many children read a lot, but in addition to completing the composition tasks assigned by the teacher, few people will take the initiative to "practice" extra. This approach is actually equivalent to "talking on paper", and it is difficult to fundamentally improve children's writing skills.
In order to improve children's writing ability, we should strongly encourage and support children to be diligent in "practice in writing". If a child does not like to "practice writing", parents will encourage him more; if a child wants to "practice writing", parents will support him more. In short, create a creative space for children without any constraints.
The "practice of writing" mentioned above is a writing concept in a broad sense. It is not just about writing an article on paper. It can be written or verbal expression; it can be a thousand words or improvised expression of three or five sentences, and the forms and carriers can be diversified.
But letting children practice writing is not just a matter of simply giving them a task. If a child lacks interest in practicing writing, he will not be able to write good articles. Parents should find ways to mobilize their children's interest in practicing writing, rather than letting their children feel like they complete writing tasks.
We can let the child start with what he is most interested in. Slowly, when the child has an interest in writing, he can encourage the child to try to create more theme content.
Of course, the practice of writing here does not necessarily have to be written on paper in strokes. In order to improve creative efficiency, we can let children try to use computer input text or use recording to convert text.
Conclusion
"Reading" is a very typical learning behavior of "accumulating strength and making" and it takes a long time to see the effect, which requires us parents to have more patience and encouragement in this regard.
The calm waiting and scientific guidance of parents will surely bring about the final fruitfulness of children in the field of reading and writing.
