Hello everyone, I am Liu Yifeng, a linguist, and the mother of a first-year elementary school student. This is the second month I entered Toutiao.
Although we have always advocated quality education, there is no conflict between quality education and good grades on the test. Today, let’s talk about the topic of taking the test. How to help children who are not literate enough to get better grades .
01 Final exam that cannot be ignored
The first grade of elementary school is coming to an end. Although the children have gone through dozens of exams, the final exam for the first grade cannot be ignored because of the The score will be recorded in the file. It is not necessarily required that children must take 100 points, high scores, but they should be encouraged to try their best to achieve satisfactory results.
Moreover, the teacher has reminded many times that there will be no more questions in the final exam, and the children's ability to do the questions independently should be exercised. But some children do not have enough literacy, what should I do?
02 Cultivate the habit of children to complete an assignment independently and completely as soon as possible
Now primary school homework is the norm, especially for the first grade children, it is really not easy. However, children have just entered school and have not mastered efficient learning methods. They are very dependent on their parents, especially when they cannot read the questions independently, and they are more dependent, and it is easy to ask their parents if they don’t understand.
First of all, it is normal for our parents to accept it. But at the same time, we also have to make an agreement with the children. What are the assignments for this subject today? Each assignment needs to be completed independently by you. If you encounter unrecognized words or questions, make a mark and work. You can ask Mom and Dad after you're done.
The benefits of doing this are, first of all, to cultivate the good habit of focusing on completing a certain task, and naturally let the child know that when completing an overall task, it can be easy first and then difficult.
Another great advantage is that is very helpful to cultivate children's Gestalt ability . This ability is especially important when you don’t know many words when reading and doing questions. It can guarantee that you will be able to score. It will not happen that the knowledge points have been mastered but the points will be lost due to not knowing the words and not understanding the questions.
03 Gestalt Psychology
Gestalt Psychology, also called Gestalt Psychology . If we are unfamiliar with this psychological term, we will certainly not be unfamiliar with the question type "cloze".
"Cloze" is one of the most common question types in our English exams since childhood. For an article, cut out 10 words, fill in the blanks, and let us fill them in. The theoretical basis of this "cloze" question type is Gestalt psychology.
Gestalt Psychology believes that when people perceive and recognize things, although sometimes the information they obtain is not very complete, people will subconsciously complete the incomplete parts to form a complete picture. To understand the picture.
The most typical example, is the mark of the iPhone mobile phone-an incomplete apple .
This incomplete apple, everyone can automatically complete the image of a complete apple in their mind when they see it. This is the end The role of shape psychology.
Similarly, people’s reading process is also a gestalt process . Take the example that you are reading my article now. No reader is reading word by word. They are all skipping and flashing. A sentence, a paragraph, and a few key words are enough. Can also understand. So, first-year children, when they encounter unrecognized words when reading exam questions, they can use this theory.
04 A few small examples
Example 1:
This question, the child does not want to do it at first sight, and is afraid of difficulties. And we hadn’t learned Chinese characters at all before school started, so when the child saw the topicI don’t want to do all the Chinese characters without pinyin.
I said to the child, " Mom and you play a psychology magic, , you should read this little article by yourself first, first read it, and then you look at each question you know A few Chinese characters, just read the Chinese characters you know. The Gestalt magic of psychology will tell you what to do, without mom reading the questions."
The child will be suspicious and say, I only know "draw, draw, "Children’s songs", "Are you asking us to draw something?" I said, "You read the article again to see what this article is about?" The child read it again, suddenly jumped up and said , "Mom, I see, this question is to draw the animals that appear in the nursery rhymes." Get it done!
Example 2:
Using words to form sentences is also a very common question type. Our child’s literacy is really poor. Except for the textbooks, he can’t do anything else. If he can’t read the exams, he will suffer a lot. Therefore, I encourage him to use this psychological Gestalt magic. Be afraid of words you don’t know. Second, look at which words you know, and think about it. For example, in the first question, "I call my mother", the Chinese character "to" is unknown, but after knowing "I, mother, call", can naturally form the grammatical structure of "to call" . What's more, this silly boy also read "word" as "say", but it doesn't affect it, because these mistakes can be automatically corrected through the Gestalt mental mechanism.
After three days of homework training in psychology magic, children can guess words, guess questions, do their own homework, and basically develop the ability to complete homework independently. Self-confidence has also been greatly improved, which is particularly important, because he discovered that on his own, he can also !
In fact, no matter how you train your child, the most important thing is not to tell him what it is and how to do it, but to let the child learn and think independently according to his own strength. This is quality education, and it can also be tested in the exam. good grade.
I am Liu Yifeng, a linguist mother who pays attention to the development of children's native language ability, the construction of bilingual ability, and the harmonious communication between parents and children. Please like if you like~
