text: Zhang Yongwen
This is an occasion when a junior high school student mother talks about the reading status of her children:
A Mother said: He has been staying at reading story books and only looking at the plot.
B Mom said: Although he is reading, it is better not to read those erotic, violent, and ghost books!
C Mom said: He has read so many books, but why do I ask him questions and answer them always "I don't know" or "I don't feel it".
D Mom said: My family is the worst. I don’t like reading books in and out of class. Is he going to be like this forever?
Nine to thirteen years old is a very important nutrient period for "reading thoughts". On the one hand, learning is entering a new field, and on the other hand, brain development is also ready to welcome a diverse perspective.
After the age of nine, children learn new knowledge through reading and have a richer understanding of the meaning of vocabulary. Accumulating background knowledge is the main learning goal of this stage. Children will be exposed to different texts such as textbooks and magazines, and will also read a wide range of topics such as history and geography. Most of the reading content is related to facts, concepts, and operations. Gradually, children will receive different views from reading and carry out analysis and criticism.
The research field is reading psychology Chen Minglei, assistant professor at the Taiwan Language and Language Education Institute of Hsinchu Education University, explained that theories believe that thirteen or fourteen years old is a critical period for developing diverse perspectives, which is related to the maturity of the cerebral cortex. At this time, children begin to leave the fairy tale world of "black or white" and experience the contradictions and complexity of life. If you have mastered your reading in the previous stage, you may develop a diverse perspective through reading. "This is impossible to hurry and cannot intervene early," Chen Minglei emphasized.
However, domestic and foreign studies have found that from the age of nine, the interest in reading will gradually become worse. Lin Meiling, principal of Taipei Shidong Primary School, who once studied the reading interests of middle and senior primary school students, found that the low interest in reading in middle and senior primary school students in middle and senior primary schools is mainly because older children have good abilities, wide interests, and increased autonomy. Doing a lot of things can satisfy their lives, and they don’t have to read.
Six methods to help children pass the wall of thinking
After the child is nine years old, his life will be more diverse and complex. It is necessary to arouse interest in reading and guide thinking from reading. It cannot happen naturally. It requires spending time to repel the wall of thinking standing in front of him.
☆Method 1: Choose a book with depth
starts with human tension and in-depth stories, or detective reasoning books. Letting older children with high autonomy choose the books they want to read by themselves is also a good way to trigger reading motivation.
☆ Method 2: Use reading aloud as children's guide
Owl Parent-Child Education Association Secretary-General Li Yuanfang believes that reading stories to children not only helps to arouse interest in reading, but also helps children from "looking at the plot" to "paying attention to details", helping them understand and think. After a few times, the child will get used to slow down and read books, read details and think. But reading for a child is a preparation, "You have to read the book first, you have to be fascinated by a certain plot or paragraph, and you have a strong feeling about the part you want to guide him," she emphasized.
☆Method 3: Take time to read idle books
There are many heavy lessons and many interesting things. "No time to read" is the "big enemy" of older children's reading. Luo Guojun, president of Lianhe Evening News, still maintains the habit of reading widely when she goes to high school. When she goes to junior high school, she will not watch TV, and there will be restrictions on the Internet time. I use the time I take the subway to and from school to read my favorite books twenty minutes a day; I will definitely leave time to read books "outside textbooks" on weekends.
The son of Hong Zhipeng, marketing director of American Shangmouzhi, is in his first year of high school and still spends time reading his favorite books every day. He went to a public high school and had no tutoring and could read freely more time than other classmates. Reading books is actually a way of expressing pressure for him.
☆Method 4: Contact with multiple fields and do not partially eat reading
Multi-dimensional reading will help children form a diverse view of things, but partially eat is normal. When facing children who read partially eat, what parents can do is to bring them more contact with books from different fields, share the books you are reading with him, bring different worlds to him and his ears, and then tell yourself: The road to reading is far away, he only has insects in his eyes today, who knows whether tomorrow will become in love with reasoning or adventure?
After junior high school, your reading preference will become more and more obvious. Many parents lament that as soon as their children go to junior high school, they are not interested or capable of reading the books they read. At this time, the children will look for communities to discuss. Luo Guojun and his wife both prefer to read literature and history, but their daughter is very interested in biology and medicine, so she went to foreign websites to discuss with netizens. The content of parent-child conversations on the table was mixed with literature, history, current affairs, medicine, and biology.
☆Method 5: Ask questions and discuss together
Luo Guojun believes that history is a good material to cultivate opinions and stimulate thinking. He likes to ask his daughter what will happen later if this historical figure makes another decision? For example, when the father and daughter talked about Lincoln's liberation of black slaves, he asked: "If you were Lincoln, would you make such a choice? Why did you make such a decision in that time and space? Is it really as noble as described by later generations?"
☆ Method 6: Instead of limiting it, it is better to use good coins to eliminate bad coins
0 Hong Zhipeng smiled and said: "It is difficult to prevent reading pornography and violence. I grew up like this." He knew that his son reads everything, and as long as he saw a lot and diversity enough, he would not worry. Li Yuanfang recalled that she was a regular customer of a bookstore when she was a child. "I read everything, romance, pornography, and Stories from a Chinese Studio. You can't forbidden it, that is the process of exploring in words. You can only study good books for him, and get rid of bad coins. When he tastes good things, he will be able to distinguish them." Thinking requires teaching and practice. The family does not have to play a serious learning role like in school, but the atmosphere of discussion and sharing within the family is a fertile ground for children's thinking ability.
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