It helps to improve children's language expression ability.
The interaction between parents and children in the process of reading picture books is not only the cornerstone of understanding pictures, but also the cornerstone of mastering language. A good picture book can let the baby walk into the story, stimulate the interest expressed by the baby, and thus improve the language expression ability.
For children with immature language development, abstract words such as "love", "happiness" and "pain" are difficult to understand and master, and picture books can convey these concepts in a graphic way, helping children to establish their own accurate, vivid and vivid language use schema in vivid pictures. For example, in Guess how much I love you, Big Nutbrown hare and Little Nutbrown hare express their love for each other through the changes of body language, and constantly sublimate the content of love, so that children can vividly feel the connotation and essence of love. In addition, Sandak's trilogy "Animal Country", "Rhapsody on a Cooking Night" and "In that Far Away Place" all show the same theme: "How do children master all kinds of emotions-anger, boredom, fear, frustration and jealousy, and try to accept the story of life", so that children can experience all kinds of emotions through stories and understand the meaning of these emotions.
Help to promote the healthy development of children's personality.
Russell, a famous educator, believes that character education has been basically completed before the child is 6 years old, and it will be consolidated on the basis of the past after the age of 6. There is an old saying in China that "at the age of five, it becomes a habit; at the age of sixty, it becomes a habit". For a person's life, a lot of knowledge can be made up by continuing education or other means. It's just that the cultivation of personality is shaped and basically shaped since childhood, and it's difficult to correct it after stereotypes. Therefore, preschool is the cornerstone of children's personality shaping, an important period of moral education and the best period for the formation of good psychological quality. Reading picture books about excellent moral character, children's innate imitation ability will inspire and urge them to learn from the excellent characters in the book, and they will unconsciously follow their example and try to get closer to them in life. For example, the series "Polly Bunny's Character Cultivation" vividly reproduces all kinds of problems that children encounter in their daily lives with warm and kind stories, while the reckless, naughty and gentle and kind Polly Bunny teaches children a lot about how to face difficulties, how to overcome fears, how to care about others and how to get along with others. As long as reading is guided correctly, children can be influenced imperceptibly, cultivate a sound and attractive personality and build a bridge to society.
It helps children to form an image thinking mode and enrich their imagination.
Children's imagination is not born, but acquired through direct or indirect experience. The richer the experience, the richer the imagination. But our traditional education is mostly written and linguistic thinking, and there are few images.
Picture books provide a good platform for children to develop the habit of thinking in images, because the biggest feature of picture books is to form a complete story with a series of coherent pictures, which are based on pictures and combined with pictures and texts. Therefore, reading picture books can cultivate children's good image concept, improve thinking coherence and enrich imagination. Monique Flix's masterpiece The Book Without Words, a series of works, vividly shows the unique consciousness and emotional world of smart and lovely mice, and the pictures provide unlimited imagination for children.
It is helpful to cultivate children's inquiry ability.
The children are curious. When reading picture books, they always want to get the process and results of story development from the pictures. Therefore, the process of children reading picture books is a process of finding problems, asking questions and finding answers, which is also a process of continuous exploration. For example, Holzwart's picture book Who Uh-huh is on my head uses "uh-huh", that is, "poop", as the protagonist. The story tells the story of an unlucky little mole who found out which bad guy's "uh-huh" fell on his head and humorously led the children to know the poop of various animals. Another example is "Where is the wind?" By the United States left Rotov, with the text "Where is the wind?" At the beginning, the author puts forward "questions" with beautiful pictures to stimulate children's thinking interest, and tells a praise for the circular chain of everything with lyrical words and colorful pictures. Based on the experiences of two children, The House on the Ground 100 Floor and the House on the Underground 100 Floor tells about the small animals, their environment, distance and location from the ground, their living habits and fascinating contents, which opens a harmonious and unified animal world for children. It turns out that they also have their own lives. Picture books can use pictures to catch children's attention and stimulate their interest in inquiry. When children wander around the picture book world, their ability to explore together will develop with their growing knowledge and rich imagination.
Helps to enhance parent-child feelings and promote the healthy development of children's body and mind.
0-6 years old is the key period to cultivate children's reading interest and habits. The reading mode at this stage should be parent-child reading, which is not only the main way for children to absorb knowledge, but also an emotional demand. Reading picture books about affection can help children understand the profound meaning of affection. For example, My Mom and My Dad written by Brown in England, with the help of children's innocent and proud tone, describes the omnipotent parents in children's minds, and draws a happy family scene in which parents love their children, are happy and harmonious, and can feel warm and warm affection during reading. Psychologist Dr. sigman put forward that "parent-child reading 10 minutes before going to bed is not only helpful for children to fall asleep, but also conducive to the development of their immune system, listening skills and imagination". Therefore, reading picture books can not only enhance parent-child feelings, but also benefit children's healthy growth.
It helps to cultivate children's aesthetic feeling and ability.
Classic picture books are all drawn by famous artists and artists who know children's psychology best. They use painting skills brilliantly to interpret vivid stories through exquisite pictures, so that picture books have the beauty of color, lines and composition, as well as language, rhythm and story. For example, the rainbow fish created by Max Fest in Switzerland tells children the true meaning of life through the experience of a rainbow fish with shiny scales: if you share it with friends, the pain will be halved; Sharing happiness with friends will double happiness. The illustrations in this picture book are vivid and full of modernity by using ink painting techniques and incorporating traditional elements of Chinese painting. The waterscape in the picture seems to be rippling and floating, giving readers beautiful enjoyment.
Some picture books also use paper-cutting, watercolor, oil painting and other painting forms, becoming a "comprehensive art" with high aesthetic value. Consciously letting children read these exquisite picture books can not only cultivate their color perception ability, help them establish a correct aesthetic view and improve their appreciation level, but also stimulate their enthusiasm for creating beauty, help them step into the art hall and benefit them for life.
It helps children to expand their knowledge and promote all-round development.
With the development of science, picture books permeated with science education came into being. Many picture books show the fascinating world of science to children with traditional elegant painting methods, lively plots and interesting and vivid images, and guide children to yearn for and love science. For example, The Little Encyclopedia of Dandelion Science, edited and published by China Oriental Editorial Group, is a fascinating encyclopedia, covering animals and plants, astronomy, geography, meteorology, physics, chemistry and other fields, which is simple and interesting. In addition, my "Little Encyclopedia of Lalus" is known as the "father of the world encyclopedia", which tells children about nature, science and technology, humanities, history, health and other aspects simply and happily in a clear and illustrated way. Reading this kind of picture books not only opens a window to the world for children, expands the scope of life and study, but also lays a good foundation for future scientific knowledge learning.
Picture books are the first door to children's world. Choose picture books for children with your heart, and different stories are hidden in different worlds.