Gorky said: "Books are the ladder of human progress, lifelong companions and sincere friends." Therefore, early reading is the basis of lifelong learning. As kindergarten teachers, how to guide and cultivate children's early reading ability in picture book reading is a topic that we should always pay attention to and study. Facing the market full of picture books, we should adopt a scientific attitude and a rational mind, so that early reading activities can really stimulate children's interest in reading and let them develop good reading habits that will benefit them for life.

When it comes to story books, many children are no strangers. Before going to bed at night, my mother always tells a story to her baby with a story book and a story picture. At this time, children began to tell stories with the dancing of their mother's fingertips and high and low, and came into contact with the charm of reading. Picture book reading can make children feel more interesting in reading and cultivate their early reading ability in picture book reading.

First, what is a picture book?

Picture books, called picture books in English and picture books in Japan, are "picture books" as the name implies. Pictures in picture books are as important as words, and sometimes even pictures are more important than words. The main feature of picture books is to provide readers with real or aesthetic experience visually. The content of picture books often has a simple story outline, and sometimes it revolves around some simple meanings and structures. Some people say: "The reading of picture books is elegant reading. Wonderful pictures, exquisite stories and exquisite designs are just like enjoying a wonderful performance in a magnificent concert hall; The reading of picture books is noble reading, just like the rain and dew in spring seeping into children's hearts; The reading of picture books is noble reading, talking to masters, enjoying the exquisiteness of childhood, sharing and reveling in the warmth and touch of the soul that crosses time and space and cultures. " For kindergarten children, this is what they like and what they can accept. Reading in the form of this picture can more collide and resonate with children's thinking.

The pages of picture books are generally between twenty and forty pages, and each page consists of a large number of pictures and a small amount of text. To tell a story clearly and interestingly with these dozens of pictures and a small amount of words, we must emphasize the coordination of pictures and words, and emphasize the narrative and coherence of pictures, that is to say, pictures, like words, must also have the ability to tell stories. Therefore, in picture books, pictures are at least as important as words, even if they are not absolutely dominant. Words are like a string of beads, which define the backbone and direction of the story; The picture is like a bead, and the theme and details of the story depend on it to show, which mainly reflects the interest of the picture book. All these need to guide children to observe the picture carefully and expand their imagination to understand. In a book with no words or only a few words, telling stories entirely by pictures requires higher narrative ability of pictures. Of course, it has cultivated children's expressive ability and innovative thinking ability. Having said that, the uniqueness of picture books is obvious.

Second, why should we cultivate children's early reading ability?

The "Guidelines for Kindergarten Education" shows the new development direction that language education attaches importance to preschool children's early reading, and it is the first time to explicitly incorporate the requirements of preschool children's early reading into the target system of language education, "to cultivate children's interest in common simple marks and characters; Use books, paintings and other forms to stimulate children's interest in books, reading and writing, and cultivate pre-reading and pre-writing skills. " Many studies today show that a person's reading ability is related to his future academic performance, and it is also the basic condition for this person to successfully engage in various jobs in the future. It is generally regarded as the foundation of people's success in today's society. Picture book is the first book that children see on the road of life, and it is also the most important book that people have read in their long reading career. How much happiness a child experiences from picture books will determine whether he likes reading all his life. Children's early reading is inseparable from the number of pages in picture books, which are generally between 20 and 40 pages, and each page consists of a large number of pictures and a small amount of text. To tell a story clearly and interestingly with these dozens of pictures and a small amount of words, we must emphasize the coordination of pictures and words, and emphasize the narrative and coherence of pictures, that is to say, pictures, like words, must also have the ability to tell stories. Therefore, in picture books, pictures are at least as important as words, even if they are not absolutely dominant. Words are like a string of beads, which define the backbone and direction of the story; The picture is like a bead, and the theme and details of the story depend on it to show, which mainly reflects the interest of the picture book. All these need to guide children to observe the picture carefully and expand their imagination to understand. In a book with no words or only a few words, telling stories entirely by pictures requires higher narrative ability of pictures. Of course, it has cultivated children's expressive ability and innovative thinking ability. Having said that, the uniqueness of picture books is obvious.

Second, why should we cultivate children's early reading ability?

The "Guidelines for Kindergarten Education" shows the new development direction that language education attaches importance to preschool children's early reading, and it is the first time to explicitly incorporate the requirements of preschool children's early reading into the target system of language education, "to cultivate children's interest in common simple marks and characters; Use books, paintings and other forms to stimulate children's interest in books, reading and writing, and cultivate pre-reading and pre-writing skills. " Many studies today show that a person's reading ability is related to his future academic performance, and it is also the basic condition for this person to successfully engage in various jobs in the future. It is generally regarded as the foundation of people's success in today's society. Picture book is the first book that children see on the road of life, and it is also the most important book that people have read in their long reading career. How much happiness a child experiences from picture books will determine whether he likes reading all his life. Children's early reading is inseparable from picture books, and their reading career begins with reading picture books.

But now let's look at our children. If the TV is on all day at home, these children who spend hours watching cartoons every day don't really like reading books. Even if they look at it, they will only look at it at most, and it will take less than a minute to turn from the title page to the end. In fact, cartoons attract children more than books. The attraction of cartoons to children can be said to be understood at first sight and fascinated at first sight, but what is going on? The reason is also obvious. Today's adults grow up in the era of reading and writing, while today's children grow up in an audio-visual atmosphere, and the way of cultural transmission and acceptance has undergone historic changes. In recent years, electronic digital products are rapidly infiltrating into our lives, and books have many strong competitors, such as computers, mobile phones, IPAD and so on. Now these electronic products have "completely" penetrated into our lives, and almost many people can't live without them. Nowadays, parents sometimes play with these electronic digital products in front of their children intentionally or unintentionally, and children will feel very curious, thinking about what is in those little black boxes that attract their parents so much, and also want to try to play. Many parents think that these electronic digital products are an important medium for their children to learn and make a living, so they sometimes let their children play and fiddle with them. However, the interactive programs of these electronic digital products are very easy to attract children. Children's self-control ability is not very good nowadays. Once they are addicted to the games on these electronic digital products and don't know how to control their time, they won't like reading. Parents often wait until their children go to primary school before they are nervous that their children are not interested in reading. It is very difficult to cultivate reading interest at this time. And people's basic reading ability refers to the consciousness and skills of independent reading. The period of 3-8 years old is a critical period for the formation of people's basic reading ability. In this critical period, it is also the learning period of children in kindergarten. As our kindergarten teachers, it is very necessary to help children to establish a certain sense and ability of independent reading during this period.

Third, how to cultivate children's early reading ability in picture book reading

First of all, teachers should take free reading, collective teaching and free reading as the model to cultivate children's independent reading strategies. In the reading area of our class, I will put some picture books in this area in advance to encourage children to read them themselves and see what happens in the pictures. Please talk to your good friend. At this time, the teacher consciously pushed the children to the forefront of independent reading and let them contact these picture books first. At this time, we seem to leave them alone and let them have a look. In fact, this is not how we accomplish the task. Instead, we quietly observe the children's interest in picture books and their imagination of the pictures in the picture books, hide the teacher's dominance, and let the children read freely.

I remember that in the picture book teaching of large classes, I am not eager to let children know the plot content of the story, but show the pictures of the picture book to children, let them read and guess for themselves, and cultivate their ability to read the picture book. When I showed the first picture, there was a big bad wolf hiding behind a big tree. The big, bad wolf in the photo is so small that children need to observe it carefully to find it. At this time, I asked the children to carefully find out where the shy big bad wolf was hiding. At this time, after careful observation, the children found that the wolf was hiding behind the tree, and then I showed the second picture (the wolf was hiding behind the tree and there were many piglets sleeping in front). Then I asked again: Why is the wolf hiding behind the big tree? What's it thinking? Here I slowly guide children how to read picture books and let them learn to read and guess independently. Through the guidance of the picture, let the children imagine boldly and speak their thoughts bravely. The outline points out: create a free and relaxed language communication environment, support, encourage and attract children to talk with teachers and peers, and experience the fun of language communication. At this time, some children can boldly guess: at this time, the wolf must be thinking, wow! Seeing so many pigs here, it seems that I will have a big meal tonight! At this time, put the third picture (the wolf ran away) or let the children guess freely why the wolf ran away? After encouraging bold guessing in the above picture, children become much bolder and their ideas are gradually enriched. A child said: which carriage did he go to and put the pig back? Some children said: he went to take the pot and cook it directly.

After the bold guesses of the previous pictures, the children gradually became interested in the next story and couldn't wait to read it. At this time, the child already has the reading ability to read the picture book initially. In the next picture, I began to let the children imagine independently and cooperate with my peers to guess what happened in the story according to the content of the picture. At first, children were still bound by self-expression. After encouragement, children began to slowly let go of their nature, boldly guess, organize what happened in the picture through their own language, and boldly pointed out in the outline of "Telling in front of their peers" that children should be encouraged to express their thoughts and feelings in clear language and develop their language expression ability. In fact, the reading of picture books is to cultivate children's independent reading ability, children's expressive ability and innovative thinking ability. Through the development of these abilities, children's imaginative nature and early reading ability are liberated.

Of course, children's reading habits can not be formed in a day or two, or it can be said that reading habits are beneficial to children's lifelong development. This kind of training needs not only teaching thinking, but also the joint efforts of family education and many other aspects. We should believe that "reading in any way will determine how you take your children to read". Every thought and improvement we make is to make children study better and let them study. Suhomlinski said: "What a child sees on the wall of the school corridor, in the classroom and in the activity room is of great significance to the formation of his mental outlook. Don't arrange anything casually here. The environment around the child should be induced and inspired. " In short, through my own practical experience, early reading education in kindergarten is of great benefit to children, and the cultivation of children's independent reading ability is unparalleled for their life development.

Gorky said: "Books are the ladder of human progress, lifelong companions and sincere friends." Therefore, early reading is the basis of lifelong learning. As a kindergarten teacher, how to guide and cultivate children's reading interest and habits is the theme that we should always pay attention to and study. In the face of today's market full of picture books, we should be good at choosing the most suitable picture books from the cognitive and development needs of children of different ages with a scientific attitude and rational mind, so that early reading activities can really stimulate children's endless reading interest and enable them to develop good reading habits that will benefit them for life.