Create a reading environment for children
Aidan chambers (UK)
Yes, reading really has a profound impact on our lives. Children who are willing to study must be rich. We all expect children to like reading, so we will buy them a room full of books, and then passively wait for them to read spontaneously. If children don't do this, we will be disappointed to announce: "My children don't like reading!" " In fact, we have overlooked a very important thing: reading actually needs guidance! As emphasized in this book:
"If our young readers can have a trustworthy adult to provide him with all kinds of help and share his reading experience, then he can easily eliminate all kinds of reading obstacles. It is difficult for an adult who never reads or lacks reading experience to help his children, which is why I emphasize that the central point of the reading cycle is' an adult with the ability to help'.
Mom's role is the most important. Childhood is a critical period for the development of a person's early reading and writing ability. Children begin to develop their language and literacy before the age of three. Research shows that children's exposure to books directly affects their reading and learning performance at school. In recent years, parents have become more and more aware of the importance of improving their children's early literacy.
A mother who likes reading, a mother who knows how to publish children's books, and a mother who knows how to develop children's minds are the most important adults to cultivate early children's reading habits and abilities. Parent-child reading is the most important form of family reading, and picture books are the most suitable form of children's books for parent-child reading.
Reading more books is the most effective way and practice for readers and children to have a dialogue, establish long-term associations and share experiences.
"Storytelling" is not copying the contents of the book, but a way suitable for children's language and story text. We should also pay attention to the state of children's readers when listening to the lecture, attract their attention, mobilize their senses, and let them listen through interaction. Storytelling is the most typical and effective reading promotion method for readers, and it is also an effective way to cultivate loyal readers.
So, how do we tell stories?
In the book "Read After Me: The Method of Reading", Liz Waterland did not mention some practical practices:
Adults must read the whole story for their children before they learn to read. After children gradually learn to read, they can slowly learn to read stories by themselves. At first, they may only read a few words they are familiar with. Slowly, after accumulating more and more words, they can read the whole story by themselves.
In the process of children learning to read by themselves, if there are stories or unfamiliar words that he thinks are too difficult, adults should often help. We don't have to emphasize to our children: "After you have learned the pronunciation of all the new words with two syllables, try to pronounce the words with three syllables." When a child tries to pronounce a long new word, we just praise him, even though he may accidentally pronounce it wrong.
So, what can teachers do in this process? The skills used to help children become readers are actually the same as those used by teachers when teaching other subjects. Jerome Bruner, an educational psychologist, expounded this concept as follows:
At first, the teacher should first catch the child's attention, and then slowly present the whole work in a more dramatic way. In this respect, the teacher has a unique insight, and can clearly grasp the child's ability to understand the length and difficulty of the story, and help the child understand every link of the story in a way that the child can accept before he can read it completely independently. The teacher's job is to use the so-called "zone of proximal development", that is, a rough cognitive area that children have established before they understand and master a subject, to guide their children to learn.
In other words, the teacher did something for the children that they could not do; On the other hand, it can be said that he is guiding children to do something that he can't do. In this whole learning process, children will slowly take over the whole story reading work from the beginning, and teachers can happily transfer this work to children.
Therefore, reading stories to children is the only process to help children become real readers. In fact, most people always think that only young children (people used to call this stage learning reading period) need adults to read stories to them, which is wrong. The whole process from learning to establishing reading habits can be regarded as a long-term plan, and we really underestimate the time needed for this learning stage. Therefore, the activity of reading stories has its value and necessity for all children in the learning stage.