Extensive reading is one of the basic skills to cultivate children's Chinese literacy, and it can even be said that reading is the basis of Chinese learning. A lot of extracurricular reading is an irreplaceable means to improve children's Chinese level. Klassen, an American psychologist, has done a psychological experimental study, which shows that students' interesting extracurricular reading plays a much greater role in improving their writing ability than mechanical writing training.
Almost all children with good Chinese scores like extracurricular books. These children often have a lot of accumulation: the accumulation of words, the accumulation of materials, the accumulation of emotions and so on. Such children often have outstanding thoughts and magical words in writing, outstanding opinions in reading comprehension, and superior knowledge in speaking. In short, they are well-informed and have a solid foundation in Chinese.
According to the age characteristics of children, in the lower grades, we recommend them to read some folk stories, fairy tales, fables and so on. Middle and senior grades recommend reading children's literature, essays, newspapers and magazines, science fiction comics, historical masterpieces, literary masterpieces, biographies of celebrities and other books with different types and contents, and remove all kinds of artificial restrictions, so that children can choose different kinds of books according to their own interests and needs, and draw the required nutrition from them.
Understanding ability is a kind of Chinese accomplishment, which is not as easy to form as memory ability, and needs patience and long-term accumulation. Persisting in reading is an effective way to cultivate understanding ability. In particular, reading more beautiful and ambitious essays is very helpful to improve your understanding ability.
Extensive reading is not only one of the basic skills of children's Chinese literacy, but also an important condition for children to become talents. Because rich knowledge is an indispensable condition for creativity, and it is also one of the ways to increase knowledge and source wisdom.
What needs to be emphasized here is that children must not stay away from classics when they grow up. It is necessary to train children to read classics from an early age, step by step. For example, in primary school, children can read comic books adapted from famous books, and in senior primary school, children can read simplified versions of some famous books specially for children. When you enter junior high school, you must get in touch with the classic original works.
We suggest that a child should read at least 500 extra-curricular books from primary school to high school graduation, and it is better to read at least 1000. Including 100 biographies of people from all walks of life to lay the foundation for children's outlook on life, values and world outlook. At the same time, we should pay attention not only to reading, but also to writing reading notes or book reviews.
Teacher's suggestion: read more books. What do you mean more? This is a vague concept. Parents can give their children relatively clear requirements, such as reading for 30 minutes every day or reading a book every two weeks.
Step 2 recite the classics
Reciting classic articles, famous sayings and good sentences is also one of the basic skills to cultivate children's Chinese literacy. If the children who graduated from middle school can recite 150 ancient and modern poems, 25 vernacular poems, 40 exquisite classical Chinese, 10 exquisite modern vernacular, and more than 200 ancient and modern Chinese and foreign aphorisms. Then, his knowledge of Chinese should be good. If a child is allowed to memorize a large number of classic famous sentences before the golden time of memory-16 years old, then the child has laid a solid Chinese foundation since childhood.
If we can't guide children to read in the golden age of reading and reciting, let them talk with history, communicate with nobility and collide with wisdom in books, and lay a solid and heavy foundation for literary literacy and humanistic literacy, then it is difficult for children to become noble, civilized and creative modern people in the future.
Step 3 get into the habit of keeping a diary
Diary can cultivate children's observation ability, thinking ability, analysis and discrimination ability, enhance children's self-discipline, improve children's writing ability and self-reflection ability, and more importantly, hone children's willpower and accumulate composition materials.
The benefits of keeping a diary greatly exceed the imagination of educators. Develop the habit of keeping a diary step by step. At first, you can write shorter sentences, one or two sentences a day, three or five lines a day, and gradually improve your growth. The content is also eclectic, and everything can be written, imagined, realistic, domestic and foreign, from astronomy to geography, from national events to trivial matters, and so on. You must remember everything you hear, everything you do, everything you see and everything you feel. But there must be no phenomenon of fishing for three days and drying the net for two days. Even a sentence or two should be written down, which is ridiculous and unconventional, but it must be written down in order to cultivate habits. If it is terminated, all previous efforts will be in vain.