When choosing English story books for children, we should not only guide them according to their age, but also cooperate with the appropriate story types.
For example, a one-year-old to three-year-old child, whose small muscles are not very mature, is interested in turning pages. At this time, if you give him a general story book, he may have read it several times. The story book is either missing pages or being dismembered by five horses.
So at this stage, you can prepare some cardboard books and read them to him page by page when the child is in a good state. Otherwise, let the children browse at will, and then find a chance to say "look at the dog!" " "Look at that boy. "What is this? Of course, the words in the book should be short and pithy, and the font must be big and clear.
Children aged four to six are more receptive to the diversity of stories. Parents can choose stories from topics that children are familiar with, such as children going to school, learning to go to the toilet, keeping pets, having brothers and sisters, monsters in the room, etc.
Of course, because it is an English story, in the early days, the more illustrations in the book, the better, the clearer the better, and the simpler the text. On the one hand, parents will not have too much difficulty in reading, on the other hand, children will not have too much pressure. It would be better if we could find an audio book as an aid and add some sound effects.
Parents who want to cultivate their children's English ability with English picture books at first can grasp several key points: few words (don't put too much pressure on their children), clear pictures (you can guess the meaning by looking at the pictures) and high repetition of sentence patterns. By repeating sentence patterns, children can easily follow. The most common example is brown bear, brown bear, what do you see? "(william martin & ampEric Carle, Jr.), the story keeps repeating" Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see? "I see a red bird looking at me. "Hong Niao, Hong Niao, what do you see? I see a yellow duck looking at me. "It's easy for children to remember, and even apply it as" Mommy, Mommy, what do you see? "Come and play games.
For preschool children, this kind of picture book with high repetition and even singing is a good way to make children speak English.