As a mother, I pay special attention to the education of my children. In addition to understanding the domestic education situation, we will also compare the foreign education system and advanced concepts. For example, China's primary education focuses on imparting basic knowledge and cultivating children's basic learning skills and logical thinking ability; American primary education attaches importance to making children have the ability to adapt to society, helping them to know themselves and build up their self-confidence.

It can be said that China and the United States have their own strengths in basic education, and it would be great if they could learn from each other and absorb the advantages of the two kinds of education.

There is a set of books that can just meet our needs. American Preschool/Pupil General Medicine is an exercise book that is synchronized with the American primary school syllabus. The whole set of books has 8 volumes. The first two volumes are pre-school education (4-5 years old and 5-6 years old), and the last six volumes are extracurricular exercises for primary school 1-6 grades. This set of books has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and will always occupy the golden position of children in major bookstores in the United States.

The author of this book is Liana? Onisi is an educator with professional level and rich experience, and also participated in the compilation of many children's education books, magazines, games and classroom teaching materials. Her study books are both professional and interesting, and are widely praised by American parents and students.

Reading this set of books is equivalent to experiencing the primary education in the United States at the same time and enjoying the treatment of "small international students" at home.

Pronunciation is an English learning method that links letters with pronunciation.

Unlike Chinese, English is a phonetic symbol, and all words are composed of 26 letters. The core of natural spelling is to establish an intuitive sense of sound between words and pronunciations by mastering the pronunciation rules of letters and letter combinations, so that children can spell words after seeing them, and they can also dictate them through the pronunciation rules after hearing the pronunciation of a word. If mastered well, children can read about 70% of the words in elementary English fluently without looking at phonetic symbols.

The advantages of natural spelling are officially stamped. On the basis of a long-term sampling survey and a large number of data studies, the National Reading Research Group (NRP) released a research report in 2000, confirming that natural spelling is the best way to teach students to read and improve their reading ability, and then this teaching method began to be widely used in primary education in North America.

However, it is difficult for children in China to master natural spelling. Unlike Pinyin, English letters and basic pronunciation are not in one-to-one correspondence, but more complicated and changeable. For example, the pronunciation of the letter a in "eat" and "bat" is different; The letter c is pronounced |k| in cabbage, but |s| in the city.

The natural spelling chapter in the general practice of American preschool/primary school students condenses words into one pronunciation, which is convenient for children to remember and read repeatedly through the pronunciation represented by "letters". At the same time, these chapters have both Chinese translation and English original texts, which are very suitable for parents to accompany them in reading guidance.

Besides spelling, children in China have many difficulties in learning English, such as vocabulary, sentence patterns, singular and plural, tenses, etc., which are also involved in the book. There are no lengthy concepts here, only simple and interesting examples to help children understand the connotation of grammar in repeated practice.

American Preschool/Pupil General Medicine is not a real American textbook, but it belongs to extracurricular practical reading, but it covers all subjects in the American curriculum, which is very suitable for parents and children to read as a supplement to classroom education.

Take the first grade textbook as an example. The book includes natural spelling, spelling and vocabulary, reading and writing, language art, sorting and arrangement, mathematical skills, addition and subtraction, shape and measurement, time and money, social science, science and so on. As long as it is the knowledge that children may come into contact with in their lives, almost all of them are involved in the book.

First-year English learning focuses on words and short sentences, but children have been asked to analyze the story, scenes, characters, themes and so on. , and the topic is wide. While learning words, they can also learn knowledge of history, astronomy, mathematics and so on, so as to achieve the goal of killing two birds with one stone.

In social and scientific sports, the knowledge of design is relatively simple, but it is superior in covering a wide range of aspects, such as material properties, animals, seasonal climate, local ecology and so on. There is always one that can interest children.

If children are found to be interested in science, it is suggested to watch Magic School Bus and Magic Tree House together. Tree House), National Geographic Children's Edition and other books. If you have spare time to study, you can also log on to Scholastic website, which is the most commonly used book selection website for American primary and secondary school students. Many excellent children's books are recommended according to age and grade, so that children of different ages and reading abilities can find their own good feelings.

Compared with rational cognition, perceptual cognition (emotional perception and five senses) is more beneficial for children to understand knowledge and stimulate their interest in learning.

At this point, this set of books is well done. Each chapter combines knowledge points with bright and interesting pictures, and we can learn by "watching" and "reading" interesting pictures. The exercises attached to the book are interesting and interactive, more like a game. The children finish their exercises while playing games. How can they not be interested in learning?

Each book is accompanied by a bilingual mini question and answer card, a certificate of "Super Brain Award" and a large poster of "100 Species". More sweetly, I prepared a sticker of 150 Zhang Mengmeng for my children, and I couldn't put it down after reading it.

In addition to helping children play middle school, this book is also very friendly to parents. In order to facilitate parents to accompany them, each unit has a knowledge box to point out the core points, and at the end of the book, there are exercises to help parents evaluate their children's answers. Although this is a book with more than 300 pages, the quality is excellent, the glue is firm and it is easy to turn over. The corners of each page are also designed into arcs, which will not hurt children during the turning process.

Cultivating children's interest in learning is much more important than how much knowledge they have memorized. Just as the propaganda slogan of "American preschool/elementary school students' general practice" is "cleverness has its own fun", let children believe that learning knowledge can also be fun, which is the best gift our parents can give their children. If a child looks forward to learning every day, rather than completing the learning task mechanically, then this interest will support him to go further and learn more happily.