At what age can literacy begin? Yesterday in the mother's group chat, a few mothers are very anxious about their children's literacy, and keep asking other children in the group how much literacy they have, whether it is good to buy a literacy card, recognize a few words every day, and which one is good to read the pen.....
I really couldn't stand it, and said, "In fact, every child has a literacy sensitive period, when he/she one day seriously pointed to the big characters on the book and asked his parents what it was, it means that he/she has reached the stage, of course, it is not excluded that he/she may think that the shape of this word is beautiful." ”
As soon as this remark came out, a mother actually said that her child was more than a year old and took a literacy card to recognize words, and asked me in the group if her child's literacy sensitivity period was relatively early, and I didn't reply after reading it.
In fact, when I saw the chats in these mothers' groups, what I want to tell them more is, do you accompany your children to do parent-child reading? Are you serious about interacting with your children about reading?
At what age literacy begins, in fact, it is not the parents who have the final say, nor the 3 or 5-year-old as experts say, but the children themselves.
When raising Dabao, I actually felt like most mothers, I felt that my child was a genius, and everything had to be taught in advance, otherwise I would be caught up by others, as small as I went to the toilet independently, as big as reading and reading, and tried my best to teach him.
Dabao's literacy, but also experienced a sad process, six months old black and white cards kept shaking, 8 months when I began to read picture books, I would grab his little finger to point to the word and say something to him, the whole story is told, now I think it is boring, it is difficult for him to sit for an hour to listen to me;
At the age of two and a month, the literacy card was also arranged, and then after half a year, I found that the above actions were useless, because she couldn't remember a word at all, and my mood became more and more irritable, there was no way to tell her picture books, and in the back, Dabao didn't dare to take the book to tell her a story, and at that time, I actually thought that my child might not be the material for reading.
But the child's father suddenly said one day: Why do you tell a story as if you have a task, you have to learn something for the child to be old.
I suddenly realized that in fact, I am not telling a story, I am completing the task with a utilitarian mentality, I have not thought about whether the child likes it or not, only I think I should do it, and the real parent-child reading is to integrate into the picture book with the child, to feel the joys, sorrows and sorrows in the book, if I can't feel the excitement of the picture book, how can the child know what kind of story the picture book tells.
After realizing this, I readjusted my mentality, no longer holding the purpose of knowing all the words after reading this picture book, but thinking about how to make Dabao fall in love with reading, like reading, like myself, reading is the nutrient that enriches my spiritual world, and it should not make people who read feel afraid.
After re-understanding parent-child reading, I roughly categorized the picture books at home, and then picked Dabao's favorite ones according to her interests.
Because the child's father loved to read comic books when he was a child, he grew up to have a hobby of collecting comic books, one day he bought a large set of four famous comic books and put them in the study, Dabao was two years old, somehow she turned it out, and looked at it with relish for a long time, you must know that two-year-old children are not literate at all, that is, to read pictures, now comic books are different from black and white when we were children, the pictures are colorful, the landscapes, characters, expressions and other paintings are lifelike, very vivid, Dabao loves to see.
After I found out, I took out one or two comic books to read with the child every night before going to bed, she read the pictures and I read the content, because the comic book is relatively small, very easy to carry, we will go out and put one or two in our pockets, and when we are bored on the road, I will take it out to read, after reading for about two months, Dabao can intermittently tell some fragments of "Journey to the West", which surprised me very much.
Sometimes she took out a booklet and pretended to read it, many of the words in it she probably didn't know, but she could basically retell the story according to the pictures, which laid a good foundation for her speech and expression during that time, and also buried her deep interest in literary masterpieces.
Later, I bought her the same series of "Tang Poems", "Song Ci", "Idiom Stories" and other comic books, she liked them very much, nothing to take out and turn over, a whole year, now my family is in junior high school, I remember that there is a unit of Chinese in the fourth or fifth grade of primary school dedicated to the four masterpieces, the teacher also praised her, saying that she knows the most about the four masterpieces in the class, and the understanding is also the most profound, of course, she almost did not lose too much when it comes to the exam questions of the four masterpieces, I think it was the result of accompanying her to watch comic books at that time.
I don't think any child can resist the temptation of comic books, the picture quality is beautiful and the content is exquisite, all of them are the essence and focus of refinement, especially suitable for younger children to read.
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When she was in kindergarten class, she began to consciously want to read and write, every day when she went out to see a word, she would ask me what kind of word this was, what kind of word was that, and when she was reading at home, she would consciously point to the word and read it with me, I knew that her literacy sensitive period had arrived.
One day, she came back from kindergarten and said that the teacher had told them a fairy tale called "The Scarecrow Tells the Weather" and asked me to buy it all back and show it to her. After consulting the teacher, I learned that this is a collection of fairy tales, because after elementary school, I have to specialize in learning fairy tales, myths, Western fables, etc., so I am currently reading this kind of book with my children, and recommended a set of "365 Nights Bedtime Stories" to me, and the "Scarecrow Weather" is one of the books in this set.
I bought the set of "365 Nights Bedtime Stories" for my children, and found that they were all classic fairy tales that we are familiar with, and they are in many primary school textbooks, such as Nuwa Makes a Man, Hou Yi Shoots the Sun, the Emperor's New Clothes, and so on.
Listening to these magical fairy tales and mythological stories, the child's imagination can fly far, far away, sometimes after listening to a story, she also likes to extend the ending by herself, and sometimes she will make up some follow-up according to the content of the story, as if she has opened her eyes all of a sudden, and her thoughts have become very broad.
At the same time, because this book has pinyin, and at this time the child needs pinyin assistance to recognize words, and it just so happens that pinyin helps the child develop a sense of language, and she reads more, and the sense of language is naturally good.
So I don't understand why many children just went to primary school because pinyin can drive parents crazy, after my eldest went to primary school, she said that her pinyin in the class was the best, and the teacher called her "pinyin little expert", I think it may also be a good foundation laid at that time.
Since Dabao began to consciously recognize words, I will start to buy some picture books with more words when I buy books, and at the age of five and a half, I bought him the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" series and "Journey to the West" series of picture books, these two sets of picture books are mainly easy to understand and vivid and interesting in words, each of these books is read by parents and children for no less than a month, like "Journey to the West", this set basically has to be talked about several times a month.
In this process, I have always followed the principle of slowness, once he feels rejected by a book with more words, I will stop, go back, never force him to read it, but let him read it slowly, to feel the connection between words and pictures, to understand the meaning of words, and now it seems that I did the right thing at that time.
When my child is six and a half years old, he can basically read independently, and he can complete his homework in the first grade of primary school without me being next to him.
Therefore, there is no shortcut to parenting in the world, whether it is a big exercise or literacy, it is necessary to follow the laws of children's development.
Back to the original question, at what age can literacy begin? It's not 3 years old, it's not 5 years old, it may not be now, the answer actually lies in the child, and what we parents can do is to read with the child as much as possible, you don't need to have a beautiful voice, and you don't need to have an exaggerated expression, as long as you can sit down and quietly tell the child a picture book is enough, please leave the rest to the child, time will give us the answer.
Author: Wait for the wind to come
A working mother of two children, holding a pen in her left hand and a baby in her right hand, she likes to read, write, and paint, and firmly believes that even if she lives in a chicken feather, she must have her own poetry and distance in her heart.
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