Let children fall in love with reading and enjoy reading
"This book made me realize that as long as we are full of courage in the face of difficulties, we can stimulate our own infinite potential, actively seek solutions, and overcome many difficulties and challenges that I thought were impossible to overcome." In early April, in Beijing At the opening ceremony of the 11th Middle School Reading Festival, Hu Mengkun, a classmate of the sixth grade of the school, recommended the book "Captain Grant's Daughter" to everyone. This book gave her the courage to overcome difficulties.
Reading is already a high-frequency word. Both teachers and parents know the importance of reading, and they all hope to cultivate children into people who love to read and can read.
However, there are also some readings that have been dyed utilitarian and become an accessory to learning and a shortcut to high scores.
Before the "double reduction", primary and secondary school students had endless remedial classes, homework and exams to complete. For them, reading was a luxury.
After the "double reduction", there is more time, and reading is no longer out of reach.
Today, when faced with reading, what confusion do teachers, parents and students have?
How to let reading get rid of utilitarianism and let children really enjoy reading?
Let's walk into them and chat with them about reading.
Utilitarian reading will dampen the reading interest of primary and secondary school students
"I hope that the reason why children like extracurricular reading is to help their studies and obtain useful content. Personally, I think that reading is not the source of sentiment, but the source of golden sentences when writing essays. Since children's understanding of topics in learning is at a normal level If there is no deviation, then forget about reading, anyway, there is a language class in school." A netizen spoke bluntly under the topic of "children's reading habit development".
From the perspective of primary school literacy reading teacher Huang Doudou, this phenomenon is very representative among parents: "From the perspective of parents, they will consider what their children have learned, how long it takes to improve their language performance, and whether they can read more exams and read faster. Do it better."
Ni Minjing, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, also pointed out, "Nowadays, children read less novels, and many children read some articles of chicken soup for the soul under the guidance of teachers or parents, mostly for exams. On some digital platforms, children read even Just to complete the check-in, for the ranking, this will have a certain alienation to the reading itself."
"For primary and secondary school students, utilitarian reading is mostly aimed at improving grades and using reading as a way to prepare for exams." Wang Fang, president of the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, said, "In the short term, we may see some 'Results', such as completing the reading tasks assigned by teachers or parents, writing in notebooks full of new words and difficult sentences that do not know how to use them, and doing several reading comprehension questions in order to get more points in the exam. In the long run, utilitarian reading needs to be treated carefully. Utilitarian reading will dampen the reading interest of primary and secondary school students, and excessive pursuit of fast reading will make students impetuous, and it is difficult to develop good reading habits, and it is difficult to cultivate solid, Comprehensive and systematic reading ability.”
Wang Fang believes that the "double reduction" policy has alleviated the tendency of utilitarian reading to a certain extent.
Subject-based off-campus training has been drastically reduced, weakening the force that holds children to read ahead.
"Double Minus" gives students more discretionary time and makes interest-oriented reading possible.
Making a reading plan requires cooperation between parents and children
As the mother of two elementary school students, Zhang Shuyun is very distressed about the child's reading: the child only reads the storyline when reading a book, and does not seek further explanation.
Can't feel the writing background, can't circle and draw good words and sentences, can't hold a pen, can't excerpt, and regard excerpts as a homework burden.
"As parents, we can see that our children have problems in language learning, but we don't know how to help them, and we don't know how to make them change."
In this regard, Doudou believes that the difficulties of primary school students in reading generally lie in the "reading" itself: illiterate, incomprehensible, lack of extension of background, etc.
"Children not only need to read on their own, but also need someone to communicate with, such as who to turn to when they can't read, and whom to communicate with when they have reading experience. There are ways to communicate and express, which can increase children's sense of gain in reading."
In the process of reading for primary and secondary school students, it is particularly important to carry out targeted family reading guidance.
"To make a reading plan requires the cooperation of parents and children, especially the initiative of the child. We should focus on developing the habit of reading every day and reading together with parents and children, and reading at a fixed time and place. Even if you only read for 10 minutes a day, You should also insist on reading, and don't 'expose ten colds at once'." Wang Fang emphasized that children should be involved in the process of making plans and book selection, listening to children's opinions, and jointly formulating monthly reading plans to help children develop Good independent reading habits.
In addition to planning the reading list, you can also plan to go to the library several times each semester, write several book reports, organize several family reading meetings, etc., you can discuss the content of the book with your children, so that children can have their own ideas and ideas when reading. Insights, develop critical thinking.
"Reading needs to fully consider the child's own situation and choose books that are suitable for the child. Generally speaking, primary and secondary school students should choose books that are positively and correctly oriented, conform to the cognitive level of their age group, and are interesting to them. Try to choose books that are highly readable. high-quality books, such as books with excellent content, clever arrangement, beautiful language, exquisite illustrations, and strong artistry. The genre should cover fictional and non-fictional works, and cover a wide range of literature and science.” Wang Fang said.
Gradually improve reading literacy and ability
Wang Xiulin's child is in the sixth grade. She hopes that her child will read more and cultivate their language literacy. The books she most often let her child read are basically the extracurricular books recommended by the teacher.
"But the biggest problem with children is that they don't want to read. Unless their parents force them, there is almost no independent reading outside of class, and most of the time is spent on Douyin and playing games." Wang Xiulin said with a sigh.
Lu Yumin, the parent of a third-grade student, also encountered the same problem. She bluntly said: "The child's reading initiative is poor." Lu Yumin also found that the child's reading effect is not obvious. You may only know what the story says, but you are not familiar with the specific content, and you lack the accumulation of good words and sentences.”
How to cultivate children's interest in reading, improve the reading literacy of primary and secondary school students, so that children love to read and can read?
This is a headache for many parents.
Wang Fang believes that reading is not an innate ability, and there is no clear time to start.
From reading cards to know people, things, and things, to being hooked on listening to stories, to independent reading, we provide children with reading preparations according to their own growth stages, meet their reading needs, and gradually guide children to master reading skills.
"There are many kinds of skills, but the premise of developing skills is to read a lot." As far as English reading is concerned, to improve English reading literacy and reading ability, Wang Fang believes that a scientific graded reading system can be selected and determined through scientific evaluation. Students' reading level, help students find books suitable for their reading level, and understand different aspects of knowledge from the simple to the deep, so as to build a personalized knowledge system.
You can also use the "horizontal reading method" to find books with rich genres around the same difficulty, read from different angles, lay a solid foundation and then advance.
Ni Minjing suggested building an evaluation system and a library of reading materials for Chinese graded reading.
He believes that after decades of accumulation in English reading, a very complete ladder-type reading evaluation system has been formed, and there is also a complete reading corpus, which has a strong supporting role in building students' reading interest and reading ability step by step.
It is necessary to study reading theory, form a local theoretical system of Chinese reading, and carry out diversified reading practices.
(Our reporter Yang Sa, our correspondent Han Ruolai)