First grade, learn Chinese easily

I heard a joke: \”I killed people in my previous life, but I teach Chinese in this life.\” It expressed the Chinese teacher\’s helplessness. There seems to be a consensus that Chinese is difficult to teach and learn. Judging from the actual learning results, Chinese subjects take the longest time to learn and the slowest results. There are many people who have graduated from undergraduate degree and still cannot write a short essay fluently. To improve the effect of Chinese learning, you must improve your Chinese learning ability. Reading ability, thinking ability, inquiry ability and expression ability are the four components of Chinese learning ability. To improve Chinese language learning ability, the first thing to improve is reading ability. 1. Listen and read a lot and think about how children learn to speak: adults input common words and sentences at high frequency in various situations, and children master the rules of language after more than a year of silence. Slowly, the child begins to output. But he does not simply repeat, but creatively owns his own language paradigm. Chinese language learning should also follow this most natural and most consistent method for children’s learning: a lot of listening and reading, mainly parent-child reading. Content includes: reading pictures, reading picture books, listening and reading, etc. The input of a large number of excellent listening resources not only enriches the reading content, but most importantly, cultivates children\’s interest in reading before they can read. Many famous writers started their interest in reading by listening to stories. Mr. Lu Xun recalled his experience of listening to Ah Chang telling stories in articles such as \”A Chang and the Classic of Mountains and Seas\” and \”From Baicao Garden to Sanwei Bookstore\”. The input of a large number of excellent listening resources can also greatly improve children\’s vocabulary and understanding. Families that are good at parent-child reading can, in addition to daily vocabulary input, absorb standardized and beautiful vocabulary and sentences from a large number of excellent works, and after many repetitions, they can internalize them into their own language. The input of a large number of excellent listening resources can also improve parent-child relationships and enhance learning effects. As the saying goes, “Be close to your teacher and believe in his teachings,” the same applies to family education. After dinner, a beautiful story lets the imagination fly, which is as attractive to children as toys and TV. A good parent-child relationship is far better than words of advice. 2. Reading methods Before starting to read, many people will have questions: How to read? The most effective way is: read. Even if you simply read it according to the original text, your children will naturally like it. The younger the age, the more true it is. The voice of parents has a natural attraction to children. Depending on the age of the child, start with nursery rhymes and children\’s songs. Those with a brisk rhythm and melody are the most easily accepted by children. Just like teaching children to speak, we can improve children\’s understanding in situations. For example, for verbs, we can match some actions; if it is the name of an object, we can point to the object and say it. In younger children, try to use print rather than multimedia. Multimedia contains a large number of sounds and images, and the amount of information is too large, which damages children\’s attention and reduces children\’s experience of reading content. For example, use multimedia and play a video for children under 3 years old. In the child\’s \”video\” learning mode, we cannot tell whether he is attracted by the images or whether he remembers the reading content. In addition, with the extensive use of multimedia, children input too much information in a short period of time: images, text, and understanding, which can easily lead to impaired concentration. \”Read well, don\’t ask for a deep understanding\” is a principle that is very suitable for children\’s reading. This means, when children read in early childhood, the cultivation of reading interest is greater than content understanding. Remember not to turn children\’s reading into a knowledge quiz game. For example, embedding too many questions in parent-child reading will destroy the child\’s overall reading experience and reduce interest in reading. A better way is to communicate and discuss based on the children\’s interests, such as bringing the children into the role of the story and discussing how to solve the problem if the children encounter similar situations. This kind of open-ended questions can expand children\’s thinking and exercise their expression skills. 3. Recommended books Recommending reading books is a difficult thing. Every year there is a recommended book list on the Internet, which can be used as a reference. There are also expert recommendations, must-read books for primary schools, must-read books for middle schools, etc. This can be used as a guide, but if you follow it exactly, you may be disappointed. The best reading content is suitable for children’s age characteristics, cognitive level, and interests. Therefore, fully understanding the child is a \”must answer\” question left to parents. \”Those who know well are not as good as those who are good at it, and those who are good at it are not as good as those who are happy.\” Starting with children\’s interests and hobbies is the easiest way to eliminate reading difficulties. For example, if a child is interested in plants, then provide the child with a large number of plant-related books, starting from the shallower to the more advanced, from picture books, picture books, and bridge books to literary works and professional books. What should be particularly pointed out is the introduction to classic reading. For example, the original works of the four major classics that we all know are not suitable for children to read. Like \”Journey to the West\”, some scenes are very cruel and bloody, and it requires a certain degree of discrimination before reading; as for \”Young people don\’t read Water Margin, old people don\’t read Three Kingdoms\” is also reasonable. Classics are of course worth reading over and over again. What I’m saying here is that the selection must be in line with the child’s reading interests, age characteristics, and cognitive level. For younger children, picture books are the first choice. The works of international awards can be entered with closed eyes, such as the Caldecott Medal, the International Hans Christian Andersen Award, etc. The best way is to take your children to visit bookstores and libraries more often. In that strong reading atmosphere, children can easily be infected and calm down to read. You can ask your children to go to the library to choose the books they like to read. When the children can buy books by themselves, they can also buy books independently. This is also a way to enrich the content of children\’s reading. \”No ship can be like a book, and no galloping horse can take people far away like the beating lines of poetry.\” The Chinese language learning ability that can be cultivated at home starts with reading.