Use these 3 mind maps to unlock the in-depth reading ability of children aged 2-6

Deep reading, that is, \”reading a book thinly\” is an ability that has been valued very much since the beginning of primary school classes in the United States. In-depth reading can help children systematically understand the characters, themes, scene structures and internal logic of a book. This ability is very helpful for future mathematics and writing. Many mothers who practice parent-child reading have found that their babies have gone through the stages of chewing books, flipping pages randomly, and crawling away after reading two pages. Their understanding ability is getting stronger and stronger, and they can also patiently listen to a picture book from beginning to end. But many of the picture books at home only have a few sentences per page, and it only takes 5-10 minutes to read them slowly. Is there any way to make better use of picture books at home to cultivate baby\’s cognitive and thinking abilities? Today I would like to combine these two topics and share with you how to use mind mapping to turn simple picture book reading into a tool for babies\’ in-depth reading enlightenment. Required materials: 1. 2-3 picture books that the baby is interested in, can understand, and is already familiar with the content (story or cognitive picture books with simple plots are recommended) 2. A large piece of white paper and colored pens 3. Choice: Print Clip art related to picture books When I first learned mind mapping, I mostly used large white paper. Later, I prepared a black and white board for Su Bao, which she could use to draw and also use as a tool when learning mind mapping. Very convenient: The most important point in preparation is to familiarize yourself with the content of the picture book in advance and make a draft of the mind map, so that when you draw the map with your baby, you will have an idea and be more organized. Use circle diagrams or bubble diagrams to understand the core concepts in picture books. Circle diagrams are also called concept maps. They are mainly used to learn a certain core concept, practice classification and association, and can guide children to learn a definition or a core concept. . For example, if you and your baby read a picture book about farm animals together, you can use circle diagrams to learn the concept of farm animals: Or, if you read a cognitive picture book about penguins together, you can use circle diagrams to show the characteristics of penguins. Features: Bubble charts use adjectives to focus on describing the attributes of a thing. The key point is \”description\”. For example, in the classic fairy tale \”Goldilocks\”, the protagonist in it has the characteristics of small, hungry, and beautiful: If you read a picture book about pumpkins, you can use bubble diagrams to learn the attributes of pumpkins: About circle diagrams The difference between bubble charts and bubble charts, I think you don’t need to worry too much about this in the enlightenment stage. In the eyes of children, their structures are actually very similar. Function is more important than form, just use it as you like. As a starting point, I used circle diagrams combined with the Eric Carle picture book series that Su Bao is already familiar with to teach her how to classify colors. First, I prepared some character magnets from Eric Carle\’s picture books. You can also use printed clipart instead: draw circles of different colors on the whiteboard, and then work with Su Bao to select animals of various colors according to color. Find the different types and put them in the corresponding circles: Use flow charts to understand picture booksThe concept of story structure and internal logic flow chart is very simple. This is the basic framework: the flow chart is mainly used to show the sequence of one thing, but it is also one of the most versatile mind maps. It can be used not only for In-depth reading enlightenment will also be used by children in natural science classes in the future, such as using a flow chart to express the process of sedimentary rock formation: or learning the process of an apple tree growing from a seed to a tree and then bearing fruit: in reading, the process Pictures can be used to train babies to understand the story structure of picture books and understand the sequence of time. I chose a picture book that Su Bao likes very much and has a very clear story structure: The Gruffalo, and combined it with the flow chart for in-depth reading enlightenment: The Gruffalo is a picture book about a little mouse who wants to go to the other side of the forest. Looking for food, I met a fox, a snake and an owl on the way. All three animals wanted to eat the mouse, but they were scared away by the monster they made up called \”The Gruffalo\”. Unexpectedly, the mouse really met the \”Grunty\” in the end, and had to scare away the mouse again with courage and wisdom. The Gruffalo successfully reached the other side of the forest. When preparing for the work, I prepared cutouts of different scenes, and then drew a sketch like this: When reading this picture book with Su Bao, after telling a scene, I asked Su Bao to find the corresponding cutouts. Come out and paste them on the whiteboard in order. I am responsible for adding the arrows, and the flow chart is completed: It can also be like this: The flow chart can also be used to guide the baby to understand the internal logic of the story in the picture book, such as \”The Very Hungry Caterpillar (The Very Hungry Caterpillar)\” Everyone is already familiar with the book \”Very Hungry Caterpillar\”. It tells the story of a small caterpillar that ate a lot of food and turned into a fat caterpillar. It spun a cocoon and finally turned into a beautiful butterfly. This is a sketch of the flow chart of The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Su Bao is already familiar with this story. While we were telling the story, Su Bao posted the pictures on the whiteboard by himself, and finally added the arrows together. When teaching your baby to use flow charts to practice in-depth reading, you can start to introduce vocabulary that expresses the logic of time sequence, and encourage your baby to use connective words such as \”first\”, \”then\” and \”last\”. For older children (after 3 or 4 years old), after completing this step, you can also encourage them to retell the story based on the flow chart they have posted. Use double bubble charts to compare two picture books horizontally. After mastering the above two mind maps, you can try to take your baby to the next stage of in-depth reading and introduce double bubble charts. The function of the double bubble chart is to compare two related and different things. It can very well guide children to understand the concepts of comparison and classification. Learning to compare and summarize the key points in different picture books will be very helpful for your ability to write and look up information after entering school. The double bubble chart looks like this: the left and right sides are two things, and the purple bubble in the middle represents the common ground. Children can use it to learn the similarities and differences between the concept of insects and spiders: I chose two related picture books, namely \”The Gruffalo\” mentioned earlier and its sister book \”The Gruffalo& #8217;s Child): This picture book \”The Gruffalo Baby\” tells the story of the Gruffalo\’s daughter who wants to explore the forest to find the \”bad mouse\” her father told her about. She also encounters a fox, a snake and a snake respectively. Owl, these characters all overlap with another Gruffalo picture book. The difference is that the Gruffalo story takes place in summer or autumn, and takes place during the day, while the scene in the book Cowboy is winter, and the story takes place during the day. night. So there was a double bubble diagram like this (the picture below is the draft I drew): Using stickers with Su Bao, it looked like this. There was a sticker missing in the lower right corner, so I directly used the cover of this book to replace it. : Any picture books in the same series that have overlapping characters or scenes (such as Little Critter series, Llama Llama series, Pink Pig series, etc.) can use double bubble charts to practice in-depth reading. . In-depth reading, logic training, critical thinking, these sounding esoteric words may not seem to have anything to do with a three-year-old baby, but in fact, as long as we use the right methods and spend some time, we can do thinking training for our babies at home. Enlightenment. The best enlightenment is in the family. Although children may not be able to fully grasp it at the beginning, over time and under subtle influence, children\’s ability to associate, summarize, and analyze will gradually surpass that of their peers.