How to improve reading for children with low literacy

Let me start with the conclusion: coercion is not advisable. If you want children to fall in love with reading, you still need methods. No matter what you do, your child will do better when he feels good about himself. There is no good way for me, which is to do it myself and stand on a united front with my children rather than on opposite sides. PART1. Force may make reading more passive. In contrast, it is more important to understand the reasons why children do not like reading. I have done this forcing thing. In our family, my child can read and draw unlimitedly, but he doesn’t like to draw red. When I force him to draw red every day, he will be more resistant and even bargain. If you let him He traced two pages, but he traced one. You said he traced four lines, but he said he traced two lines. The speed was still very slow, and the more he pressed, the slower he was. He also scribbled on the notebook, and the result was a lose-lose situation. You didn’t mention tracing red. He pretended it was nothing. It\’s not a good idea to continue like this. I learned that he doesn\’t like to trace radicals. If he wants to trace Chinese characters, then just trace the Chinese characters directly. First, see if the order he writes is correct. If he\’s not right, I\’ll correct him. If he\’s right, let him continue. , I am busy with my business, and this matter can be carried out. We adults don\’t like to be forced, and neither does a child. He only wants to do what he wants. If you force or nag, it becomes a task, the teacher\’s task or the parent\’s task. If you don’t like reading, there may be the following reasons: 1. There is no reading environment for children. Reading first requires an environment dedicated to children. Adults can also be role models for children. A reading atmosphere can better motivate children. You can refer to my other article for this part. answer. 2. If you don’t have a reading habit and have little literacy, you will be afraid of difficulties, let alone not want to read. The relationship between low literacy and a dislike of reading is mutually reinforcing. Personally, I recommend guiding your children to recognize words while reading. There is no need to spend time learning to recognize words alone. The more children read, the more words they will recognize. This is what I do. 3. Not interested in the book we selected. You can ask your children what they like, what kind of books they want to read, what kind of books they want to buy, and search online using keywords, such as dinosaurs/Ultraman/vehicles/Princess Elsa picture books, etc. Start with things that interest children, and children are very receptive. Or ask your child what their classmates are reading, and ask them if they want to read it. You can also choose some books that are not too difficult and suitable for their age group. 4. It is related to the guidance method of parents. We can ask ourselves, how long do we spend reading with our children every day? Or it stipulates how many pages a child should read a day. Have you finished the homework assigned by the teacher? For lower grade students in primary school, reading seems to be the child\’s own business, but in fact it still requires the company/supervision of parents. If the child does not like reading, the parents should take them to read together. If it were me, I would start with the four factors mentioned above, then make a reasonable plan, read it with my children, and teach them slowly. If you don\’t worry about this yourself, no one will really worry about it for you. Even so, it won\’t go smoothly. PART2. How to stimulate children\’s inner drive/increase their sense of achievement so that children who have no interest in reading can also fall in love with reading.read? Children naturally love to play. If parents always stand from the perspective of bystanders and expect their children to realize themselves, it will probably be very difficult. Sometimes the children don’t know how to start, and even if they know some things, they are reluctant to do them. What I feel particularly deeply is that the task of catching children to learn is more of a test for parents. If parents are strong in execution, they will read every day. However, it is not difficult for everyone to find that although I have time to study with my child, he does not appreciate it. He reads an extra page of the book as if it is for me? Here, I especially want to share a sentence with you: No matter what you do, a child will do better when he feels good about himself. I understood this truth a few years ago, but recently, I felt it deeply. I haven’t played with the badminton/butt ball at home for about a year. I took it down with me a few days ago, but I found that not only can he play badminton, but he can also return two balls in a row, and he can also catch the butt ball. I live there, and every time I play, I don’t want to go back. When I come back, I can’t play much and I have to go back again. I was thinking, why is this, in addition to the freshness, I kept giving thumbs up and verbal praise (even if it was extremely crooked, I still said it was an improvement compared to the last ball) and moving at every turn during the game. Not being able to catch the ball gave him a sense of accomplishment. He felt better and better and was laughing all the time, so he still wanted to play. Recalling when I taught him how to play, I said, you should be like this, you should be like this. He was very frustrated and stopped playing for a while. So, back to the question, how do you make your children feel better when reading? I think it is parents’ feedback on their children’s behavior and their language. If reading brings pleasure to him, he will do it. Don’t always find fault. Let me finish by telling you something that I find critical. As my children grow older, I increasingly find myself becoming demanding and dissatisfied. For example, one time when I was doing laundry, I said, go read some English and don’t waste time. After finishing reading one book, he came to the room to get a new one. He read five books in one go at Pearson Preparatory Level, and was in high spirits throughout the process. I ran over and said, clicking it once is not enough, you have to click it a few times. As soon as I finished speaking, I felt like I had a bad mouth. It was obviously the child who took the initiative to order 5 books. Why did I ask him to order a book a few times more? Yes, it is necessary to consolidate it several times to deepen the impression. Yes, my clothes have not been washed, but the learning spirit of taking the initiative to click and read. Isn’t it valuable? Children\’s Literacy + Idiom Stories + Reading Chinese Enlightenment Course Complete Works Think about it, parents and children have been reading together for 4 years, and they have never deliberately asked him to remember anything. He also knows a lot of things.