How to motivate children to keep reading?

Another year\’s \”World Book Day\” is coming soon, and \”reading\” is a particularly hot topic these days. It is booming everywhere. It seems that if we don\’t carry out activities, it doesn\’t count as reading. In fact, my simplest experience in promoting children\’s reading is to bring the book to the children, and then give them enough time so that they can sit down, open the book, and read without any interference or pressure. , is already the most ideal state. But reality is often not as beautiful as imagined. If there are books, will children definitely know how to read them? If you read it today, will you read it again tomorrow? What should I do if there is a time conflict between reading and teaching? If you take your children to read but their grades show no improvement, can you still persevere? How to motivate children to keep reading? How to encourage yourself and strengthen your belief in children\’s reading? …There seems to be no standard answer to many questions. But if you don’t do it, there will definitely be no answer. As a Chinese teacher, I have to work with dozens of children day and night in a small classroom for six years. Every day I have to work very hard to give lectures, correct homework, make corrections repeatedly, and educate children without criticizing them. These things are extremely energy-consuming. Can there be some change in the classroom, some change in this day-to-day, difficult work? Reading, can do it. First of all, it is necessary to create a \”reading place\” so that the classroom has a \”reading atmosphere\”. Aiden Chambers said: Reading requires a place. Just like when we walk into the library, we will naturally slow down our steps and lower our voices. There seems to be a reading aura there. In fact, it is what is often called a reading atmosphere. In such an atmosphere, everyone who is in it It\’s natural to get infected. The same goes for a classroom. If the classroom is filled with a reading atmosphere, every child who walks into the classroom will naturally slow down and lower his voice. However, children seem to be born to run and yell. Is it possible to create such a classroom for primary school students, especially those in lower grades? Through practice, it is proved that no matter how noisy or unruly a child is, when he walks into a classroom with a strong reading aura every day, he will be changed. First, we must make the class library corner a \”treasure house of books.\” Starting from the first semester of the first grade, a variety of books have been purchased for the children and a \”book corner\” has been built. Choosing a book is not an easy task. Although various book lists are flying everywhere, it would be really embarrassing if a child asked: \”Teacher, have you read this book? What is it about?\” Fortunately, in the past few years, as my two children have grown up, I have read hundreds of various picture books and children\’s books, so I have the confidence to choose books for my children and talk about books with them. Our class’s book corner book list: First grade book corner book list, second grade book corner book list, third grade book corner book list. When these books were put into the cabinet at the back of the classroom, the children’s eyes suddenly lit up. Good books are innately important to them. Irresistible attraction. With a \”library corner\”, it also needs to be managed well. Initially, every Friday was set as a book borrowing day, allowing children to borrow books home for reading. The latest and most complete 2023 [Kindergarten, Junior High and High School] premium VIP course catalogs from famous teachers in various disciplines on the entire network, click to view now! When borrowing books for the first time, the children were excited and confused. They randomly picked out a bookI read the book in two minutes after I got to my seat, and then went to change the book. Slowly demonstrate how to choose the book you want to read, how to read from the cover and title page first, how to observe the picture, what to do when encountering unknown words… Gradually, the children read quietly for longer and longer, My interest in books has also become stronger. What I like most is to communicate with the teacher about the contents of the book. In the second semester of first grade, children begin to manage their own library corners. Only by personally participating in organizing and placing books can they have a real connection with books. Considering that the children are small, the book corner adopts \”standardized management\”, which is similar to the management method of a library, borrowing and returning books on a regular basis. In the second grade, I wanted to make library management more flexible and free, so I tried some self-service management. First of all, arrange two students to serve as \”librarians\” every day and clarify the work they have to do – take out some books from the library cabinet and place them on the bookshelf in the morning for students to read; books; put books in the library cabinet after school in the evening; be responsible for registering the borrowed and returned books of students; classify and organize the books in the library corner;…to list it all, the requirements for \”little administrators\” are still very high. Especially some details, such as placing books with their spines facing outwards, placing books according to size will be more orderly, students taking books and returning them frequently, two students can divide work and cooperate, etc. Teach the children step by step at the beginning. They have strong learning ability. After a while, they don’t have to worry about it anymore. After a few weeks of experimentation, it was found that a few children would forget their responsibilities and always needed to be reminded before they remembered that they had to manage the library corner today. In order to give the children who hold this position a greater sense of responsibility and honor, several more name badges were made for the \”little administrators\” to wear every day. The \”little administrators\” came in turns from the whole class, and until the third grade, they were still particularly active in taking on the task of \”managing the library corner\”. Every day, children can be seen busy in the library area. Their hands-on ability has been exercised, and their awareness of cooperation and book cherishing has gradually increased. They have also learned how to classify and organize books. The teacher is happy to be a \”hands-off shopkeeper\”. At the same time, the borrowing process is simplified. Many children\’s reading volume has greatly increased, and their reading speed has also improved a lot. Borrowing books every week can no longer meet their reading needs, and centralized borrowing is too troublesome. Prepare a \”Book Borrowing Registration Book\” so that students can borrow and register by themselves. If the book title is too long, you can directly write the number. The little administrator is involved in managing the borrowing registration of the students. Soon, the children will be able to register consciously and can do so at any time. Later, the borrowing register was optimized. According to the order of student number, each person has one piece of paper, which makes registration more convenient and faster. Children can turn to their own piece of paper at once, without having to look for it for a long time. I am also worried that books will be lost. Some \”little confused\” people borrow them and don\’t remember to return them, or they can\’t find them at home. How can we supervise them when they borrow books by themselves? As teacher Wei Zhiyuan wrote in \”Thirty Lectures on Children\’s Reading and Writing\”: Attrition is bound to exist, but strict management and borrowing systems will greatly increase borrowing costs. The lesser of two evils,It is better to have a certain amount of loss than to increase borrowing costs. It is also important to establish borrowing rules that we all abide by. Having rules to follow is a necessary starting point for management. Many times, as long as the rules are clearly told to children, they will know how to follow them. Our borrowing rules are: when taking books from the library shelf, you can only take out one book at a time and return it as soon as you read it. Only borrow one book at a time and return it after reading it. Do not borrow multiple books at once and take them home. Whether you are reading at school or at home, you must take good care of books and do not paint or damage them at will. You can exchange books with your classmates, or you can bring your own books to the classroom to read. After self-service management, children borrow more frequently and books circulate faster. In addition to the books purchased by the class, there are also various books collected from the school library and brought from home. Currently, the class has a collection of more than 400 books, which can meet the reading needs of the class. The higher the utilization rate of the book corner, the more interested the children will be in reading, and the better the cooperation and support of parents will be. When I took my children to read, day after day, year after year, slowly, some magical changes took place in this small classroom. There are many common topics between children and teachers, and that is the books we have read. The characters, plots, emotions and fantasies in the book are all played out in the classroom every day. Reading is enough to bring children an extremely fruitful life.