Primary school teacher: If you don’t pay attention to the “third grade phenomenon”, your children’s grades will decline too fast and it will be difficult to catch up.

Have you heard of the “third grade phenomenon”? Many children who performed well in the first and second grades will struggle to learn and their grades will decline significantly in the third grade. The reason is mainly because starting from the third grade, the difficulty of the courses will be greatly improved. It is no longer like the first and second grade, where you can easily cope with advanced learning and rote memorization. If a child does not develop good study habits and scientific learning methods in the first or second grade, he must change quickly when he reaches the third grade. Otherwise, the child will have more difficulty learning and may even fall into the ranks of poor students. As parents, how should we help our children with their homework and studies when they reach third grade? Teacher Yu Min gave a lot of pertinent suggestions in the book \”Accompanying Children through Six Years of Primary School\”. Xiaoxian\’s mother has compiled the three most critical points for everyone. As long as these three points can be done well, the child will be able to pass the third grade and make progress steadily. Be sure to watch it carefully until the end. 01 Correct the habit of procrastinating homework. Starting from the third grade, with the substantial increase in homework volume, the problem of procrastination in homework among many children has gradually been exposed. We parents must pay attention to this. If we don\’t help our children correct it as soon as possible, the situation of staying up late to do homework will only become more and more serious in the future. How to correct it specifically? It is recommended that parents prepare a timer for their children. After school every day, they first refer to the homework book and plan the completion time of each assignment with their children. For example, Chinese has two parts: copying and homework. Copying takes 20 minutes, writing from 5:00 to 5:20; homework takes 30 minutes, writing from 5:25 to 5:55. Use the same method to indicate estimated completion times for all tasks. Then give the child 5 minutes to clear the desktop, drink water, and go to the toilet. As soon as 5 o\’clock arrives, set a 20-minute countdown and start copying work immediately. I recommend you try this timer. Whether my children are doing homework or watching TV, or I am reading books or writing manuscripts, I use them. Just turn the number upwards to start timing, which won’t distract your child. It’s very easy to use! After the timer goes off, close the workbook, put a check mark next to the estimated time if it is completed, and put a cross next to it if it is not completed. Then rest for 5 minutes and continue with the next assignment. It should be noted that after the timer expires, the task must be stopped even if it is not completed, and the next task cannot be delayed. And during the timer, the child cannot leave the position, just like during the exam. If you want to drink water or go to the toilet, you can only use the 5-minute break between the two tasks. Throughout the process, parents are only responsible for reminding and supervising. They are not allowed to criticize, interrupt, or answer questions. After the whole process is over, the children can ask questions that they cannot do, or reschedule the time to complete the unfinished homework. This will not only give the child a sense of urgency, but also help him learn to plan and manage time, and slowly get rid of the bad habit of procrastinating on homework. 02 Pay attention to preview before class. Preview is a very important part of learning. It can not only improve the efficiency of listening to the class the next day, prevent children from being distracted in class, but also enable children to learn to learn independently. If your child is in third grade and has not developed the habit of previewing before class, or does not know how to preview, he will already be far behind the top students. We must tell our children that previewing requires methods., instead of reading the textbook quickly, even if you have previewed it. The purpose of previewing should be to find out the key points and difficulties of the course as the focus of the next day\’s lecture. Otherwise, it will be difficult for children to stay focused for 45 minutes. How to preview? Let’s look at it by subject. Chinese: 1. Read the full text carefully, mark the natural paragraphs, and master the basic content such as words and phrases. 2. Understand the main idea and writing background of the article by consulting reference books and reference books. 3. Read the after-class questions again, draw a circle if you don’t know how to do it, and focus on listening to the lecture and taking notes during class the next day. Mathematics: 1. Read the textbook through and sort out the formulas and theorems. 2. Focus on the examples and try to do the after-class questions. If you don’t understand, draw a circle. Listen carefully in class the next day. If you don’t understand, be sure to ask the teacher after class. English: 1. Basic parts such as words and phrases must be recited and memorized in advance. 2. Circle the parts of the text that you don’t understand and listen carefully in class. 03 Learn to grasp the key points and difficulties. For hard-working children, the higher the grade, the harder it is to learn and the less satisfactory their grades are. The reason is that they don\’t know how to focus on the key points and difficulties when studying, and always want to improve their grades by increasing their study time and answering more questions. This may work in the lower grades, but if you continue to do this in the upper grades, you will only tire yourself out. We need to tell our children that in the same page of textbooks, some knowledge is key and difficult, accounting for a large proportion in the exam, while some knowledge will not be tested at all and is not worth spending too much time on. In addition, the difficult and error-prone points in the course are also very important. We need to prepare wrong question papers for each subject for our children, so that they can develop the habit of sorting out wrong questions on a regular basis. Don\’t blindly answer questions before the exam. Focus on reviewing the wrong question papers in each subject. This is the most labor-saving and efficient review method and can help him easily achieve good results. The above three points are the key points in tutoring third-grade children in their studies and homework. If you can do them well, the children\’s grades will not be bad. In fact, not only the third grade is special, but every year of elementary school is both critical and different. On the one hand, this is because learning tasks are changing; on the other hand, children\’s physical and mental characteristics also vary greatly from year to year. If you want to help your child spend six years of primary school smoothly and make steady progress, you can\’t just rely on you to watch your child do homework every day. We must be more planned and more targeted in helping children. It would be great if there was an experienced teacher who could remind us from time to time and give us some practical suggestions and help. This has to mention Teacher Yu Min and her \”Accompanying Children through Six Years of Primary School\”. Teacher Yu has more than 20 years of rich teaching experience, knows children very well, and is also very good at helping children. She compiled this book based on the different characteristics of each stage in the six years of primary school. It is like a reading guide for parents of primary school students. What should I do if my child does not adapt to the first grade? What should I do if I am not focused on learning and have no motivation? How to improve my learning methods, how to deal with the turbulence of adolescence, how to build character, and how to manage myself? Teacher Yu has prepared practical and effective suggestions for dealing with any problems you and your children may encounter. I have been reading this book since Xiao Xiao was in first grade and he is now in fourth grade. Whenever we encounter learning problems and growth problems that trouble us, they can ultimately be attributed to the teacherThe solution was solved with the advice of . The child has also made significant progress from being ordinary at the beginning. Not only did I not fall behind in the third grade, but I accumulated a lot of experience and caught up, which made me very happy. I sincerely recommend this book to every parent of primary school students. I believe it will definitely help you, help your children, and protect you all the way.