Childhood reading is the wings for children to fly to their dreams.

Childhood reading will accompany the child for a lifetime and affect the child for a lifetime.

Children's literature writer Li Xiuqing talks about how to cultivate children's interest in reading

As a writer of children's literature, I often receive letters from some parents and friends, some asking how to cultivate their children's interest in reading, some asking how to improve their children's writing ability, and some asking me to help write a list of books whenever I read such letters. The heart will become very heavy. Because, instead of trying to communicate these topics with me for the purpose of reading, many parents want to get an answer from me on how to improve their children's writing ability and how to get high marks.

Some parents ask how to cultivate their children's interest in reading, while worrying that too many extra-curricular books will affect their learning. This makes me laugh and cry. How can reading affect learning? Especially in primary school, a lot of reading will not only improve children's writing ability and language expression ability, but also help to improve their imagination and memory, but also stimulate and mobilize the activities of brain nerves through reading. contribute to the child's intellectual development and the development of many non-intellectual factors. Through a large number of investigations, experts have proved that children who have a large amount of reading in primary school will generally achieve better academic performance than those who do well in primary school but do not read a lot when they enter middle school. Not only do they have a strong learning stamina, they will not even have the so-called rebellious period, but they will also be more confident, more calm, more optimistic and stronger than children who read less in the face of learning pressure and difficulties.

Some parents think that their children's writing ability will be improved immediately after reading a few books, but they do not realize that it is a slow process from reading to writing. No one can become a fat man in one mouthful, not to mention that reading nourishes the soul, and what is strong is the spirit, which is a silent process of moisturizing and reaching by imperceptibly and slowly. It is impossible for a child to be intelligent because he has read a few books, but if a child develops good reading habits in his childhood, he will become friends with books for a lifetime. His whole life will become full and optimistic because of the company of books.

I. the significance of children's reading

Reading is to see the world and read life, which is an effective way to observe the world indirectly and experience life. We know that reading has a variety of advantages, for example, reading can enrich children's minds, broaden their horizons, increase knowledge, improve language expression and writing ability, and so on.

A child who does not read will be a person who lacks spiritual strength, and even if he is talented, his mind will not be awakened. Because reading will make the child become a warm, interesting and thinking person. Mei Zihan said that a child who grows up reading is like a flower blooming while listening to music, like a tree growing up in the sun. We can imagine that such a child will be a person who is full of interest, loves life, is good at thinking and has a good heart, and will be an optimistic, wise and strong person. Because such a person is full of sunny positive energy, everyone will like him and are willing to be friends with him. However, some parents let their children read too much utilitarianism. When they go to the bookstore to buy books, they only choose some educational and tutoring books for their children, such as essays and highlights of Mathematical Olympiad questions, and let their children read only in order to acquire knowledge and improve their writing level. Get a high score in the exam, but ignore the real meaning of reading: to broaden your horizons and broaden your mind, so that you can have a direction in life and not be confused.

A person with a lot of reading will draw excellent qualities from excellent literary works, internalize them into his own strength, and then have enough positive energy to face the setbacks encountered in life. In their view, all the difficulties and setbacks in life, like thunder and rain, are perfectly normal, because no matter how bad the weather is, there will always be a sunny day after rain. A child who loves to read, his ability to resist setbacks, the ability to distinguish between right and wrong, the ability of self-management will be very strong, and his life will follow the right channel.

So let your children love reading. Reading can make the child's heart and eyes better, make the child's invisible wings stronger, fly higher, see farther, let the child have a clear goal, and fly all the way to the place where dreams blossom.

Second, let children read happily.

To make children happy in reading is the starting point to cultivate children's interest in reading.

Love to play is the nature of children, so only by making reading a fun and happy thing, children can not help but fall in love with reading and become inseparable friends with books. Some parents ask their children to write about their feelings after reading, thinking that only in this way can the goal of reading be achieved, but this will not only reduce the fun of reading, but also make reading a burden. May I ask, how can reading with a task be easy and happy? Therefore, let the child fall in love with reading, do not let the child take the task to read at the beginning, let alone let the child read as a task to complete.

Of course, not allowing children to read with tasks does not mean that children should only read without thinking, because it is not the only way to make children better understand the meaning of a book. There are also many ways that children can accept it. For example, parents can read with their children and then have a relaxed and happy discussion. This way of parent-child reading can not only stimulate children's enthusiasm for reading, but also improve the communication and feelings between parents and children.

Some parents would rather watch some soap operas than read a children's literature book. they think that children's literature is a pediatrics and is not worth reading. In fact, children's literature seems simple, but it is the purest and most loving literature. I became a writer of children's literature precisely because my daughter liked reading when she was a child, which gave me the opportunity to read a large number of famous works of Chinese and foreign children's literature. My life was illuminated by those great children's books. I found that there was such a text in the world: warm, beautiful, kind, full of love and warmth, weaving beautiful fairy tales with words, giving children the power to realize their dreams and enlighten their wisdom, let children know the beautiful words of innocence and kindness, and know how to respect and care for all living things in the world.

Because I have read a large number of excellent works of children's literature, when I really started writing, I took it for granted that I chose children's literature. Because today's children are under heavy burden of schoolwork and learning pressure, they are unwilling to accept works whose stories are slow and too heavy, so some children's literature writers, including me, are based on their understanding and love for their children. try to make every book easy and interesting. These books seem to tell simple and interesting stories, but each story will bring emotion and warmth to children and light up their childhood.

Parents may ask, does it make sense to let their children read happily? My answer is: of course it makes sense! The meaning is that in addition to making children fall in love with reading, isn't it meaningful to be happy in itself? What's more, in the seemingly relaxed and happy reading, there is always the power to warm and move the child's heart. As time goes by, children's reading capacity increases, and their writing ability and language expression ability will naturally be improved. More importantly, once children experience happiness through reading, reading will naturally become a source of happiness and knowledge for children.

Parents are the best role models for their children

Some parents do not read their own books, but ask their children to read. Do they not know that parents are the best role models for their children? If parents have time to sit in front of the TV, or play cards and chat, but let their children go to read, even if the children do not say, subconsciously there will be questions: since reading is good, why don't you read?