1, picture book reading conforms to children's thinking characteristics.
In the history of human development, picture language is even earlier than written language, more intuitive than written symbols, and the expression system is more in line with the characteristics of children's imaginative thinking. Because in early childhood, children's thinking is a kind of concrete and concrete thinking, and picture books are mainly pictures, with few words but rich pictures, which convey stories. Reading picture books can make children who can't read "read" the meaning with rich pictures, which makes reading easier and conforms to the characteristics and habits of children's early reading. A good picture book, each image has rich connotations, and there is a unique narrative relationship between the pictures, which expresses the overall artistic conception of the picture book. Through intuitive picture book reading, children can absorb, stir and transform various viewpoints, which invisibly cultivates superb reading ability and urges children to take the initiative to transition from picture reading to pure text reading.
2. Reading picture books can stimulate children's interest in reading.
Interest is the best teacher. Cultivating children's interest in reading from an early age has an important impact on their life development. The role of picture book reading in language development has always been a hot topic at home and abroad, and it is also the greatest value of picture book reading. Reading picture books can not only increase children's vocabulary, but also enhance their oral expression ability, among which cultivating good reading interest is the most important. Therefore, it is very important to choose the first book in life. Picture books, a unique form of expression, capture the characteristics of children's psychological development. Humorous pictures satisfy children's strong curiosity and easily lead them into a happy journey of reading.
3. Reading picture books can activate children's imagination.
Children are born visionaries and like to imagine. In the process of children's growth, imagination cannot be absent, nor can it be absent. Compared with other forms of children's literature, picture books that combine images and colors leave a broad space for children's imagination, which is an indispensable book form for developing children's imagination. No one is born with a rich imagination. Imagination is acquired through direct and indirect experience. The more experience, the richer imagination, and picture books provide children with opportunities for rich experience. Picture book stories cross national boundaries and various cultural backgrounds. Through words and pictures, children can enter different worlds and expand their creativity infinitely. The picture book will also reserve a lot of imagination space for children, so that children can develop rich associations with stories and design the language and actions of the characters in the book according to the overall artistic conception of the picture book. Some details in the picture will also make children have rich associations and expand and extend the story. For example, the picture book "The Taste of the Moon" tells the story of a group of animals looking at the moon on a beautiful night and having a whim. What's the smell of the moon? Is it sweet or salty? I really want a drink! However, no matter how you stretch your neck, hands and legs, you can't reach the moon ... a short and thin picture book is like a wonderful unit drama. Any teacher who likes to get along with children and is willing to get along with children attentively can make use of the advantages of picture books, and let children integrate into the story situation of picture books with curiosity and excitement through meaningful questions and guidance under zero pressure.
Second, reading picture books helps to improve children's personality.
1, picture book reading can cultivate children's beauty.
Picture books are beautiful and meaningful, which can cultivate children's beauty. Good picture books, especially foreign picture books, are mostly written by famous painters. Whether it is the use of lines, the collocation of colors, the layout of space, the use of various media, the unity of painting skills and styles is very high. They create a story in various ways, so that children can enjoy literature and infect aesthetics in reading. A good picture book not only draws beautifully, but also makes readers visually happy with its composition and color. Moreover, each picture has rich connotations, and the pictures can present a unique narrative relationship. In the process of bringing children into beautiful stories, children's emotions are cultivated, and their artistic aesthetic ability is constantly developing, and the improvement of this ability can never be replaced by reading words alone. Picture book reading can talk to the owner, feel the exquisiteness of childhood, share and revel in the warmth and touch of crossing time and space, crossing culture and reaching the soul, so that children can fall in love with reading, enjoy reading and know how to read. For example, in the picture book Ant and Watermelon, children will definitely like the watermelon with the big red cover. Open the page, the sharp contrast between small ants and big watermelons makes the picture very eye-catching. The color of the whole book is this watermelon red. Ant cave has many details. The page of Ant Cave is enough to immerse children in discovering new things again and again. For another example, in the book "Rose Hen Going for a Walk", the texture of various things is expressed by line drawing, which is concise and clear, and can be regarded as a model for observing template painting; In The Little Conch and the Big Whale, the painter made the big blue-black tail of the big whale move with the little conch and naturally transferred it to the illustrations on other pages. So no matter what rich scenes they appear in, we can find them at a glance, so the whole picture book has a clear and unified main color, and through simple line changes, the body dynamics and facial expression changes of the little conch are vividly displayed; Some picture books are about artistic skills.
2. Reading picture books can sublimate children's spiritual realm.
A good picture book not only tells a story, but also helps to improve children's observation, enrich their imagination and sublimate their spiritual realm. For example, The Round Moon is a poetic picture book, which shows us a quiet and warm night. Teenagers by the window, lost dogs, small fish who can't wait to get out of the water ... Although they are silent, they all have their own good wishes in their hearts. Wherever we go, the moon always cares about us like a sister. With selfless love, she pointed out the way forward for us and sent blessings to the people we love. "Things change, the horizon is in * * * at this time", which was originally a sentence in China's ancient poems. What the author interprets in this book is so vivid and appropriate. Every page in the book conveys the theme of love. Love is mutual, and only after giving can you feel her existence. Reading with children, it is natural to think of parents' love for themselves and how to continue this love, let the fragrance of love fill children's hearts and wish the world a better place. While reading brings happiness to children, it also brings them immeasurable spiritual wealth and builds a free spiritual space and spiritual home for them. When children wander between the lines with the brilliance of human nature, natural harmony and childlike interest, they will broaden their horizons, enrich their hearts, sublimate their realm and improve their personality.
3. Reading picture books can promote children's socialization.
In the process of reading picture books, children will have empathy, which will change with the protagonist's mood, either happy or sad, thus enriching their emotional experience. Moreover, reading itself brings great happiness to children. Look at the excited expression of children immersed in the story and repeat the state of a story repeatedly, and you can know that they are enjoying the story. In addition, many profound truths can be easily conveyed to children through picture books, so that they can understand the truth, goodness and beauty in the process of reading picture books. At the same time, through the examples in the story, children can learn a series of qualities such as sharing and cooperation, so as to better communicate with their peers and better promote their own socialization. For example, the picture book "Ballet with Bigfoot" tells the story of ballerina Belinda's dream coming true. Belinda, who studied dance seriously, was not favored by the judges because of her big feet. The judges even sneered, which greatly hit her self-confidence and forced her to give up ballet and find another job. Although being a waiter in a restaurant has nothing to do with dancing, Belinda still wins the love of restaurant owners and guests with a serious attitude until one day the opportunity finally comes ... The children realize that as long as they keep working hard and don't give up their dreams, their dreams will come true one day. Happy birthday to the bear in the picture book. The moon likes the moon and wants to give it a birthday present. But the bear doesn't know when the moon's birthday is. I don't know what to send. So he came to the top of the mountain to talk to the moon and decided to give the moon a hat ... In childhood, children always thought that everything was alive and would naturally talk to them; At the same time, longing for friendship and learning to establish friendship are also the necessary process for children to grow up. Optimistic and positive bear makes friends sincerely and innocently, which makes everyone feel warm and understanding! Another example is a watermelon in the picture book Ant and Watermelon. In the eyes of ants, how huge and attractive it is! In order to take the delicious watermelon home, the ants set out collectively ... first fill the house, then eat a hearty meal, and finally play with the slide on the watermelon. Ant is a cute little animal and a symbol of children in a weak position in life. Ants and children always have some similarities. There is a strong contrast between a group of small ants and a big watermelon. The story is simple and interesting, and it is also the author's careful conception. Children will be immersed in this simple happiness, and at the same time they will be infected by the hardworking, cheerful, intelligent and cooperative spirit of ants.
With the increasing diversification of society, the theme of picture books has also begun to change. Some special topics that were neglected or avoided in the past, such as death, anger, jealousy, physical and mental disorders, are gradually presented to children. However, these problems are all necessary stages in the process of children's growth, and whether they can be successfully overcome will also affect the evaluation of the same or similar things in the future. The main purpose of picture books is to provide children with all kinds of real or closest real life experiences through reading, so that children can not only identify with the people who have the same experience in the books, but also get an opportunity to vent their inner feelings, and also help children learn to look at things from different angles and practice thinking for others from different positions. Picture books are like good friends who accompany children from time to time. In front of them, children will naturally disarm themselves and show their true side. For adults who try to enter their children's inner world, picture books are like a key to open the door. By reading picture books, children can not only interact with the virtual world in the book through their own life experiences, but also indirectly help children experience all kinds of real life more truly and thoroughly. Even help children solve some psychological problems. For example, fear, fear of life, bed wetting, tension with peers and so on. In the picture book "Grandpa Becomes a Ghost", a few words and a few pictures can help children calmly face the problem of life and death, so that adults dare not touch it easily, and solve it with a pair of childish eyes, so that children can touch it calmly; The picture book "Crayon Black" adopts personification, and through the characteristics of crayon color, it shows that it is useless without color, and different colors can perform well in different places. At the same time, it contains reasons that everyone has, which can help children develop self-confidence. The picture book "Naughty Boy and Scary Heart" makes children's psychology change from cowardice to bravery and get out of the shadow of fear through the process from fear to bravery. The picture book "Weeding the Bed" makes the children feel at ease through the plot that kindergarten animals wet the bed together and dry the sheets together-it turns out that every child will wet the bed, and the baby who wets the bed does not have to feel inferior! Picture books also let children learn to feel deep love and know how to be grateful. ...
In short, picture book reading plays an important role in children's knowledge accumulation, thinking activation, emotional enrichment and personality improvement. It can not only make children love reading and learn to read, but also feel the happiness of learning, creating and growing from reading, and develop healthily in picture book reading. As we undertake the responsibility of education, facing the painstaking efforts of the masters, we must establish a correct and developing view of children, and organically combine and infiltrate these excellent children's books in the broadest dimension and deepest understanding with rich educational art, educational wisdom and skillful interactive strategies and skills. So as to interpret the educational value of picture books as much as possible, and live up to the historical mission of these excellent picture books and the heavy social responsibility of teaching and educating people and preaching.