Folk crafts suitable for young children to appreciate: shadow puppetry.

Shadow puppetry, also known as shadow play and lantern shadow play, is one of the oldest folk art forms of the Chinese nation. It is the essence of China's traditional culture and carries the rich cultural connotation of China for thousands of years. The stories have rich themes, diverse visual expressions, interesting language, and entertainment elements that firmly capture the hearts of young children.

Shadow puppet performances can enrich children's vocabulary, provide children with language information, and improve children's language expression abilities. Give children a platform to talk, so that children's language abilities can be developed and used, and promote the development of children's language abilities.

Strategies for shadow puppetry to promote the development of children's language expression ability

(1) Create a language area activity environment with a shadow puppetry atmosphere

A good language learning environment can better It can effectively stimulate children's interest in language learning and integrate language learning activities into a relaxed state of mind, so that language activities can be carried out more smoothly. Therefore, when kindergartens use shadow play to carry out language activities, preschool teachers need to create an interesting teaching environment for children from both the venue and the spiritual level.

To carry out language area activities in kindergartens, it is not only necessary to keep the learning area tidy and clean, but also to combine the needs of shadow puppets and arrange some puppets and music that children prefer in the performance area to facilitate the development of language activities. Create a more rustic scene and space to promote the orderly development of activities.

For example, if a kindergarten carries out language area activities through shadow play, teachers can arrange some shadow puppets in the classroom in advance and let the children operate the shadow puppets to play games, creating a fairy tale-like shadow play environment for the children so that the children can integrate as soon as possible. Fairy tales are recreated in the shadow puppet show. Through shadow puppetry, children can not only achieve a deeper understanding of the stories in the book, but also exercise their language skills through shadow puppetry, and promote the improvement of children's language ability in the children's full enthusiasm and high-spirited learning atmosphere.

(2) Reasonable selection of shadow puppet games in language activities

Children of different ages have different psychological characteristics and language development levels. Teachers should combine the age groups of children According to the development characteristics, choose appropriate shadow puppet language activities and games to effectively improve the effectiveness of the activity and promote the improvement of children's language ability. For example, children in middle classes are unfamiliar with many things because they are new to learning. They have not received formal language education and lack a foundation in language education. At this time, teachers should pay attention to cultivating children's basic language expression skills through shadow puppetry.

Because middle class children have less exposure to things, teachers can choose life-like situations to create shadow puppet shows, such as the pony running game, which means children can use shadow puppets to play games, and some students use pony shadow puppets. , some people use the shadow puppet of the horse driver.

In the game, the teacher asks the children, "Children, how do horse drivers drive horses?" At this time, the children will review their impressions of people riding horses and use their own impressions to answer the teacher's question. Questions, in the step-by-step process of asking and answering, gradually exercise children's language skills.

Through this kind of shadow play-related games, young children can also pay attention to record some experiences in life, actively express their thoughts through language, and improve their language expression ability in the process of active learning and exploration.

(3) Respect the dominant position of children in shadow puppet language activities

In language education in the new era, teachers put children at the center of the entire language teaching activities and respect the subject status of children position, and take necessary measures to allow children to give full play to their dominant position and actively participate in language learning activities. Based on this, teachers can reasonably choose some simple shadow puppet games in shadow puppet language teaching activities to stimulate children's interest in participating and enable them to actively engage in language learning.

For example, during the development of shadow puppet language activities, a game of watching movements and saying words can be introduced. The teacher first makes movements through shadow puppets, and allows children to speak the corresponding words through the movements displayed by shadow puppets.

After the children understand the rules of the game, guide the children to give full play to their imagination, connect the words by themselves and make corresponding actions through shadow puppets, and let other children say the corresponding words. Such games can not only train children's language expression ability, but also cultivate children's innovation power and expressiveness.

When carrying out language activities, teachers should pay attention to observing children's performance and behavior, dynamically understand children's ideas and interests, reasonably adjust teaching objectives and the use of shadow puppets based on actual conditions, and gradually optimize language activities and improve activities. Effectively promote the effective development of children's language ability.