Increased literacy problems as children miss out on home reading
Joseph Kelly
January 4, 2011 - 3:29PM
家长给幼儿读书的比例正在下降。最近的研究显示在美国和英国只有16%的家长给幼儿读书。家长给幼儿读书比例下降的原因是因为越来越多的家庭的生活方式繁忙，而孩子们日益转向其他形式的娱乐活动。无论是什么原因，家长给幼儿读书的减少的影响是很深远的，并且和当前日益增加的语言读写问题密切相关。
2006年澳洲统计局进行的成人读写水平和生活技能的调查显示，有46%和70%的澳洲人在prose literacy, document literacy, numeracy, problem-solving和health literacy这五项关键技能中有一项或者多项是在“较差”和“很差”的段落里。专家们认为从孩子年幼开始父母就读书给孩子听能够帮助孩子们发展日后必要的自主读写能力。
南澳州立图书馆公共图书服务部门的Associate Director Geoff Strempel认为，和你的小宝宝一起分享阅读，韵律，唱歌和交谈的乐趣，是打开你的宝宝人生乐章的最佳途径之一。对于鼓励父母们读书给儿童听的方面，Strempel先生指出对于大脑发育的研究显示，如果从孩子出生开始就读书给他们听，孩子发展正式读写之前的阅读教育对孩子的学习能力影响最大。
Strempel先生解释说：“有一半比例的孩子大脑发育是在出生和4岁之间，对于孩子来说开始阅读的最好时机是他们还是婴儿的时候 - 6周大的宝宝就可以喜欢听父母读书给他们听并会享受看图片。这是帮助孩子发展听说技能的最好途径。” Strempel先生也指出到了2-3岁的年龄，孩子们开始发展对字母和单词的意识。“特别是学龄前儿童已经完全可以从成人读书给他们听中学习了。”
要让孩子们有更高的读写能力可能不像单纯读更多的书给他们听那样简单，现实是，要让孩子对阅读产生兴趣不总是一件容易的事情。对此，Strempel先生的忠告是，这是家长们必须面对的挑战，帮助孩子成为一个好的自主阅读者不再被认为是仅仅学校的责任。
所以，为了让家长们能够面对这个挑战，下面是一些专家们的建议。
This story was found at: http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/ ... 20110104-19esc.html
[ 本帖最后由 patrickzhu 于 2011-1-5 20:24 编辑 ]
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我从宝宝会坐着开始，就给她看绘本讲故事了。。。天天如此。。现在宝宝会自己复述故事，当然是挑重点词语复述。。。
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Tips to make reading a fun activity for all the family
Joseph Kelly
January 4, 2011 - 10:08AM
To try and make the task of reading to your kids easier, Essential Baby asked a panel of experts for their tips on how to make reading a fun activity for all the family.
This story was found at: http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/kids/kids-education-and-play/tips-to-make-reading-a-fun-activity-for-all-the-family-20110104-19e6w.html
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Mem Fox, children’s author www.memfox.net
Spend at least ten wildly happy minutes every single day reading aloud.
Read at least three stories a day: it may be the same story three times. Children need to hear a thousand stories before they can begin to learn to read.
Read aloud with animation. Listen to your own voice and don't be dull, or flat, or boring. Hang loose and be loud, have fun and laugh a lot.
Read with joy and enjoyment: real enjoyment for yourself and great joy for the listeners.
Read the stories that the kids love, over and over and over again, and always read in the same ‘tune’ for each book: i.e. with the same intonations on each page, each time.
Let children hear lots of language by talking to them constantly about the pictures, or anything else connected to the book; or sing any old song that you can remember; or say nursery rhymes in a bouncy way; or be noisy together doing clapping games.
Look for rhyme, rhythm or repetition in books for young children, and make sure the books are really short.
Play games with the things that you and the child can see on the page, such as letting kids finish rhymes, and finding the letters that start the child’s name and yours, remembering that it’s never work, it’s always a fabulous game.
Never ever teach reading, or get tense around books.
Please read aloud every day, mums and dads, because you just love being with your child, not because it’s the right thing to do.
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不好意思插队了。。。
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Danny Katz, children’s author and columnist
The problem with reading books to kids is they always want a book at bedtime and that's the worst time for me to read books. I'm too tired, I can't even read books for myself at bed-time - I can't get past the first two pages of Who Weekly; I just glance through the celebrity photo section and have a laugh at all the movie stars caught at airports without their make-up - then I'm ready for bed. All I want to do at night is relax; I just want to sit on the couch in front of the TV and eat a Family Block of Cadbury Fruit n' Nut before the first commercial break on Family Guy. There's got to be a better time for reading books to kids, like in the afternoon on a Sunday at around 2, just after lunch.
The other problem with reading kids books is that I’m not a very good kid's book reader. My voice is drab and monotonous. And no matter how hard I try, I can't do accents. I've heard other parents reading books to their kids and they’re doing all kinds of accents and animals noises and funny sounds - they've got drama skills. But I'm reading Pinnochio and I can't even do the voice of Gepetto: "There little wooden head, you're all finished. I have just the name for you - Pinocchio!" My daughter’s looking at me and she's confused; she's seen the movie twice, she knows Gepetto's supposed to be an old Italian guy, THEN WHY'S HE SOUNDING LIKE A PAKISTANI WHO'S SPENT A BIT OF TIME IN MEXICO?
But the biggest problem of all is this: I suffer from a serious affliction called IMMATURE-ITIS, it’s a condition that turns a mature, respectable man with a wife and two kids into a snickering little schoolboy. I was reading Mother Goose to them - a lovely old book with old-fashioned illustrations where all the girls have pink cheeks and bonnets and all the boys have feathers in their hats and floppy, girly Bieber haircuts.
But I couldn’t get past Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn, the sheep’s in the meadow, the cow’s in the corn, but where is the... boy... I started giggling and smirking. Blow your horn, blow your horn, heh heh heh.
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Tony Wilson, children’s author www.tonywilson.com.au
Choose good books. Sometimes, we as adults can’t tell because the kids will prefer some awful pap that completely eludes our quality filter. But there are so many books that parents can enjoy and kids can enjoy too. I find it pretty easy to steer my daughter Polly towards quality stuff, like Julia Donaldson or Oliver Jeffers. If everyone is enjoying the story, that translates to a positive reading experience. The other thing is for parents to practice their reading. So many adults I hear bolt through a story, without putting any emotion into the read. It’s a performance. Just as we wouldn’t want to sit through an awful film or play, kids need a measure of entertainment. Scan your eyes a few words ahead so that you know what is coming, and then give it a bit of drama. Try funny voices. When I’m reading to kids, I get them to pretend to be flowers in the walking class or kids at a free pants convention. That might not work so well calming them down at bedtime, but the idea is to be creative. For kids with an arts /craft bent, you can encourage drawing scenes from their favourite books. It all builds into a love of reading.
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Robert Greenberg, children’s author www.childrenstelevision.net
What do think are the elements that make a good kids book?
Exactly the same stuff that makes a good book for adults- great characters and a story that keeps you guessing. Sounds easy I suppose, but it’s got to have all the layers that allow it to be read and re read. Hmm, bit like a good book for adults. That really is my philosophy, great characters that a child can relate to and a story the goes like an electric toothbrush during a power surge.
Kids like the titles of my books like- There's Money In Toilets - they try to guess what its about before they read it. And Swimming with Skeletons is a title that’s caused a few night terrors with kids but I’m told it’s a stage they’ll grow out of.
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Lucy Goodman, creator of children’s television show Bookaboo (on ABC2) www.bookaboo.co.uk
I’m not a child expert, simply a programme maker who loves books so I write these tips from my own experience:
1. Do everything that you can to bring the story to life. Let the actor in you live a little! Try those character voices – it’s not ‘X Factor’, no one will judge you.
2. Use your finger on the page to follow the action. If a bird ‘flies through the air’, then point at the bird and follow the arc with your finger that the bird might make. It’s a way of you animating the book yourself and seems to help children follow the story and keep their attention.
3. If you can’t get back for bedtime, find another time you can read regularly. Bookaboo says ‘books are for anytime, not just for beddy time!’ If there’s a boring wait at the doctor or dentist, a long bus trip , then pack a book. Time is tough to find these days, but books don’t have to be purely a bedtime activity.
4. Try your own ‘bookabag’. I tried this and it’s how the bookabag came into being. Find a bag you can call a bookabag. Any bag will do. Just make it one that you keep for this purpose. Then, at a time much earlier than bedtime (teatime, after nursery/school), you start the ‘game’. There are two options in this game. Do both. Option 1, you ask your child to choose a book and place it in the ‘bookabag’. You cover your eyes and ask them to make it a surprise. Just make sure they’re only looking at children’s books ie keep ‘War and Peace’ well out of the way! They pack the bag and put it in their bedroom for bedtime (or whenever you choose is ‘storytime’). When storytime comes, you then make a big show of letting the child pull out the book as a big surprise for you. Option 2, you ask your child to cover their eyes and you pick a book and place it in the ‘bookabag’ which you hide until storytime. Once again, at storytime, you make a big deal, really build the suspense before revealing the book. There’s something about this really quite simple game that makes the book incredibly special. It’s also a handy incentive to help get children to bed or to storytime.
5. If you’re a mum with boy/s – try and find someone male (family or friend) who can share a book too. The research I did seemed to indicate that male reading models are important to boys who can all too easily assume it’s a ‘girl’ thing.
6. Don’t forget your family friends and grandparents. They’ll often be more eager than you realise to share the ‘load’ and it enables them to spend special time with a child that they care about too.
7. Finally, whatever you do – make it fun. It’s making it fun that will I hope inspire a lifelong love of books – truly one of the great gifts you can give your child.
As I say, I’m not an expert, these are simply tips from my own experience and I’m always eager to hear others.
[ 本帖最后由 patrickzhu 于 2011-1-5 20:09 编辑 ]
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这个作家的建议最为直接和量化，对于家长是个一巨大的鸭梨
因为她说，父母每天花费至少10分钟给孩子大声朗读，一天至少读三个故事，当然也可以读同一个故事三遍。
儿童在他们学会自主阅读前需要听1000个故事。
幼儿版的妈妈们可以开始忙了
[ 本帖最后由 patrickzhu 于 2011-1-5 12:51 编辑 ]
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我家宝如果不限制，一天要求讲６－１０个故事，现在我只拿出一本书，讲完一遍，她会要求再讲一遍，一般讲３遍我就开始犯困了。。。她还继续精神着。。。
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嗯，所以你不需要担心，1000个故事的指标一年就完成了，恭喜你
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都是英文呀。看着就头晕。朱版要是能有中文版的就好了。
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期待好心人来翻译
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强烈推荐 聪明豆系列绘本。。。有一本叫《忘了说我爱你》，主要意思是小熊妈妈送小熊去幼儿园，因为要迟到走的匆忙，忘记和小熊说我爱你了，小熊哭了，就在这个时候妈妈回来了，说对不起妈妈忘了说我爱你。。。。
今天早上我上班离开家关上门，就听见宝宝冲到门口哭着敲门,说“妈妈我爱你"。。。我的眼泪都下来了。。。立刻回头开门枹她亲她说”妈妈也爱你“。。宝宝立刻就不哭了，还给我了个无比甜蜜的笑容。。。。
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很赞同LZ的。
我的儿子很小的时候给他读书，现在有些书已经还给图书馆了，但是我把他最喜欢的书背给他听，如果他哭闹的话，一下子就会安静下来，并且开始微笑。
可见小人的记忆力是超强的。
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准备开始巨大工程，不过我读书给小熊妹她好像没什么反应似的。
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叫驴贴
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开始都是没反应的，但是实际上他们脑子在转呢。。。逐渐就好了，还会有互动
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嗯，本帖才是真正的叫驴贴！
如果孩子对于阅读没有一丁点兴趣，或者父母对此什么也没有做，那才是会让人抓狂的焦虑。
其他OC，精英，私校奖学金，公立/私立学校，学区选择，游泳，画画，中文，钢琴，小提琴。。。等等。。。等等。。。都是无伤大碍的焦虑。
[ 本帖最后由 patrickzhu 于 2011-1-5 17:34 编辑 ]
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什么是叫驴贴？请给扫下盲
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焦虑帖
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我在此记录版权
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哈哈
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话说今天我们去图书馆，发现里面好多人啊，特别是KID‘S SECTION ，你们焦虑吗？
我近来发现我给我儿子读书的时候，他的注意力不集中了。
我该怎么办啊？
焦虑焦虑
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我家小胖8个月了，每次给他读书都像受刑一样，5秒钟就哭的鼻涕眼泪的挣扎着要走
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Great books for kids under five
Fiona Kyle-Russell
September 23, 2009
http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/toddler/toddler-products/great-books-for-kids-under-five-20090922-g08n.html
If you've re-read your child's books umpteen times, it may be time to re-stock the library! Here's a list of well known faves for children under five.
Books for Babies (from birth)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Time for Bed by Mem Fox
Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see? by Eric Carle (suitable up to 5 years)
Tickle Tickle by Helen Oxenbury
Story continues below Books for Toddlers – 18 months to 3 year olds
Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox
Mr McGee series by Pamela Allen (especially Mr McGee and the biting flea)
Play School (Children’s Show) Nursery Rhyme Favourites
We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
Who sank the boat? by Pamela Allen.
Hairy Maclary Series by Lynley Dodd
Books for 4 – 5 year olds
Pete the Sheep by Jackie French
Possum Magic by Mem Fox
Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
There's a Hippopotamus on our Roof Eating Cake by Hazel Edwards
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感谢分享!很重要，mark
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我每天晚上都要跟女儿讨价还价读书的数量， 惭愧啊~~
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