Before I talk about literacy, let me talk about imagination, because how imagination develops is the key.
What is imagination?
To put it simply, imagination is the ability of people to create new images in their minds on the basis of existing images.
To give a simple example, children have seen and eaten apples. When you ask your children if they want to eat apples? Even if there were no apples at home, children could imagine what apples looked like through their brains.
It's just that the image of this apple may only be seen by children, but if you let children draw apples, children will draw strange apples. And every apple painting that is different from the real one is an image created by children through imagination.
Whether children's literacy will stifle their imagination can be said for sure, it won't.
Many parents believe that early literacy will solidify children's thinking imagination, that is, when children see a word or a word, only the image of the word or the corresponding object will appear in their minds. Is this really the case? Not really. In my opinion, after children are literate, it helps to exercise their observation and imagination, because children have a sensitive period of interest in literacy, usually between 4 and 6 years old, and some children will extend to around 7 years old. In the sensitive period, children will have a strong interest in large and small words that can be seen everywhere. If parents seize this period, they will let their children know thousands of words in two years, which will help to cultivate their reading interest.
Children will have a rich imagination in communicating and reading picture books through the words they know.
In the process of literacy, children themselves will be very keen to stimulate imagination. This kind of imagination is completely imaginative. For example, when a child reads a picture book and sees a picture of a biscuit, he can also identify the word biscuit. At this time, it is particularly interesting if you and your child talk about cookies as a topic. If a mother says to her four-year-old daughter: Mom likes cartoon cookies best. They are crisp, sweet and delicious. ? I saw my daughter say: I like to eat monkey biscuits, because I like little monkeys. I can go upstairs without taking the stairs, and I can just jump up, but it's fast. ? Look, isn't the child's imagination very interesting?
How to protect children's imagination is what parents should focus on, and many parents can't do it.
Children's imagination is completely different from that of children or adults, because children learn less textbook knowledge and will not be solidified by a lot of knowledge. Therefore, literacy can better stimulate children's spatial imagination. Unfortunately, many parents don't have enough patience to find the sensitive period of children's interest in literacy in time, because you don't care, children's interest in observing words will soon be annihilated.
Don't be careless. During the sensitive period of literacy interest, children are often delighted to find a word they know, and will tell their mother or father happily, and even say many wonderful words around this word. However, parents' indifference soon made children feel disappointed and slowly stopped paying attention to words.
Conclusion: I have been engaged in family education research for more than ten years, and I have contacted many parents of excellent children. I found that parents generally pay special attention to early education. In particular, children's interest in literacy and interest in reading have been grasped in time. In this special stage, children's thoughts are simple, and as long as they are interested, they will be particularly focused, and the memory of literacy or reading is very amazing. At the same time, because there is no burden of homework before entering primary school, parents have more time to accompany their children and protect and stimulate their imagination in the process of literacy and reading.