Chinese characters have artistic beauty. Mr. Zhou Zuoren said that China's Chinese characters are playful, decorative and musical. First, China's classical poems condensed the essence of our mother tongue, and with its unique sense of rhythm, rhythm, aesthetic sense and other characteristics, it has always exuded charming noble temperament. In the process of teaching Yuanyuan to read poems, I gradually strengthened my understanding that children should recite poems, especially ancient poems.
When Tingting was four or five years old, I began to formally teach her to read ancient poems. The earliest reader we used was a set of illustrated Ancient Poems for Children, with six books and more than 100 poems. Those poems are very short, usually only four sentences. I often read these ancient poems with her and recite them together when I get familiar with them. There is no plan in this regard, so it is more casual, but because she insists on doing it, she will basically know some poems when she is six years old in primary school. She reads children's songs instead of reciting ancient poems. Personally, I don't quite agree with this view. After reading some materials in recent years, some people object to teaching children to read ancient poems when they are young. I don't know, just parrot-learn some syllables, so I suggest that children should be properly nurtured when they are young.
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Art needs perception first, and children don't pay attention to understanding when learning ancient poems. Ancient poetry has a strong sense of rhythm, and good perception will naturally form "understanding". It is one thing for adults to be unfamiliar with classical poetry, but children do not have this sense of alienation. Children's songs can be taught to children, but I can't replace ancient poetry in quantity and quality. Everyone's study time is limited, so we should teach our children the best things. If parents take out the ease and pleasure of reading children's songs and teach their children to say ancient poems, children will not feel the difference between pleasure and beauty of these two words. In addition, childhood is the golden age of memory. At this time, what you read and recite will be truly engraved in your mind and internalized into your own wisdom wealth. Therefore, we should cherish childhood recitation and don't let children waste their time on some mediocre works. Classical poetry, mainly Tang and Song poetry, I think it is worth reciting since childhood. Another misunderstanding caused by "difficult to understand" ancient poetry is that when teaching children to learn ancient poetry, they should explain it as much as possible and "translate" every sentence into "vernacular". In fact, what we should avoid when studying ancient poetry is "over-interpretation". The reasons are: first, based on the trust in children's understanding; Second, the beauty of artistic conception and writing of poetry lies in experience. They didn't need to explain. One explanation is the bondage of imagination and the destruction of language beauty.
Before the child is two or three years old, reading poetry needs no explanation, just regard reading poetry as singing and realize the sense of rhythm. When the child is four or five years old, he knows something, plus "explanation". But this explanation must be simple, simply say the meaning of this poem, and explain some words that affect understanding.