Harvard-style picture book reading

Do you know how to use picture books is the correct way to open picture book education?

Many mothers tell their children stories from picture books on their own. Well-proposed parent-child reading seems to have become a “mother” one-man show, and there is nothing “children” at all. Here, the mother speaks dryly, and over there, the child is just passively listening. There is basically no communication and interaction.

However, this kind of parent-child reading method is very inefficient from the perspective of “activating the child’s brain”.

Dialogic Reading (Dialogic Reading) reading picture books can cultivate children’s 6 abilities such as “reading ability”, “thinking ability”, “communication ability”, “observation ability”, “knowledge vocabulary ability”, and “listening to listening ability”. .

These abilities are not only in learning, but also indispensable for children to succeed in society after entering society, and to develop their own lives through their own efforts.

This book combines years of research on picture books to improve children’s abilities by the author of Harvard University’s PhD in Education, compares the differences in the way picture books are read in the United States and Japan, and leads us to understand the benefits of “conversational reading”.

In addition, many classic picture books are given as examples in the book, which more vividly demonstrate how parents interact with children in picture book reading