"My 9-year-old son has never liked reading, and his Chinese performance is weak. In the third grade, we thought it was very necessary to cultivate reading habits, but our son was sleepy as soon as he read, and sometimes he was angry and funny. What should I do? "
The importance of reading for children has been mentioned more and more, and parents have paid more and more attention to it. They really want to cultivate good reading habits for their children, improve their knowledge level and promote their academic performance.
Cognitive neuroscientists have confirmed that if the physiological structure of the brain does not change, a person cannot be an excellent reader.
The relationship between reading and brain
There is an area of the brain called temporal lobe, which is responsible for processing memory, hearing, vision and emotional information, that is to say, it has the function of storing my "experience".
When we are faced with problems or difficulties in life and work, we rely on the experience stored in our brains and the knowledge and experience formed from it to find solutions to the problems.
All this information from reading will form a "knowledge base" in your mind. Once knowledge is accumulated in your brain, it will form a feeling that determines people's actions, so that you have the ability to deal with anything that comes from life.
Without reading, brain tissue will become thinner.
Reading is a high-intensity and complicated "movement" that takes place in the mind. Neuroscientists did an interesting experiment about how reading affects the brain. They found that when reading, many areas of the cerebral cortex "glow" at the same time.
The abstract words seen by the eyes are instantly compiled into accurate meanings by the brain. In the eyes of scientists, a brain that can read is as magical as a philosopher's stone that turns stone into gold. This powerful function can only be realized through the "cooperation" of many parts of the brain.
In the process of reading, the information of the left and right brains circulates at a high speed, which relies heavily on the corpus callosum located in the middle of the two brains. You can think of it as the "information transfer station" of the brain. Like our muscles, it follows the law of "use in and waste out".
Stanislas Dion, a famous French educational neuroscientist, once examined the brain of an illiterate person. Surprisingly, in many research cases, the brain CT images of illiterate people are so unique. His corpus callosum is much thinner than ordinary people, and it is not closely related to the surrounding brain tissue.
In addition, scientists have discovered some special families in Portugal. Because these families have no money to educate all their children, they will choose to let their sisters do housework at home and let their younger brothers and sisters go to school.
Scientists screened out six pairs of sisters from such families. Each pair of sisters have similar growth environment, similar social activities, the same gender, and are very similar in all aspects. The only difference is that my sister is illiterate and my sister is educated.
Scientists have done a lot of tests on these six pairs of sisters, and observed the brain activation reaction of the subjects through advanced scientific instruments and equipment such as magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography.
Scientists have found that educated sisters have thicker calluses on their backs. The corpus callosum connects the left and right hemispheres, and its thickening makes the information exchange between the two hemispheres more, faster and more effective.
Moreover, more experiments have confirmed that healthy readers, whether Chinese readers or English readers, will invariably create a small brain region in the left occipital-temporal region, which neuroscientists call the "text box region".
It is like a high-function CPU, which not only receives and processes text information, but also sends the processed information to relevant brain regions.
In the early stage of training, the reading division of brain nerves is rough, several neurons will grab the same "job", and different neurons may "shuffle" each other.
Through study and training, roughness will gradually turn to refinement. Each neuron will have a precise division of labor and respond accurately to a limited range of stimuli. Master the ability to read and understand text information quickly through efficient collaborative work.
Seeing this, parents must hope that their children can develop good reading habits, improve their reading ability and increase their knowledge and ability accumulation! The method can refer to the following ~
Strengthen the connection between the cranial nerves and develop a brain that reads efficiently.
Neurons have strong plasticity, and pay attention to the principle of "use in and discard out", that is, the more they are used, the more they can be strengthened, and they will be disconnected if they are not used often.
Therefore, in order to cultivate a "reading brain", let children divide their work efficiently, absorb knowledge and use it flexibly, we can carry out integrated training according to the functional areas of the brain involved in reading, and train different areas of the brain more accurately through EEG biofeedback training that supports multi-point training, thus enhancing the connection of the whole nerve.
When all the functions of the brain and the whole neural network are fully improved, children's attention, memory and cognitive processing ability will be improved, thus achieving the goal of comprehensively improving reading ability.
Gradually develop reading habits
0 1 Improve communication and don't let children become "poor students".
Reading experts have found that there is an indicator that can predict children's future reading ability before they can read. This indicator is vocabulary, and students who are "poor in words" are more likely to encounter reading difficulties and learning difficulties.
Therefore, parents should talk to their children more and use rich languages. Even if children can't fully understand it, the stimulation of rich vocabulary is of great benefit to their language.
If children are particularly uninterested in reading, they will feel sleepy and lose concentration when reading. Parents can "read" their children first, or let them read the words first, which can enhance the reading atmosphere and help them concentrate.
Persist in reading and then persist.
In order to make children turn reading into a habit, they rely more on the guidance of adults at first. Many parents are inexperienced in this field and may buy books for their children, but they don't know how to arrange them in the future.
You can refer to professional psychological cognitive training, integrate study and life together, and help children achieve orderly self-management (including time management, emotional management, life management, etc.). ) from the child's personality characteristics and daily study and life.
Doing so can promote children's interest in learning and reading. On the basis of changing children's thinking attitude, help children master good planning and management skills, arrange reading reasonably and actively, and improve their reading ability for a long time. "Reading the brain" is just around the corner!
In addition, parents can also let their children do some exercises related to reading training to improve their vocabulary and reading comprehension.
To this end, we have also carefully prepared a reading comprehension package (connotation reading comprehension improvement skills, explanations by famous teachers, and special exercises). If parents need it, they can reply to the "reading materials" for free in the background!
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