Tips for proper and good reading for children

 A study conducted at the Center for Brain Imaging in Children at the Technion's Faculty of Science and Technology (2019), led by Dr. Tzipi Horowitz-Krauss and at the Cincinnati Ohio Children's Hospital, found through MRI analysis that the brains of young children aged 3-5 exposed to long "screen times" Neurologically different from the brains of children who are exposed to reading books and not for the better.

 

The findings indicated low attention, impatience, difficulty coping with states of restraint, difficulty with abstract thinking and problem solving, and more for those who do not read books and are exposed to screens at a young age. So no matter which book you choose and what you know about it before, the main thing is that you read it.

 

So what is in these books? Or "what does he already find in it, all five balloons," one friend said to another as she told her that her eight-month-old baby was asking for the book over and over again. Do you know that children get excited about a number and want to read it again and you did not really understand? Have you ever wondered if the illustrations in the book have meaning? Because if not, this article is an opportunity to peek “into the secret world of books” for the child and parent.

 

So what is important to pay attention to when reading books to children?

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The meaning of the book:

Every book is a journey, similar to the journey of life in which there is a beginning (birth), a middle (life) and an end (death). In every book the world will have a hero who goes through a journey (through) in which he faces challenges and is forced to mobilize forces (of himself or authors) to deal with and resolve the crisis.

External form:

Children's books today are more meticulous than ever. After years of researching children's literature, the importance of illustration for the observing or reading child was understood in the previous century. Each book has a writer who brings the conceptual axis and an illustrator (sometimes he himself of course) who expresses in his paintings the visual expression of the idea.

Each pictorial expression in the children's book has its own meaning, as does the size of the book, the size and location of the writing, the relationship between the painting and the text, and more. Many times the illustration will have more details from the text that are intended to complete the experience and the message that the writer wants to convey. The illustrations are in fact the setting of the text, its soundtrack, and the place where each observer can complete details close to his world that he has perused.

Story structure:

Many children's books will include stock, a count - "An Act in Five Balloons" by Miriam Ruth mentioned above, for example counting the reduction of the travel balloons until it ends. Another book by Ruth “Hot Corn” is also a stock of campaign members joining along with it. Each of the books for young ages will have a melody (from the word sound) that aims to be the soundtrack of the book. A book built in a repetitive way, allows the child to prepare for the future, to be an active partner in the imaginary and realistic journey (reads and completes the story with the parent) and thus also reduce anxiety about the unknown because despite the crisis the journey is complete. Almost all children's books will be illustrated as a ZOOM IN-ZOOM OUT, which aims to bring in, almost physically, the viewer and the characters in the book, and especially in children's fairy tales will be characterized by a prominent feature or power unique to them.

Examples: In the story "Let There Be Evening" by Fanya Bergstein we can notice that the painting leads us like a camera from top to bottom from the moon to the village and the coop until we actually meet the characters up close. In another story such as "What do you do with a problem?" Of Kobi Yamada, we see how during the crisis the illustrations are gray to colorless and when the crisis is resolved in the journey the world begins to be filled with content and shades and so on in many other books.

The way readers read - travel partners:

The joint reading of books is important for the development of the ability to understand global and social phenomena of self and others, both because of the content presented in the book and because of the interaction between parent and child. Many studies have noted the contribution of reading books to the enrichment of knowledge, the development of language and wealth, the development of complex ways of thinking, and the development of literacy (curiosity for writing, drawing conclusions, creating content, and more).

 

Tips for proper and good reading for children

Hence I suggest in each book to conduct the research in it as follows:

 

 Look with the child in the title and guess with him what the book will be about. Most children will be happy to find out later in the story that they recognize the title image that will link them between the inside and the outside.

 Read the text according to the age of the child and if necessary shorten it. I know? The child will express boredom and lack of interest and patience instead of pleasure and curiosity.

 The child's inner world - paying attention to how our child looks at the illustrations, seeing what attracts him, what he perceives and understands from the details will teach us quite a bit about the developmental stage he is in and the content that engages him. Letting him tell the story according to the illustrations will give him a sense of reciprocity and control over the common space of the story.

 Discovering the Forces - Books often offer challenges or crises. Mental states found in books will often not be accessible in the natural parental discourse and therefore they can form the ground for a more developed discourse on coping, the wheel of life, high thinking that includes resolving conflicts in a variety of ways, and more. I highly recommend going back and asking the children at any age and depending on their level what they understood from the book, whether in their opinion the protagonist acted optimally and if not what he could have done and so on. We know from many studies done in the field that the twisting of high mental thinking through books leads to an improvement in the child's relationship with himself and the environment.

 With or without illustrations? Studies examining the differences in reading books with and without illustration have shown that without the support of the ceremony by illustration there will be an enriching interaction between the child and the parent based on completing the details in the discourse that the illustration completes otherwise (Samadja, Ziv, Aram; 2013). An advantage for one choice or another as long as the reading is done with the mediation of a parent or other adult (teacher, grandfather, etc.) so keep in mind that usually, a book with illustrations will be more attractive and multi-layered for the child to revisit without adult mediation later.

It is too short to continue touring the world of books, so no matter which book you choose and what you know about it before, the main thing is that you will read and discover the magic of union with your child (: