Mo Willems' Secrets For Raising a Reader

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http://www.scholastic.com/parent ... r-raising-a-reader/

Mo Willems' Secrets For Raising a Reader
By Andrea Barbalich

After 11 years of sharing books with his daughter, Trixie, Willems has learned a thing or seven about what makes kids go nuts for stories. Check out his genius advice and try his tips tonight! 

1. Yell and scream. "Be ridiculous when you read together. Make loud noises and jump around. If your child sees that you're enjoying the book, she will think reading is cool. If you’re rolling your eyes, your child will smell that."

 
2. Get it wrong. "I would deliberately read the words wrong to Trixie, and she would correct me. If we were reading Go, Dog. Go!, for example, I would say, ‘Go, Monkey, Go,’ and she would say, ‘No, Daddy, it’s a dog!’ Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs was inspired by that same sort of playfulness. It’s a spoof: They’re not bears, they’re dinosaurs instead this time around."


3. Forget your instincts. "Trixie and I have a ritual of going to the library every Saturday. I try to encourage her to always take out one book that she’s not naturally inclined to read. If she’s reading a lot of fantasy, I’ll suggest that she check out a realistic-fiction book. There’s a danger in reading only what you like and then finding yourself in a cycle. I try to have her not read the same book too often, either."

 
4. Read anything! "When Trixie was 6, we started reading comic books, like Calvin and Hobbes and Peanuts. Right now she’s interested in fantasy and magic. She likes the Rick Riordan books, and she’s deep into Guardians of Ga’Hoole. She also likes manga and reads magazines, like New Moon Girls and National Geographic." 


5. Pass the torch. "When I became the guy who reads comic books, my wife took over the more straightforward narrative reading with Trixie. Now they read out loud to each other."


6. Show some respect. "There’s no need to talk down to kids, in children’s books or otherwise. Kids are human beings, which some people seem to forget. Their emotional life is as deep and rich as ours, if not deeper."


7. Don't tell kids it's good for them. "Forget about reading being healthy. It’s not broccoli. In fact, most children’s books are lies. And the bigger the lie, the better the book — as long as it’s emotionally true."

子川妈

Mo Willems谈到的第三和第四点我尤为认同。

第三点充分体现了家长在孩子阅读中的引导作用。
孩子是可以爱上各种类型的书的，在于你怎么去诱其上钩。
孩子在不同时期需加强不同类型书的阅读，
这个因人而异，没什么定式。

谢谢shouchi兄分享。

无事生非

很好的文章，谢谢shouchi大。

勉强译一下，不是专业人士，有错勿怪。

培养书痴的秘诀：

1、惊声尖叫。“共读的时候表现得夸张点。声音要大，活蹦乱跳。如果你的孩子看到你那么迷这本书，她会认为阅读是很酷的事。假如你读得无语问苍天，孩子也立刻会嗅出你的百无聊赖来。”

2、出错，让孩子去捉虫。“我会故意把一些单词读错，她就会纠正我。比如说，当我们读‘Go, Dog, Go’的时候，我会说‘Go, Monkey, Go’。她就会说‘错了，爸爸，该说dog’。金发姑娘和三只恐龙的故事也是这样子玩着激发出来的。这次就说：它们不是熊，这次它们是三只恐龙。”

3、合理抑制内心的冲动。“女儿和我每逢周日必去图书馆。我努力鼓励她总是挑一本自己不是那么想读的书出来。如果她在大量的读幻想作品，我会建议她借一本现实主义的小说。如果只读你喜欢的书，你会发现自己在原地打转，这就危险了。同样的，我也努力不让她反复的读同一本书太多次。”

4、什么书都读！“在女儿6岁的时候，我们开始读连环漫画，像卡尔文和跳跳虎及史努比。现在她比较沉迷于幻想和魔法类的作品。她喜欢Rick Riordan的书，对猫头鹰王国非常着迷。她也爱看漫画和杂志，像New Moon Girls（可参考http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4af9014e0100kwxs.html）和国家地理杂志。”

5、薪火相传。“当我负责读连环漫画的时候，我妻子就接管了更简单的叙事类共读。现在她们大声的为对方朗读。”

6、表现尊重。“没必要对孩子摆架子，无论涉及童书还是别的什么。孩子是人，而有些人似乎忘了这一点。即便不比我们的更甚，他们的情感生活也和我们的一样深沉丰富。”

7、别跟孩子说这个对他们有好处。“别去想阅读什么健康的。这可不是西兰花。实际上，大多数的童书都是撒谎。而且这谎撒得越大，书就越好——只要它在情感上是真实的。”

[ 本帖最后由 无事生非 于 2012-8-22 23:28 编辑 ]

无事生非

恰恰是在第三点上，我还有点疑问。

一定要去引导吗？
要“管”孩子的阅读吗？
他很沉迷的时候，正是在精读啊，要给拉出来吗？

一类书读得越多，鉴别力通常会越高。
像我小时候爱读言情小说，读多了，就有自己的口味，眼光也比较毒，一本书翻几页就知道是不是我要的了。
现在看书也是这样的，某一类的书的确会看得多一些。不合口味的书，就扔在一边，哪怕评论说它很好很健康。

子川妈

这只是Mo Willems在不同时期对阅读提出了不同要求。

如果孩子还处在阅读初期，培养良好阅读习惯是首要任务。
当孩子已经爱上阅读，应该把重心转到提升阅读效率，将其从广度和深度推进的。

人生苦短，高效阅读非常重要。

怎样高效，这个还是值得探讨的，我觉得Mo Willems的第三条就是不错的建议。

个人观点，仅供参考。