Why Did Harry Potter Make Children Want To Read Again? - Society

We persistently offer the child both books and cartoons "by age" - what we think is clear and interesting to him. But he gets nothing but entertainment from it. Yes, he is busy, and mom is free and can go about her business. But mom goes about her business - and the child is marking time, meaninglessly staring at the cartoon "by age." Ready to make a difference?

Growing up story? Not only

Any book read to a child or child should prepare him for the perception of more complex things.

Why "Harry Potter", written, among other things, by a teacher, gave the children back the desire to read? Not only because it's an incredibly entertaining and unobtrusively told growing up story

A reading child, a teenager subconsciously perceives Rowling's epic as a stepping stone to great literature - because it too has grown out of great literature. Because Harry Potter would not have been possible without, relatively speaking, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. This is the only way a good children's book can be - connected by thousands of threads with adult books.

"Harry Potter" inherits all British literature for children and all adults - at the same time, having absorbed the experience of Jane Austen and Milne, "Potteriana" brings its own and is written in a language that children can understand. Not primitive - understandable. It was not for nothing that Rowling was translated from English into English for American readers - so that nothing would confuse even in the smallest details. And what is incomprehensible in itself, but clear from the context - will be learned by itself in the course of reading.

Art that everyone understands

Therefore, Chukovsky is also interesting to children and great - he has always been an adherent of great art, understandable to everyone.

What books should children start reading? Perhaps it is with Chukovsky that it is better to start the first serious experiments of reading together with children - reading not soothing, not entertaining, but somewhere even therapeutic

In Chukovsky there is a cinematography that attracts children, and layering, understandable for adults. For adults it is a joy of recognition, and for a child it is acquaintance.

The child does not yet feel ironic references to other texts, but they gradually prepare him for acquaintance with these texts. “Oh, this garden, awful garden! I would be glad to forget him. There, under the scourges of the watchmen, a lot of animals are tormented, "- to those who grew up on these lines, and" Mtsyri "in the seventh grade will seem not so dull and incomprehensible.

Important reading rules

Rule # 1. Look in books for respect for the reader

One of Chukovsky's fairy tales has a very revealing dedication to “my dear children”. That's what we should look for in children's books - respect. Not ingratiating themselves (children perfectly feel ingratiating themselves and despising sugar-syrup attempts to please) and certainly not a look down on them, without convention and unnecessary irony.

Rule # 2. Choose clear books with a resource for development

As Chukovsky mastered the language of cinema, which had just appeared, and learned to speak it, so modern authors should look for the most cinematic things written in understandable words. And to be sure to be a little bit incomprehensible!

Rule number 3. If you like a cartoon - read the book on which it was filmed

If at first our main task is to enrich the child's vocabulary, the development of his speech (and if we have already managed to make the main mistake, encouraging him to a visual method of obtaining information earlier than it should have been), then it is worth trying those books on which cartoons were filmed, liked by the child.

We watch the cartoon "Geese-Swans", we see what the child liked, then we put him to bed - great, why not read it at night? And we closely follow where the child begins to get bored. We note why he is bored: because it is not interesting or because it is not clear?

Rule number 4. Explain unfamiliar words in books, cartoons

No matter how great the temptation is to bury your child on the screen and go about your business, if possible, watch cartoons with him. "This uncle Stepan Emelyanych, who picked a scarlet flower, is called a merchant: do you see, he went to another country to trade?" It is clear that in the place of the "merchant" anything can be.

Rule number 5. If necessary, contact a specialist

At the first suspicions that a child's reading problems are not related to something that he does not understand, and not something that he is not interested in, try, if possible, contact a good neurologist. The cause may be a visual impairment. Many neurological problems can be easily resolved if left unchecked.

Reading with a child, talking about the adventures of heroes and real life stories can be interesting for both adults and children. You will definitely become closer and each of you will learn something new

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