A Study On The Reading Guidance Of Wordless Picture Books For Children In Small Class

Wordless picture books are the art of telling stories through the combination of a series of pictures with a small amount of text or no text at all.Children in small classes mainly think in concrete images and are sensitive to the images,colors and characters in reading materials.Therefore,they have special significance and value for the development of children in small classes.However,the frequency of the use of wordless picture books in kindergartens in China is relatively low.There are also many problems in the process of instructing children to read wordless picture books.Based on this,this study mainly uses questionnaire survey,interview and case analysis to conduct a comprehensive study on the status quo of the reading guidance of children’s wordless picture books in small classes.This paper is divided into four parts.The first part is an overview of the reading guidance of children’s wordless picture books in small classes.The author defines the concepts of the reading guidance of the pictorial books without words and pictorial books without words.On the basis of the concepts,the author analyses the value of the reading guidance of the pictorial books for children in small classes,namely: stimulating the reading interest and confidence of children in small classes;promoting the development of children’s “image” reading ability;promoting the development of children’s oral expression ability in small classes;and promoting children’s imagination in small classes.To promote the development of aesthetic ability of children in small classes.The second part is the analysis of the present situation of the reading guidance of the children’s pictorial books without words in small classes.The author has carried on the thorough analysis from four aspects to the small class preschool children’s wordless picture book reading guidance present situation:First,the teacher to the wordless picture book cognition situation;Second,the teacher in the wordless picture book collective reading instruction situation;Third,the teacher in the wordless picture book parent-child reading instruction situation;Fourth,thekindergarten to the wordless picture book reading instruction support situation.The third part is the analysis of the problems and reasons in the instruction of children’s wordless picture book reading in small classes.There are some problems in the reading guidance of children’s wordless picture books in small classes: first,teachers’ misunderstanding of the wordless picture books;second,teachers’ inadequate preparation before the collective reading;third,teachers’ inadequate guidance in the process of collective reading;fourth,teacher’ inadequate guidance in parent-child reading;fifth,kindergartens’ lack of reading resources for wordless picture books.The reasons for the problems in the reading guidance of children’s wordless picture books in small classes are as follows: firstly,teachers lack professional and systematic knowledge of wordless picture books;secondly,teachers and parents attach importance to “text” reading and ignore the interpretation of “pictures”;thirdly,kindergartens do not attach enough importance to the reading of wordless picture books.The fourth part is about the guiding strategies for children’s reading of picture books without words in small classes.According to the above-mentioned problems and the analysis of the reasons,the guiding strategies for children’s wordless picture books reading in small classes are mainly embodied in the following aspects: firstly,teachers should improve their understanding of wordless picture books;secondly,teachers should create the necessary conditions for the reading of wordless picture books;thirdly,teachers should optimize the basic process of collective reading of wordless picture books;fourthly,teachers should strengthen the guidance for parent-child reading of wordless picture books;It is the kindergarten that should provide resource support for reading instruction of wordless picture books.