Starting in the 4th grade of elementary school, learning begins in earnest.
I have learned all the basics, including reading and writing to some extent, and division among the four basic operations.
There is no need to teach them how to hold a pencil anymore, no need to teach them Korean, and no need to teach them the multiplication tables.
All you have to do is study properly based on the basics you have learned so far.
And that's not all.
Now, he understands well enough to have a conversation, but he still has the innocence of a younger child, so he listens well to his parents and teachers.
Third graders still sometimes have trouble understanding what's being said, and fifth graders are starting to gradually stop listening to adults, but fourth graders aren't like that.
So, it is a good grade to start learning in earnest more than ever.

---From "There is no answer to studying by listening"

We live in an age where anything is possible if you have the literacy skills to read books.
The world is overflowing with knowledge.
Even in a small country like ours, dozens of books are published every day, and even more knowledge is uploaded to Google and Naver.
All this knowledge can be utilized if you have knowledge book literacy.
For those who have the knowledge and literacy to read books, the Internet, a sea of ​​information, becomes a space filled with all possibilities.
If there's anything I want to do or know, I can always find, access, and utilize it.
Without knowledge book literacy, you won't be able to utilize all of this properly.

---From "Why is knowledge book literacy important?"

Studying solely by selling textbooks while neglecting reading is bound to lead to problems due to the limitations of textbooks.
And when that accumulates over a decade or more, the shortfall can become more significant than expected.
This is especially true in a situation where the abolition of the CSAT is continuously discussed and the IB International Baccalaureate curriculum is mentioned.
Beyond grades, broader study is necessary for a larger purpose beyond grades.

---From "Why Textbooks Alone Are Insufficient"

It's easy to read books that are far below your level.
Just put the book in like a washing machine and press the 'read' button, and you will get a clear 'understanding'.
But the general literacy process is different.
Simply reading it doesn't give you a pure understanding.
In this case, it is closer to hand washing than washing in a washing machine.
You need to find the parts that are difficult to understand and rub them in.
Literacy in knowledge books is a little more difficult than this.
You must learn knowledge as well as understand the text.
So, knowledge book literacy is similar to boiling laundry after hand washing.
Contamination that has penetrated deep into the laundry cannot be removed by hand washing alone and must be removed by boiling.
Knowledge deeply embedded in texts cannot be sufficiently learned through general literacy alone.
So, you should read books like you would boil laundry.

---From “The Process of Recognizing, Understanding, and Mastering Knowledge”

Why do children find knowledge books more difficult? It's because of the human-scale difference between knowledge books and storybooks.
Human scale means being physically and mentally suitable for humans.
If it is a size that fits the human body or can be encountered on a daily basis, it is human scale.
A raft, a hut, a cat, and pebbles are examples of human scale.
Conversely, if it is not a size that fits the human body or is difficult to access on a daily basis, it is not human scale.
So aircraft carriers, skyscrapers, bacteria, and ultrafine dust are not on a human scale.
The human scale is comfortable and easy to use because it is physically and mentally suitable for humans and is familiar to them.
It's the opposite of human scale.
---From "Why Knowledge Books Are More Difficult Than Storybooks"

If your child is in second grade or higher, I recommend that they spend time studying with knowledge books.
It is not simply reading a book of knowledge, but reading it with the mindset of studying the book of knowledge.
Of course, you should read it so that you can actually study, not just have that mindset.
Let's call this type of reading 'Read to learn.'
Learning reading is reading for learning.
You don't read for fun or to learn how to read.
Also, it is not something you just read through without knowing whether you know it or not.
Reading is to learn and study the knowledge contained in the book.

---From "A Surefire Way to Improve Literacy"

Activating background knowledge is the process of awakening background knowledge that is dormant in your mind.
It's about recalling knowledge that you already have but aren't currently recalling.
We have a lot of knowledge in our heads.
But at this moment, we are not aware of that knowledge.
The knowledge in our heads lies dormant and awakens when properly stimulated.
Then it comes to our mind and we become aware of it.
It's like a photo saved on your smartphone.
You have a lot of photos stored on your smartphone, but not all of them are currently on the screen.
If you go into the album and touch it, it will appear on the screen.
This is exactly what background knowledge activation is all about.
It means touching the knowledge that is dormant in your head but not called out.

---From "Expanding Background Knowledge"

Children who know a lot of vocabulary understand text well.
Children who understand text well read more.
Children who read more are exposed to more vocabulary and consequently know more vocabulary.
And this brings us back to the beginning to understand the text better.
The opposite phenomenon also occurs.
Children with smaller vocabularies have less ability to understand written text and therefore do not read well.
As a result, the vocabulary you encounter decreases and your vocabulary deficiency becomes more serious.
This is also the beginning, and things are getting worse.
So, for children's literacy, we need to turn the Matthew effect of vocabulary into a virtuous cycle.
Let's look at three ways to do this now.
It is about raising word awareness, acquiring vocabulary, and learning vocabulary.

---From "Raising Word Awareness"

The Korean language test texts should be read in a different way than when reading a general knowledge book.
Because there is a time limit on the Korean language test.
In general learning reading situations, there is no time limit, so reading deeply is the most important, but in the Korean language test, reading accurately within a limited time is important.
So reading skills become even more important.
From now on, we will learn what skills we should use when reading Korean language test passages.
The Korean language test text we will be looking at this time is the 2010 National Unified Academic Achievement Test for first-year middle school students.


… (omitted) … If an unfamiliar word appears at the beginning of a sentence, you should pay attention to that word.
Because it is likely to be a core concept.
Coltan is marked with a square.
Tantalum is also an unfamiliar word, so it is marked with a box.
They say that refining coltan produces tantalum, so I'll connect them with arrows.

---From "Studying Korean Language Test Texts"

Educational comics are books that incorporate learning elements into comics that children like.
It is loved by parents and children alike because it allows them to study while having fun reading.
However, the problem is that children often only watch cartoons and do not learn anything.
We read the fun and funny parts over and over again, but we don't read the actual learning parts properly.
This problem must be solved in order to properly utilize educational comics.

---From "Studying Educational Comics"