Listening skills have a 'transfer effect' that improves not only your ability to understand but also your ability to speak.
When you listen, you can take in a variety of information, and you develop the will to use this information as nourishment to form thoughts and opinions and express them in words.
And this is the first step to building up your study skills.
Therefore, rather than forcing a child who is afraid of speaking to speak loudly, it is much more effective to provide them with ample opportunities to listen and help them gradually begin to speak on their own based on what they have heard.
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We've consistently taught our children how to read, and they're now capable of reading independently. Why don't they want to read? Unfortunately, it's because we haven't taught them to "want to read."
It's because we taught our children how to read so diligently, but we failed to maintain and develop the child's original desire to read.
Perhaps focusing solely on how to read books may have actually broken the child's heart.
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After finishing physical education on the playground with the first graders, I returned to the classroom and asked, “How was the playground play today?”
Most children answer like this:
“It was good!” When asked again what was so good about it, the children respond like this.

“Don’t you know?” “Just~” “Everything~~~!”
These are answers that come from children's emotions not yet being differentiated, and their inability to understand the source and depth of their emotions and why they are feeling that way.
But this kind of emotion
There are children who are particularly good at expressing their thoughts with appropriate words, as they know a lot of different types and are good at it.

“Teacher, the reason I liked it was because
“I'm so proud of myself for jumping rope for the first time in PE today! That was great!”
These children are those with excellent 'expressive language skills' as mentioned earlier.
Even though they spent the same amount of time in physical education, these children were able to express their feelings and situations in more specific ways, both verbally and in writing.
Besides, he is good at keeping a diary.
The secret to these children's expressive language skills is 'picture books' and 'listening reading.'
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In schools, there are far more children who do not like books than children who do.
Unfortunately, numerous studies have already proven that the gap widens as students advance in grade level.
Therefore, parents and teachers must constantly research ways to arouse interest in children who dislike books, asking, "How can I make this child like books?"
This is by no means an easy task, but it is certainly worth it.

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