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The perfect time to develop reading habits! Teaching tips specifically for first graders.

Teacher Song Jae-hwan's best-selling book, "First Grade Studying: Reading is Everything," which has been loved by countless parents for a long time, has been republished in line with the curriculum revision.
First grade is such an important time in life that it can be called the first step in life.
Depending on how you spend this time, your 16 years of school life will change.
To parents who are deeply concerned about the abundance of private education, floating educational information, and relationships with peers, the author asserts, “First-grade elementary school children only need to read books properly.”
Just by reading books, you will acquire the necessary elements for school life and studying.

This book contains a variety of reading methods, post-reading activities, and a list of recommended books tailored to the level of first graders.
For parents who are wondering, "How should I teach my elementary school-aged child?", this book will serve as a more reliable and useful guide than any other book.

It is only natural that children who attended English kindergartens suffer from a vocabulary poverty.
Usually, in English kindergartens, you can't use your Korean.
If you go to an English kindergarten, you will not hear or speak Korean for an average of 6 hours a day.
If you calculate it based on one year, it means that we cannot use our language for thousands of hours.
The kindergarten years are a very important time, right before the vocabulary explosion.
However, if you cannot hear and speak our language properly during this period, a gap in vocabulary is bound to occur.
If you try to become good at English, you may end up not being able to use your native language properly.


I don't want to condemn English kindergartens as bad.
If your child attends an English kindergarten, parents should take special measures to ensure that their child's native language vocabulary does not decline.
Otherwise, your child may struggle in class or become a troublemaker after entering elementary school due to a lack of vocabulary.
Parents should not overlook this fact.
---From "The Period of Explosive Vocabulary"

A child whose left brain has atrophied will dislike activities that actively use the left brain.
Reading is a representative activity that stimulates the left brain.
Considering that reading is the foundation of learning, this cannot help but be a serious problem.
Studying is the activity of reading and understanding books.
The richer your vocabulary and logical thinking, the better you can study.
Since vocabulary and logical thinking skills can be improved by stimulating the left brain, studying can be said to be an activity that is advantageous to people with a developed left brain.
Therefore, in order to study well, you must develop your left brain.
Children whose left brains are not well developed have a hard time understanding what is being said when they read books.
Also, the teacher's words sound like a foreign language.
Even if I read the book, I don't understand what it says, and I don't understand what the teacher says, so studying is basically out of the question.
---From "Reading to Balance the Left and Right Brain"

Rather than academic background, there was a significant difference in the amount of reading children did depending on how interested and active their parents were in reading.
Among children of parents who were active readers, 40.7 percent read more than three books a week, while only 29.2 percent of children of parents who were passive readers read the same amount of books.
This means that no matter how highly educated a child is, if the parents do not read books at home, the child will not read books at home either.
Conversely, this means that even if a child has low academic ability, if the parents read books at home, the child will also read books.
In short, if parents read books, their children will read books, and if parents don't read books, their children will never read books.
---From "Parents Who Read Books, Children Who Read Books"

Another way to read a book is to circle words your child doesn't know.
This method will help you read the book a little more deeply.
Parents can not only gauge their child's vocabulary through the circled words, but can also easily tell whether the book is appropriate for their child's level or not.
A book with about three unfamiliar words per page is usually considered appropriate for children.

Among the words that your child circled because he or she did not know, let's make a separate vocabulary notebook and record the important words.
By accumulating and recording unknown words, your child's vocabulary will not only improve, but he or she will also feel a sense of accomplishment.
Additionally, you can improve your hand strength by writing.

---From "Reading a Book by Hand, Reading While Writing"

A type of book talk called the '1-minute speech' is also a good post-reading activity for first graders.
It's about speaking out loud as if you were giving a presentation to your family about a book you've read.
This is different from a conversation.
A one-minute speech is a kind of coherent speech.
If you ask children in lower grades to give a one-minute speech, not to mention children in higher grades, they either can't finish the minute or they waste time talking incoherently.
If you ask children to give a one-minute speech about a book they have read, they will suddenly become speechless, even if they usually talk a lot.
This is because to give a good one-minute speech, you need the thinking ability to speak the contents of the book in a unified manner.
You need to remember who the main character is, why something important happened, how it ended, how you felt, etc.
A child who lacks systematic and logical thinking cannot give a proper one-minute speech.
---From "Oral Reading Activities"

If you want to read little by little, you have to read slowly.
Which is easier, reading quickly or slowly? It depends on the person, but it's often more difficult to get children to read slowly.
This is because children's daily reading habits are biased towards speed reading.
Children are very accustomed to speed reading, reading ravenously as if they are being chased by something.
However, most children feel unfamiliar with the idea of ​​'reading', which involves taking a local train and stopping at each station to enjoy the scenery.
But you have to read slowly to be able to analyze, you have to read lazily to be able to imagine, and you have to read leisurely to be able to criticize.
To get your child to read slowly, have them read out loud, underline important passages, and mark unfamiliar vocabulary.

---From "How to Read Classics Properly"