The benefit of extracurricular reading
Reading is useful at any age, but it is a habit, which means it needs to be developed. The sooner a child loves reading and starts doing it regularly, the easier it will be for him in life.It is important to start developing the habit of reading outside of class as early as first grade, so that as the child grows older, he or she understands the importance of reading books. Photo: Getty Reading outside of class helps:
- To develop the speed of reading. This will help him to quickly read the material in the textbooks throughout the year.
- Learn to put accents and words correctly. If the child reads the text aloud, then his speech will become purer and more correct.
- Develop imagination. Reading, unlike watching movies and cartoons, allows you to think through the characters yourself, and also present the whole story yourself.
- To assimilate the understanding of the material read. It is important, after reading the book, to ask the child what it was about, and what he understood from this.
All this confirms the fact that reading in the summer is necessary. It does not take much time, but brings great benefits.
Requirements for reading speed first-graders
To understand your child's reading speed, give him some work, ask him to read a piece of text and time it. Then evaluate the results:
- The child should read 35 words a minute.
- He must be able to correctly emphasize stresses.
- He must correctly read the words and pronounce the endings.
If the results obtained meet the criteria, then you can rest assured.
List of extracurricular literature
The main works that a first-grader should read are:
- "Moidodyr" of Chukovsky;
- "Aibolit" of Chukovsky;
- "Uncle Styopa" by Mikhalkov;
- "Living Hat" by Nosov
- "Gena the Crocodile and His Friends" by Uspensky;
- "The Hawk and the Lark" by Prishvin;
- "Puss in Boots" by Charles Perrault;
- "The Snow Queen" by Andersen
- "The Ugly Duckling" by Andersen
- "The Flute and the Jug"
- «Magpie and the hedgehog»;
- "The Fox and the Hare"
- «Golden Meadow».
Reading such works helps to formthe child's correct values, as well as ideas about good and evil. Developing a reading habit in a first-grader is an important task for parents. Thanks to this, the child's horizons, erudition, imagination and logic will increase. In addition, reading is a means of cultivating correct views of the world and forming the child's own opinion.