Tasks of extracurricular reading
Although at first glance it may seem thatThe list of extracurricular literature for the summer is just a teacher's whim, it is not. Summer reading is needed to help the child develop and acquire useful skills.
In Russia, not every school issues a summer reading list, although summer reading helps a child develop even during the holiday period. Photo: Getty In Russia, summer reading should solve the following problems:
- Increase reading speed. Each year, reading speed requirements are growing, so without additional training, the child can read few words per minute.
- Development horizons. The list of books teachers issue, starting with the first class. The development of horizons occurs throughout a person’s life, therefore, in the second grade, literature is designed to help continue to develop it.
- Forming the right values and attitudes. Reading stories helps to raise a child from the moral side. He formed concepts about social life.
- The assimilation of more complex material. As the child grows, the complexity of the works for the summer also changes. Every year he will learn to absorb more complex material.
That is why it is important for a child to not only spend time on the computer and outside in the summer, but also to read books.
Secondary reading speed requirements
In the second grade, the demands on the child increase:
- The number of words read per minute doubles to 65 words per minute.
- While reading, the child must read the words with the correct emphasis.
- The child must pronounce the words clearly, not swallow the sounds and clearly pronounce the endings.
To check your child's reading speed level,give him a work of his level and ask him to start reading, time it for a minute and after the time has elapsed, stop him and count the words. Compare his result with the requirements. If it does not correspond to the norm, then pay more attention to how much the child reads.
List of works for the summer
The most basic works that second graders need to read are:
- "The Scarlet Flower" Aksakova
- "The Tale of the Priest and His Workman Balda" and "The Tale of the Golden Cockerel" by Pushkin;
- "By the Pike's Command" by Tolstoy;
- "The Princess and the Pea" by Andersen
- "Puss in Boots" and "Cinderella" by Charles Perrault;
- «The Adventures of Cipollino» Rodari;
- "In the Land of Unlearned Lessons" by Geraskina;
- "Moroz Ivanovich" Odoevsky;
It is also important to start learning poems by heart in the second grade, which helps develop the child's memory. Poems such as:
- "What is good and what is bad?" Mayakovsky;
- "The sky was already breathing autumn" Pushkin;
- "Night" and "Birch" by Yesenin;
- "The swallows have disappeared" Feta.
By reading and memorizing poems,The child's memory, imagination and attentiveness develop. Summer reading helps the child not to relax during the summer period. Thanks to this, he will come to school prepared on September 1 and will study better than his classmates who did not read during the summer.
