Q & A 3: Why do our series of books have no phonetic symbols or Chinese Pinyin?
Title: Series Q&A 3 Why do our series of books have no phonetic symbols or Chinese pinyin?
(1) The necessity of phonetic notation
advantage:
First understand why phonetic notation is needed? It includes different phonetic notation systems including Taiwan’s phonetic symbols and Mainland China’s Hanyu Pinyin. The main functions are 2. The 1st is to help prompt and remember the pronunciation of single words, and the 2nd is to help reading. When reading, if you encounter a word you don’t recognize, you can read it with the help of phonetic symbols. Children who can speak Chinese can be "illiterate". Able to read and understand.
Disadvantages:
There are two reasons. 1. It takes several months to learn this phonetic notation system. 2. It is easy to develop dependence. That is, children cannot read without phonetic symbols, which reduces the ability to read Chinese characters themselves. In addition, when learning the phonetic notation system of Chinese Pinyin, it is also necessary to avoid the period when children are learning English phonics to avoid confusion between the two.
What we firmly believe in is "reading literacy". This method has two main meanings:
The first is to read, read, and read again, to "understand" the meaning of words through reading, and to enhance the ability of "reading comprehension", not just to identify individual words.
Second, through reading, reading, and reading again, look at the word more and "recognize" the word itself directly. It emphasizes that children should focus their "visual attention" on the Chinese character itself and not be disturbed by any phonetic symbols. "Look at the glyphs" of attention.
(2) Advantages of “Reading Pen”:
There is no "phonetic notation system" that indicates pronunciation. How can we help children pronounce correctly, prompt pronunciation, and remember pronunciation?(3) Make better use of the golden learning period
This is the advantage of the reading pen. Our matching reading pen is easy to use. Children can click and listen as often as they want. There is no pressure and they can listen and read happily.Because there is no need to "spend time" learning "any phonetic system", it means that a few months of pre-school "literacy" are gained. This time is very precious, and children can make good use of it to read a lot of literacy, improve their reading ability early, and let the children "Feel" the charm and meaning of words early, "enjoy" the pleasure brought by reading, and learn to read without knowing it.
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