BEIJING, Nov. 6 (Ren Siyu) How to help primary school students write a good composition may be a headache for every parent. Instruct children to write about spring blossoms in spring, fruit fragrance in autumn, scenic spots when traveling, and housework when staying at home … … These topics seem to be "easy to write", but they are often not needed for a good composition. Seemingly simple composition, children often don’t know what to write and how to write it.
How should primary school students write a good composition? What educational misunderstandings should parents and teachers avoid? Recently, the writer Shang Ailan accepted an exclusive interview with Zhongxin. com. She has been teaching Chinese for 30 years. She told some "secrets" about composition with practical experience.
Avoid writing mom as a "domestic worker"
"My mother" and "I love my mother" can be said to be a topic that every child will write at school and parents are very concerned about, but many children will fall into a very familiar routine when they mention a pen:
In order to show "the brilliance of maternal love", children often write that their mothers are beautiful and capable, cooking, washing clothes and taking care of themselves when they are sick … … For example, "she leans towards my side with an umbrella and gets caught in the rain herself;" I didn’t study well, and she criticized me a lot. After the criticism, she touched my head and taught me kindly. I have a fever. She didn’t sleep a wink all night, and wrinkles have grown out. I must express my mother with good academic performance. "
However, according to Shang Ailan, who has been a Chinese teacher for many years, although the contact between mothers and children is mostly based on life, mothers are also people with independent personalities. She hopes that the image of mothers can be separated from the category of "domestic workers".
In the new book "Composition Class", she talked about an experience of tutoring primary school students to write a composition. In order to avoid "tragic" writing, she asked students to describe their mother’s occupation and what kind of characteristics they had, and encouraged children to tell stories between themselves and their mothers.
She believes that parents and teachers should realize that "as the first teacher of children, mothers must have abilities that children do not have, and they can teach by example." In this way, the image of mother in the composition can be changed from ‘ Domestic workers ’ It is also different from ‘ Mothers pay, children repay ’ The traditional thinking. Use ‘ Pay ’ And ‘ Gratitude ’ The family relationship maintained is by no means the original intention of my mother’s selfless dedication. "
After some guidance and narration, the children finally wrote an essay entitled "Mom Show Me Plum Blossoms", which was successfully published.
In Composition Class, Shang Ailan turned the primary school she had coached into three virtual images with different personalities: Wen Wen, Yi Yi and Ming Ming, and summed up her experience in composition education for many years by telling stories. All the conversations between teachers and students in the book are true records of the conversations in the teaching process.
Don’t be superstitious about the selection of excellent compositions.
Shang Ailan is a Chinese teacher who has been teaching for more than 30 years and a novel writer. In the autumn of 1999, the first online original literature competition was held under the banyan tree, with writers such as Wang Anyi, Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, Acheng and Wang Shuo as judges, and Shang Ailan was the winner of the best novel award in this competition.
For a long time, she was better known as "the mother of writer Jiang Fangzhou". Jiang Fangzhou said, "When I read this book, I will recall my mother’s education from childhood, which I think can be confirmed. For example, when I was a child, she wouldn’t let me read the selected compositions of primary school students, which my mother also reflected in the book. "
Many parents think that the direct way to help children write their compositions is to give them model documents to read, but Shang Ailan said that most of the so-called excellent compositions are trained in a modular way. If conditions permit, she hopes that children can read more and better literary works.
There are also "gorgeous rhetoric" accumulated by almost everyone in childhood. "Beautiful words and sentences are not the only aesthetics of Chinese. Simplicity and humor are the beauty of language. "She believes that the most fundamental purpose of all methods is to make children happy to express in words." If you only advocate aesthetics, it will cause great fear to write a composition. "
She wrote in the composition class that many people want teachers to teach them more "writing skills", but in fact, finding "what to write" is the most important writing ability. When we find out what to write, the problem of how to write will be solved.
Jiang Fangzhou also expressed the same view: "When I was a child, I wanted to write something, whether it was interesting or not, but my mother thought it was interesting. If you have the creative impulse, you should write it down. As for whether it is beautiful or not, it is actually the second problem to be solved. Creative impulse is the most precious. "
Parents and teachers should not be judges, but servers.
In addition to composition selection and kind words and sentences, in the Composition Class, Shang Ailan also put forward different thoughts on many composition methods:
"Don’t use pinyin instead of Chinese characters!"
"For children, adults should not teach him to be afraid of words before teaching him nothing."
"Writing personal experiences well is more effective than any flowery rhetoric."
She categorically pointed out that some so-called "guidance" is not a method at all, such as: "To have a clear theme, to be vivid, to be concise and to the point, not to distinguish between primary and secondary, not to be anticlimactic, and not to be dull in language … … It’s like a doctor saying, "You should be healthy, be alive and kicking, have sound limbs, and don’t get stomach disease, heart disease, periodontitis or schizophrenia … …”
Jiang Fangzhou wrote, "My mother in life is very shy and hesitant, but my mother in this book is a firm and wise teacher, and she has an uncompromising determination about composition teaching." In an interview, Shang Ailan explained that this is due to the teacher’s "occupational disease". These experiences have been thought for many years and proved to be effective, so they will be very determined.
She found that many parents, while worrying about their children’s composition, often like to arrange some topics that they think are "easy to write" for their children, such as writing pencils, pencil cases, schoolbags, desk lamps, etc. "You don’t want to increase his pain index, you should be a server and provide him with as many life experiences as possible."
To guide children to write good compositions, Shang Ailan believes that the first is to help them mobilize their personal memories and stories from their own experiences; The second is to start reading and turn reading into personal experience; The third is imitation or reference, and the learned works will also become the source of some inspiration.
"If you have a unique personal experience and experience — — The theme itself is the greatest value of the work; Telling this experience honestly and seriously is the best writing style. "
In her view, the biggest misunderstanding in composition education is the orientation of parents and teachers: "We may regard us as the ‘ Judge ’ So of course, the child writes some fake big blanks. Do you think he likes it? He thinks you like it. " The most fundamental position of parents and teachers should be the service provider of children’s writing, assisting him, helping him and pushing him to write better things.
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