135 story sharing-mother goose nursery rhymes

1. What is the mother goose nursery rhyme?

According to the law of human language learning, children's babbling has never been separated from the influence of rhyming nursery rhymes. Children in China have been reading The Little Mouse on the Lampstand and Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Shake Waipo Bridge since childhood, and many children love reading Beijing Nursery Rhyme. Children in Europe and America naturally have high-quality nursery rhymes with their own traditional characteristics. This is called "mother goose nursery rhyme" in English.

In fact, mother goose nursery rhymes are the collective name of British and American folk children's songs. There are only 52 poems in the original edition, which are included in the nursery rhymes of Newbury in 179 1. This version of children's songs can be regarded as the earliest collection of children's songs in the world. With the changes of the times, the content of children's songs has been expanding, and at most, about 800 children's songs have been included.

My American friend Josh is 39 years old and graduated from Columbia University. When I asked him about the nursery rhymes of Mother Goose, he could still blurt out those musical sentences.

Josh said that in America, every child can recite several songs about mother goose. When he was still babbling, his mother often read Mother Goose to him, which was a nursery rhyme deeply rooted in his heart and accompanied him all his life.

Because it has been circulating for a long time, many children's songs in Mother Goose's nursery rhymes are full of the colors of the times. /kloc-in the 0/8th century, the industrial revolution and social unrest occurred in Britain, and people began to spontaneously produce some small poems attacking the inequality between the rich and the poor in society, which were also included. To put it simply, the nursery rhymes of Mother Goose were not completely read to children at first, which reflected the emotions and moods of a large number of adults. There were many negative contents about life and death, crime, murder and loneliness in the lyrics. On a larger scale, if we can read the original version of Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes, we can get a glimpse of the brief history of British development.

After entering the 20th century, the publishers and illustrators of children's books in Britain and America found that this collection of nursery rhymes, which has been circulating for many years, is very suitable for children to read in the primary stage of learning a language because of its excellent reading rhythm and rhyming words, so they returned these nursery rhymes to "nursery rhymes" themselves, accompanied by warm and loving illustrations, and revised the words that were not suitable for reading nursery rhymes, or deleted some nursery rhymes.

At present, the most famous mother goose nursery rhyme is the version of My First Mother Goose recommended by Liao Caixing, but in fact, as a folk ballad that has been circulated in Europe and America for many years, it is the material that many children's book illustrators are scrambling to adapt. Therefore, the good version of mother goose nursery rhymes is far more than this version.

For example, what you see in the picture below:

First, I like to watch mother goose nursery rhymes made by children's books.

Today, I want to introduce this version of Sylvia Long, an illustrator of American children's books, which was introduced by China Jubilee Reading Children's Books. The librarian who published it is like this:

As far as the author's popularity and praise are concerned, Sylvia Lang is no less than My First Goose:

She has personally won ten kinds of children's book illustration creation awards, and he knows very well that it is difficult to create different mother goose nursery rhymes. When writing this version of "Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes", the author once said:

"Mother Goose nursery rhymes have such a long and profound cultural heritage. The bookstore is full of various versions of mother goose nursery rhymes, many of which are wonderful. I strongly feel that unless I can make it different, there is no need to make another version. "

-Sylvia Lang

In the American children's book circle, Sylvia Long's version of Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes has been widely recognized and won various star reviews and awards from mainstream magazines:

The planning editor of this book once talked to me about the planning ideas of this book:

As a planning editor, there are two responsibilities: the first is to screen good books, and the process of finding high-quality topics just mentioned is the process of screening good books for readers; The second responsibility is the editor's core work, planning a good book-how to present this book to readers in the best form, so that readers feel useful and easy to use.

When planning this set of mother goose nursery rhymes, the editors racked their brains to consider the parents' ideas, and from the user's point of view, they thought about the use plan round after round:

How can we make full use of this nursery rhyme?

How can we make nursery rhymes not only nursery rhymes, but also become the adhesive of family parent-child interaction?

Finally, they positioned this nursery rhyme as "playing nursery rhymes". Can nursery rhymes only be read? Of course not. Nursery rhymes can be used as excellent materials for English games. Let children discover the charm of nursery rhymes through games, naturally absorb and accept English melodies, and form good listening and discriminating abilities.

The publishing house selected 10 nursery rhymes from 82 nursery rhymes as the representative, and provided them with nursery rhymes background introduction, key words and sentence patterns, as well as two extended games for families to play. It took a lot of effort to find a reading guide, and finally decided to invite a cherry teacher who has taught in Britain for many years to write a reading guide for nursery rhymes.

So, this part, this is the biggest difference between the imported version and the original version. Now there is a trend that parents are very keen to buy original books. Everyone subconsciously thinks that the original book is a pure English environment, so it is bigger and higher. But in fact, the original is not necessarily suitable for all families. They are only suitable for parents with excellent English. Because the original English book is not directly aimed at children who learn a second language, the original English book is aimed at children who speak English, so the English learning attribute of the book will not be considered. While retaining the original English version, the imported version takes into account the needs of children in China and parents in China, and appropriately adds some auxiliary materials, such as the Chinese translation of this set of mother goose nursery rhymes, game guides, audio books, etc., all for the children in China to better absorb.

In order to preserve the appearance of the original English version to the greatest extent, except for the words "Mother Goose's Nursery Rhyme" on the cover, the text was kept exactly the same as the original. In addition to the full English version, we also made a slightly smaller Chinese translation, which is actually a set of two books, one in English and one in Chinese!

Third, mother goose nursery rhymes-we sharpen our ears like this to enhance the sense of idioms.

Before I talk about the specific methods, I want to choose one of this mother goose nursery rhyme to show you the unique rhythm of English nursery rhymes.

Speaking of little stars, I believe many people can hum them. You are the first English song that many children learn, but most people have only heard the first paragraph of this song. How many people know the complete version of this nursery rhyme?

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I want to know what you are.

High above,

Like diamonds in the sky.

When the blazing sun disappears,

When he had nothing,

Then you show your little light,

Twinkle, twinkle, all night.

Then the traveler in the dark

Thank you for your tiny spark;

He couldn't see which way to go,

If you don't blink like this.

In the deep blue sky you keep,

Often peeping through my curtains,

Because you never close your eyes,

Until the sun appeared in the sky.

As your bright and tiny spark

Illuminate travelers in the dark,

Although I don't know what you are,

Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

This complete "Little Star" shows the beauty of language incisively and vividly, especially the rhyme. Write one or two lines neatly in each paragraph, three or four lines in ——AABB style, which is called "rhyme" or "rhyme" Such a beautiful language supplemented by quiet starry sky illustrations, the perfect integration of the two, so that readers seem to be under the bright starry sky, with wonderful songs in their ears.

Of course, not only this little star, but also other nursery rhymes have certain rhythms and rhythms, so that children can read fluently, receive language signals more deeply, perceive English language sense, and thus achieve the purpose of grinding their ears.

Now, let's go over another song in the book and sing a song of sixpence. Let's talk about how to learn English with nursery rhymes.

Nursery rhymes are read like this:

Sing a sixpence song,

A bag of rye bread,

24 blackbirds

Bake it in a pie.

When the pie is opened

Birds began to sing;

Isn't that a delicious dish?

In front of the king?

Step 1: Parents preview.

Parents need to preview before reading nursery rhymes to their children. In addition to some difficult words and sentences, parents also need to understand the content and background information of children's songs according to translation. Why do you mention the background of nursery rhymes is because of the historical particularity of mother goose nursery rhymes. As mentioned before, every nursery rhyme may actually reflect the background of the times, so if children are interested, you can tell them the story behind nursery rhymes, which will make them more impressed. So we still encourage parents who are interested and have enough time to "investigate" the background of nursery rhymes.

Singing a sixpence song has a long historical background, and there are various interpretations of the background story of this nursery rhyme. The most popular interpretation version is this:

It is said that one of people's usual entertainment activities in the16th century was to put firebirds in pies and make a delicious dessert! When an important guest, such as the king, comes home, the most exciting moment is that the guest cuts the pie, and everyone watches the bird fly out of the pie, covered in flour and floating in front of everyone. Parents and children imagine that when all the guests sit down and put on napkins, then birds fly out of the pie one by one. Children will definitely have great interest in this incredible picture, and then they will ask all kinds of questions.

I also noticed this problem when planning the reading guide. The basic selection of 10 nursery rhymes tells the history and background of nursery rhymes.

Step 2: Parent-child reading

Parents can read children's songs together after they are familiar with them. In the initial reading, we encourage parents to read aloud to their children instead of listening to audio, because children are unfamiliar with nursery rhymes and generally don't want to listen. Compared with audio, parents' reading has a temperature, and the process is easier to control. So, no matter how your parents pronounce it, please find out the words you don't know and read them to your children. The length of nursery rhymes is generally not long, so reading nursery rhymes is relatively less difficult than reading a longer story book.

For babies under 3 years old, the role of nursery rhymes is reflected in a lot of extensive listening and grinding ears, so the significance of nursery rhymes can be ignored to some extent. Children of this age have absorbed the unique rhythm of English from nursery rhymes, and their familiarity with English pronunciation has enhanced their ability to listen and distinguish sounds.

For children over 3 years old, especially children over 4 years old, in addition to extensive listening, we should also combine illustrations and nursery rhymes to let children know the general meaning of nursery rhymes. Then the process of parent-child reading will be more abundant: you can ask some simple English questions according to the illustrations and guide your children to play their imagination. Of course, you shouldn't force children to answer questions in English, or it doesn't matter if they look at pictures in Chinese first according to their English level, but you should also guide children to answer in English. This has greatly developed the relevant value of a nursery rhyme. For example, what animals are there in the picture? Or how many birds are there in the picture? Wait for questions. What animal? How many birds?

If it is intensive reading, it is recommended to tell only one nursery rhyme every day. In fact, there are not many rehearsals, so don't be afraid and don't have too much pressure. However, a large number of nursery rhymes should become children's daily listening habits. They can arrange nursery rhymes according to three meals and learn to use their spare time to input English to their children at will.

Step 3: Listen to pure English audio.

After the parent-child reading, we will enter the audio listening session.

(Play Audio 2. Sing a sixpence song)

Many parents worry that their poor pronunciation will affect their children. In fact, as long as the proportion of reading English to children and listening to pure foreign teacher audio is balanced, there is no need to worry at all. Therefore, it is very important to provide audio for English enlightenment materials. Parents * * * read children's familiar children's songs, and children will naturally accept pure audio from foreign teachers, and English input that can be understood is effective input. Accumulated to a certain extent, it will naturally blossom and bear fruit. The waiting process may be short or long, and both parents need enough patience to accompany their children to grow up together.

Step 4: Learn and use keywords flexibly.

Back to intensive reading of children's songs, several words in this children's song are rare, so teaching words can't be separated from the environment at all, so we need to use example sentences to help children understand the meaning and usage of words, and scene collocation plus repeated use is a weapon to learn English. For example:

The meaning of "exquisite" in nursery rhymes is equivalent to "delicious", which means "delicious and exquisite".

When you say this word, the first step is of course to use the ready-made sentences in nursery rhymes to make children understand. Secondly, we can look up more examples in the dictionary.

After dinner, we had delicious ice cream for dessert.

After that, when you eat anything delicious, you can substitute delicious food for delicious food. Is it more advanced?

Step 5: Play children's songs.

Furthermore, children can play games with nursery rhymes, which requires children to be familiar with nursery rhymes and have certain requirements for their English level.

①? The name of this nursery rhyme is "Sing a sixpence song". Parents guide their children to discover the uniqueness of this song title-all three subject words begin with the letter "S". This is a good opportunity for children to learn the letter S and its pronunciation. For example, let children say a series of words starting with "S" and compete with their parents. If their level is good, they can also be encouraged to make sentences with these words and see if more words starting with "S" can be put in each sentence.

Every nursery rhyme has its special place, which is why it can be circulated for a hundred years. Therefore, as long as witty parents use sharp eyes to find out, they can always come up with many games to play with their children at home. This process is really a rare parent-child time.

①? Another feature of this nursery rhyme is that there are several numbers. Look for it with your children and make a card. Write Arabic numerals and English numerals at the same time. Parents play reading audio or read aloud for their children. When children hear the numbers, they immediately find the digital card and say the numbers in English. When they say the numbers, they can make certain actions. For example, when they hear six, the children will find the card of six and jump on one foot six times. Parents continue to read the lyrics. When they hear four tones, the child finds the card and does four sit-ups.

Such parent-child games not only make children familiar with the lyrics, but also practice listening, master numbers and exercise by listening to the target digital words, which is closer to the parent-child relationship.

I wonder if you have noticed that we can "play" many nursery rhymes by changing the words on the cards. This is the purpose of the reading guide of this book. It is of universal value to select ten nursery rhymes for intensive reading guidance.

In this way, we have finished reading a nursery rhyme so carefully, but don't think we can put down our books and sleep. We can read it with our children every once in a while, and deepen our impressions into unforgettable things again and again.

The above is about reading a nursery rhyme, and we usually suggest using these five steps to read a nursery rhyme intensively. However, according to the different characteristics of different nursery rhymes, the gameplay is also different. Parents should learn to discover the different characteristics of different nursery rhymes and make corresponding game designs for all kinds of nursery rhymes.

For example, in the book "Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes", we concluded that there are several types of nursery rhymes:

l？ Nursery rhymes before bed, represented by Rock-a-Bye and Baby; ;

l？ Nursery rhymes of game activities, represented by rose rings; ;

l？ Digital nursery rhymes, representing one, two, buckle my shoes; ;

l？ Tongue twister nursery rhymes, represented by Peter Piper Cejpek; ;

l？ Letter nursery rhymes, represented by one who is an fisherman; ;

l？ Animal nursery rhymes, represented by Bow-Wow, represent dogs;

l？ Story nursery rhymes, represented by three kittens, they lost their gloves.

……

We will play different kinds of nursery rhymes in different ways.

For example, nursery rhymes before going to bed, of course, we suggest parents hum them to their children when putting them to bed. Some parents are very afraid to sing English songs to their children. First, I'm afraid that I'm tone deaf, and second, I'm afraid that my English pronunciation is not good. In fact, gently humming a lullaby to children is an excellent opportunity to warm the parent-child time. At this time, it would be great if you could hum English songs to your children. Children don't care whether you do it or not. Whether your English pronunciation is standard or not is not the most important thing in the eyes of children. At this time, English lullabies give children a habit of sleeping, a warm family atmosphere, and also enlighten their English pronunciation and intonation, which is a good thing to kill two birds with one stone.

Look at nursery rhymes and rock in detail. Bye, baby. Its history can be traced back to1the early 8th century. For more than 200 years, this nursery rhyme has become the oldest classic lullaby. So mom and dad must learn to sing, our CD is equipped with an unaccompanied version of foreign teachers, which will be very easy to learn!

This nursery rhyme not only has the attribute of lullaby, but also has the most important attribute that all nursery rhymes can't lack. Yes, it rhymes. In this nursery rhyme, there are three important rhyming words, green/queen, ring/king, baby/lady. Consciously inducing the rhyming part, that is, the root, will help children remember more words and let them know the concept of rhyme. We can even let children make up rhyming words at will, even if it doesn't make any sense. Our aim is to let children experience the feeling of rhyme and deeply understand the meaning of rhyme.

Here is a game of rhyming words that is the easiest to play in the family: Mom and Dad write a group of words on paper (usually at the beginning, we only list three words), and there are 1 words that don't rhyme. If children have a certain foundation in English, they can read these three words by themselves and ask them to read them themselves to find out the words that don't rhyme. If children don't know these words, they will be asked to do them themselves. When children become more and more proficient, they can increase a group of words to five, which makes it more difficult. The difficulty setting of all games depends on the child's own English level.

Next, let's look at the nursery rhymes of game activities. The most typical song is the Ring of Roses.

The background of this ballad is actually not so beautiful. This song actually describes the full-scale outbreak of the plague in London in 1665, but after hundreds of years, people have probably forgotten the dark history behind the poem and evolved into a happy children's collective game. So matching this ballad is the best choice for children's outdoor games and activities.

As shown in the picture, we can let the children form a circle hand in hand, while singing nursery rhymes, while rotating clockwise, and let the children pretend to sneeze when singing "ashes, ashes" and pretend to fall to the ground when singing "we all fell". This game doesn't need any props, just children and parents together. Sometimes children's happiness is simple. Children can quickly remember the lyrics of nursery rhymes in happy games.

Let's talk about a very special type of nursery rhymes-tongue twister nursery rhymes, such as Peter Piper picked a peck in our book.

In this nursery rhyme, all kinds of P sounds make you dizzy.

It is suggested that mom and dad challenge themselves first to see if they can read it all at once.

We have seen a lot of Chinese tongue twisters, but English tongue twisters are rare as China people, which is a particularly interesting point in itself.

As a tongue twister, there must be a certain pronunciation or the pronunciation of some details appears repeatedly, which makes the tongue twister have a key pronunciation that children need to feel. For example, the letter P in this nursery rhyme is repeatedly input to children. Listen to the audio first, listen to the parents read aloud, and let the children feel the characteristics of P pronunciation in the process of listening. Because it is easy to make mistakes, the process of reading aloud is full of jokes, so don't worry about children not listening. After the whole game, the child will definitely remember the pronunciation of P.

If the child has a certain foundation, you can also try to let the child follow, which of course adds another layer of difficulty.

Interestingly, the translation of this nursery rhyme in Chinese version is very clever, which means Chinese tongue twister. After challenging English tongue twisters, let's read Chinese tongue twisters together. At this time, you will definitely feel tongue twister. Chinese translation is like this:

Finally, talk about story-based nursery rhymes.

What is a story nursery rhyme? In fact, a nursery rhyme tells a complete story, with a cause and effect and a complete beginning and end.

This kind of nursery rhymes should be the easiest for children to sit down and listen to, because there are storylines, so in the face of such nursery rhymes, parents must learn to make good use of the connection of stories and the suspense of stories to arouse children's sustained interest in nursery rhymes.

Let's take a look at this masterpiece of nursery rhymes: three kittens lost their gloves.

This is the story of three kittens losing their gloves. Are you familiar with it?

The whole nursery rhyme is mainly composed of complete descriptive sentences, with no special emphasis on rhyme, but it has its own sense of rhythm when read.

Because of the richness of the plot, parents had better read aloud in combination with nursery rhymes. For example, when reading "They Began to Cry", they can cry and read what! Losing gloves, you naughty kittens will bring surprise, dissatisfaction and severity to your mother ... With emotional expression and reading, children can pay more attention to the language in nursery rhymes.

In addition, because this nursery rhyme is very similar to a child's life, will there be a situation in everyone's life where a child is punished by his parents for losing something because of disobedience? So many words in this nursery rhyme can be applied to life, for example, what to apply! Lose your gloves, you naughty kitten, what can we say! Lose your bag, you naughty boy! Or, when we give our children what they like, we can use the sentence "Oh, let's have some pie", for example, let's have some candy! It can be said that, let's eat some candy!

In fact, every original nursery rhyme or picture book is our chance to get in touch with authentic English. These books let us intuitively see that foreigners speak like this. Interested parents should learn to graft these sentences into real life, say more and use more, so as to get deep into their children's hearts. If they just read and forget after reading, the effect will not be very good.

Finally, I will tell you a familiar nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty as the ending song to share today.

How to read this nursery rhyme?

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall.

Humpty Dumpty had a big fall.

All the king's horses, all the king's men (even if the king is powerful)

Can't put the egg head back together.

Let me give you a brief introduction first. Humpty Dumpty is a famous chubby egg in Europe and America. Can be seen everywhere.

The sculpture sitting in the street is it.

The wall was painted with it.

Flying into the sky is a hot air balloon.

Even the children's favorite cookies and cakes are short and fat!

Humpty Dumpty means big fat egg, but it's just a name, like "Every day, Angela, sweet". When babies grow up, they have no chance to use this word in their daily life. On the contrary, babies will be exposed to these words in nursery rhymes:

L ma [h? Rs] horse

l King [k？ king

Fall [f? Fall down

l？ Wall [w? L] wall

Finally, let the children feel the truest Humpty Dumpty, because it is very mechanical to think about listening to the standard slow when they were young. After going abroad, I found that everyone has a different accent and a different speech speed. I just want to give the children a feeling early. The following video is the recitation and singing of the street performers we invited to Chicago, USA. Very exciting. Don't miss it!

Please read it carefully. These nursery rhymes are magical and pleasant, sometimes absurd and sometimes wise, full of love language, rhythm and stories. Let children get familiar with the structure and pronunciation of English language from listening to nursery rhymes, read aloud after reading, master all kinds of rhymes of English nursery rhymes in repeated imitation, and cultivate a wonderful sense of English language.

End today's sharing with a little poem at the beginning of this book:

Be careful with the aging of these little books.

Don't fold or tear the pages,

Treat it as carefully as possible,

Because this book belongs to me.

One page of this little book is old.

Do not fold or tear.

Please handle with care.

This little book belongs to me.

Today's story ends here. Thank you for your participation [Rose]