Characteristics of picture book stories

(1) Picture books conform to children's thinking characteristics and can stimulate children's interest in reading. Parents usually think that reading can make children know more words, increase more knowledge, make children better adapt to text reading and get good grades in school. This idea is understandable, but in the lower grades of primary school, as teachers and parents, the first thing to consider is how to attract children's attention to reading, how to cultivate children's interest and habits in reading, and how to make children love reading and read happily. Traditional dogmatic text reading rigidifies teaching methods and widens the distance between books and children. But picture books make children feel the fun of reading. In the history of human development, the picture language is even earlier than the written language, more intuitive than the written symbols, and the expression system is more in line with the characteristics of children's imaginative thinking. Because in the lower stage of primary school, children's thinking is a vivid and figurative thinking, while picture books are mainly painting, with few words but rich pictures. Painting conveys stories, which can stimulate children's interest more than ordinary pure words, and is more in line with the characteristics and habits of children's early reading. In picture books, children's literature writers skillfully cover the theme by using words that children can interpret and familiar sentence structures, and gather into stories with complete structure and rich content. With the help of rich pictures, children feel easier when reading words. Children absorb, stir and transform various viewpoints through intuitive picture book content, thus invisibly cultivating superb Chinese reading ability and prompting them to actively transition to pure text reading.

(2) Picture books are exquisite and rich in connotation, which can cultivate children's beauty. Most of them are the works of world famous illustrators. They use a variety of techniques, or watercolor, or newspaper clippings, to create a story, so that children can enjoy literature and infect aesthetics while reading. A good picture book not only draws beautifully, but also makes readers visually happy with its composition and color. Moreover, each picture has rich connotations, and the pictures can present a unique narrative relationship. In the process of bringing children into beautiful stories, children's emotions are cultivated, and their artistic aesthetic ability is constantly developing, and the improvement of this ability can never be replaced by reading words alone.

(3) Picture books can activate children's imagination, which is conducive to the cultivation of children's creativity. No one is born with a rich imagination. Imagination is acquired through direct and indirect experience. The more experience, the richer imagination, and picture books provide children with opportunities for rich experience. Picture book stories cross national boundaries and various cultural backgrounds. Through words and pictures, children can enter different worlds and expand their creativity infinitely. The picture book will also reserve a lot of imagination space for children, so that children can develop rich associations with stories and design the language and actions of the characters in the book according to the overall artistic conception of the picture book. Some details in the picture will also make children have rich associations and expand and extend the story. A short and pithy picture book is like a wonderful unit drama. Any teacher who likes to get along with children and is willing to get along with them attentively can make use of the advantages of picture books, so that children can integrate into the story situation of picture books with curiosity and excitement under zero pressure, and cultivate their logical thinking, predictive reasoning ability and language ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing through meaningful questioning and guidance.