What are the advantages and disadvantages of finger reading?

The advantage of finger reading is that it can better help children remember. Compared with other teaching methods, finger reading can well mobilize children's physical and mental activities, help children better realize their memory, and make children pay more attention and remember better. The perfect combination of hands, feet, mouth and brain allows children to perceive words more deeply and learn knowledge faster.

The disadvantage of finger reading is that for kindergarten and first-grade children, finger reading can help them concentrate their limited attention, cultivate the ability of hand-eye coordination, and make literacy twice the result with half the effort. However, with the increase of children's age and literacy, finger reading should be gradually abandoned. Because it will seriously affect the reading experience and reading speed-eye scanning is always faster than finger movement.

For children aged 3 and before, it is not advisable to read picture books with fingers. Fingers sliding on picture books will inevitably shift children's attention from pictures to specific words one by one, and children will ignore the overall feeling of pictures and reduce the interest of picture books, thus affecting their perception of story pictures and emotions.

In the long run, it may even affect children's interest in reading itself-this is what we are most afraid of.