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My son is four and a half years old. We started to contact RAZ at the end of 2019. My son just started reading several aa-rated books and thought it was a little simple, so we skipped aa-rated books and started the RAZ journey directly from A.
From December last year to now, from the age of three and a half to four and a half, we have spent one year brushing eight grades A to H of RAZ. At present, I is in progress. At the current rate of one book a day, it is expected to end in more than two months. During reading RAZ, we read and listened; There is a storm and a pause; There is emphasis and paddling. Each stage of the brush method combines the different state and level of the baby at that time, and each stage is matched with many story grades like Oxford Tree and other popular science books.
In this way, after reading RAZ for a year, my son can now listen to English bridges, first chapters and repeat long sentences. Today, what I want to share is the phased approach, book list, experience and experience of reading RAZ I (Grade 10) and reading the first chapter book in one year.
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Our trip to RAZ is divided into seven stages, and I will share them below.
First, before reading RAZ: evaluate the degree of the baby, locate the role of RAZ, and prepare.
Before the son brushes RAZ, the foundation is:
English listening and speaking, almost no;
Can read and recognize words quickly;
Love to scribble and copy.
In the process of English enlightenment with my son, my orientation of RAZ is: preschool as a side dish.
This positioning is not clear from the beginning, but gradually thought clearly during the upgrade process. The main reason is that RAZ system is huge, with a wide range of contents and more exercises (not only quiz reading test), but my baby is still young, and her cognition, memory and understanding can’t reach, and I don’t want to push and pull hard. Adults are tired of children, and improper operation can easily affect the parent-child relationship, which is not worth the loss. It is really unnecessary.
Before RAZ, I took my son to read these English books:
1. The Oxford Tree Family Edition (1-3) seems to have read several books from 4 to 6.
Example of Content Difficulty of Oxford Tree Home Edition 3
2. "Oriental Doll Picture Book English", read seven or eight books.
3. All aboard reading initial order.
All aboard reading First Level Content Difficulty Example
4. Step into Reading initial order.
Step into Reading first-order content difficulty example
4. Other English resources we used before our son read RAZ.
Cartoon Cars
Rainbow rabbit sings nursery rhymes.
Cover and Content Display of rainbow rabbit Singing Nursery Rhymes: The First Order
Child’s Play Cave Book Ballad
Pencil Sharpener
That’s probably all. At that time, I didn’t find out the way, but I was still groping for ways and guiding my interest.
Here I have to mention "Oriental Doll Picture Book English", which is not the original book, and the quality of the supporting video is quite touching, but it really laid the foundation for my son to listen, speak and read. Each publication is not only equipped with theme animation, but also teaches rhythmic exercises, pronunciation essentials and pronunciation rules.
At that time, I still used CD-ROM, which always caused problems and often asked sellers for resources. If I remember correctly, I should be able to scan the code from the 2020 issue, which is very convenient. Here is also my personal feeling. Many parents don’t want the original version when they are enlightened. In fact, it is not necessary. Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, catching a mouse is a good cat.
Let’s talk about how we brushed RAZ all the way up.
Second, RAZ reading stage: A, B and C levels.
When I bought the paper version of RAZ, the seller happened to be having a sale on some reading pens, which cost about 60 yuan, so I bought it because it was cheap. In the stages of A, B and C, it is basically a point reading pen. After reading, my son has no understanding problems, even if he passes. I can’t remember whether I followed it or not. I didn’t ask for it. I guess I followed it. My baby loves to follow it.
We read the rounds of Raz A, B and C, as well as the time record:
The first round of Grade A: December 19th to January 24th.
Level B first round: January 27th to February 7th.
A, B second round: February 8 to February 24.
The third round of class A and B: starting on March 7th.
The first round of Class C: starting on March 15th.
Basically, click it once, and talk about new words that the baby doesn’t quite understand, in Chinese. I don’t reject explaining foreign languages in my mother tongue, and I don’t object to translation. What a good bridge translation is, bridging the mother tongue and foreign languages, realizing the differences between different languages, helping to think and deepen understanding. Why are so many people so resistant to translation? There is a saying that it is necessary to shape English mother tongue thinking, and I am afraid that Chinese will affect the formation of English thinking. I have reservations about this.
While reading Raz A, B and C, we have the following reading packages:
1. Oxford Tree Extended Reading (school edition) and caterpillar point reading pen.
Caterpillar point reading pen
2. "Babyall number science" and the little monster reading pen.
Little monster point reading pen
3. "Children’s English Graded Reading Preparatory Level"
This set of books is particularly simple, with animation, slow sentences and phrases, and easy to read by scanning codes.
An Example of Content Difficulty of Children’s English Graded Reading Preparatory Level
4. National Geographic Preparatory Stage
Example of Content Difficulty of National Geographic Preparatory Stage
5. hyneman GK scattered several books.
6. Sweetheart, Shiny, Jam, Duoduo English and other flip-flop books and blackboard books are all borrowed online.
7. It seems that Pearson Preparatory Level was read again at this time and borrowed online.
The most important one is the Oxford Tree, and the classification we have never broken is the Oxford Tree.
Babyall, ranked second, is on the schedule. This set of books is very interesting, and all kinds of sound effects are quite good. I don’t know why children just like to shit. This set of books is very popular, and all kinds of organs and parts are very popular with her. What impressed me the most was the change of the three primary colors. The colors of several plastic sheets changed as soon as they overlapped, which was very intuitive.
Going back to RAZ, A, B and C, the three levels are brushed together. After brushing the higher level, the lower level is rolled, and it may take two or three times to go back and forth.
At that time, I was always puzzled: the child didn’t master it clearly and didn’t understand the words. Do you want to upgrade? I think this problem needs to be analyzed in detail.
My son was three years old at that time, and soon after, if words were emphasized, it would be easy to dispel the baby’s patience and confidence. It’s better to read one by one. At the first level, there is no need to linger at the lower level.
Anyway, the span between low levels is not very big, and crossing a level can bring freshness and self-confidence to the baby.
Besides, many words will appear repeatedly in the spiral design, and they will be familiar with each other once and again, and gradually they will know more. However, if you are a child or need to improve your grades in the short term, the role of this method is limited, so it is better to memorize and write it down.
Third, RAZ self-reading stage: D, E, F.
As mentioned earlier, my son can recognize words quickly. In addition, in the video of Oriental Doll Picture Book English, he talked about simple pronunciation rules. At the latest, he asked to turn off the reading pen and read aloud by himself.
At first, I didn’t agree. After all, the point-reading pen can read accurately, and I want him to listen more accurately. But my arm couldn’t twist my thigh. Finally, I surrendered, turned off the point reading pen and let the baby read by herself.
We read the rounds of Raz D, E and F, as well as the time record:
Level D first round: March 17th to April 3rd.
E-level first round: March 29th to April 13th.
The first round of class F: starting on April 3rd.
My son reads fluently, which is an advantage, but also a problem-there is no listening comprehension, which leads to reading first.
But I can’t force the baby to listen. At that time, it was the critical period of cultivating listening interest. He had turned from resisting listening to English in October last year to accepting background sounds. This is a big change. I can’t rush it.
Read it, it’s not bad to be able to read. At that time, I was only a little over three and a half years old, so I don’t need a bike first!
So basically, most of the stages D, E and F are read by my son himself. After reading it, even if there is no big problem in understanding, the high level will scroll the low level in the same way as A, B and C.
When my son brushed Raz D, E and F, I also learned some new things. For example, I forgot which book in the F grade had such a sentence: "there is a nip in the air", which I didn’t know before, and I learned it with the baby.
When my son read Raz D, E and F independently, we matched the following reading packages:
1. The Oxford Tree, which remains unchanged for ten thousand years (actually the main one), expands reading.
2. Little Fox Graded Cartoon Tire Town School
3. Cartoon Peppa Pig
4. The cartoon "Monkey Repairman"
5. cartoon Number Blocks
6. cartoon Numtums
Tire Town School, I would like to call it the most important cartoon on my children’s English learning road, which is more important than Peppa Pig. This cartoon helped Eva accumulate listening vocabulary, and many basic expressions were exposed from this cartoon. In order to deepen my impression and give full play to the advantages of children’s literacy, I printed out the pdf of this cartoon for children to read, and the effect was very good.
The problem at this stage is that my son’s cognition can’t keep up, and this shortcoming will be widely exposed at RAZ G level.
Fourth, RAZ explanation stage: G
Finally, I came to the stage of comprehensive explanation, and I remember the mummy most clearly!
The first few levels are not very different in terms of language difficulty or knowledge background, or I don’t feel very different from Eva. So I can brush and roll and go back and forth at those levels.
However, RAZ G-level cognition is slowly developing towards the gap, and many things are very difficult to talk about. Let’s talk about the "mummy". Do you really want to break it and make it clear that children are not allowed to have nightmares?
Let’s call it a day, just talk about it. I forgot the start time, and the round ended on April 16th, and then it was a roller coaster until May 20th.
At this stage, there are more than a dozen local brushes every day, and there is plenty of time to hit the epidemic. I remember it was fixed in the later period, with 13 new books and 2 old books every day, which also drove the rolling wheels continuously. Make it clear that the literal meaning is the next one, and the baby understands that it is a bit confusing to ignore it. It is precisely because of cognitive reasons that G has become the most unsound first-class book in the past. I didn’t read it, didn’t read it myself, and talked about it once, all of which were superficial.
The effect is also there, because RAZ is not the only resource.
While taking our son to read RAZ G, we have the following reading packages:
1. Needless to say, The Oxford Tree expands reading.
2. "Little Potato Who Loves Singing" audio.
Speaking of singing, I listened to Super Simple Songs by the way.
4. Little fox graded cartoon Dino Bodies
5. bridge book Fly Guy
Fly Guy’s audio is great, highly recommended!
6. bridge book Frog and Toad Are Friends
At that time, my son could not understand the bridge, but he could read it. Many times I need to explain to him, such as "Pulled the covers up all over his head". I just said this sentence while lying in bed and pulled the quilt over my head. Basically, I slowly entered the bridge door in this way.
At that time, I also realized that Eva had completely accepted listening to English audio, and it could be strengthened.
The next stage, the most important stage of RAZ, is coming.
V. RAZ listening stage: H.
In contrast, if G is the least solid level, then H is the most solid level at present. I have followed almost every word and sentence in it. Maybe it is not a follow-up, but a retelling of the original sentence. Because the sentence is too long to keep up, retelling is the accurate statement.
On May 20, 2020, my son began to listen to RAZ H blindly, and on September 3, he listened to the last book for 108 days. It ended earlier than expected, because it was heard faster in the later period and the overall progress was smooth. Below I summed up some key points in the process of taking my son to listen to RAZ H:
1. Material selection
On the premise of the original materials, as long as the difficulty is acceptable and the children do not reject it. I didn’t strictly distinguish between reading text and listening text, so the current level simply can’t reach the level of picking materials. It is enough to have the original audio, and it is enough to listen.
Step 2: Schedule
Initially: 1 book/day, 5 books/week
Mid-term: 1 book/day, 6 books/week
Later period: 1 book/day, 7 books/week.
Finally: 2 books/day until listening.
Time required to listen to an article: it takes about 30-40 minutes to finish an article at first, and it takes more than 40 minutes for the difficult one; Later, all the progress was made slowly, and it was shortened to 15 minutes.
3. Ways and means
All the materials are listened to blindly, a few of them need to look at pictures to help them understand, and most of them listen without looking at words or pictures. After listening, repeat the whole sentence completely from the first word to the last word. You can’t change words, miss words or make mistakes. Listen and speak again if there are any mistakes until the statement is completely correct.
4. Key and difficult points
The emphasis is on repeating long sentences word by word, and the difficulty lies in new words and cognition.
At present, there has been a breakthrough in key issues, and the shortening of the later period also illustrates this problem. The mastery of new words varies according to the exposure rate, and the cognition is not strong. The political and historical aspects are practical and stop. Animals and plants will expand slightly, which is related to children’s interests and basic knowledge.
5. Daily review
In the dialogue, I will mix some complicated sentences with my son to deepen my impression.
Sometimes the sentences I heard the day before will specially remind my baby to repeat them.
Choose the content with moderate and fast speech speed from the books you have heard and divide it into 8 groups, and scroll and listen widely.
Step 6 make slow progress
When I first entered Little Peanut, I was caught in the late stage of anxiety disorder by an article full of "from zero foundation to the first chapter in * months", "4,000+vocabulary at the age of four", "barrier-free oral communication at the age of three" and "simultaneous output of Chinese and English at the age of two". Later, I forced myself to open my mind, and my mind was flat.
I invest little in English every day, regardless of mother tongue acquisition or dual mother tongue, as long as today is better than yesterday. In that case, why worry? With different goals, it is meaningless to measure yourself by other people’s benchmarks. I also know that the progress of this 108-day baby is just a breakthrough in long and difficult sentences and a little sense of language. Cognition and understanding will definitely not be achieved, and I don’t want him to achieve it. But there is no denying that this is progress, though slowly.
The process of listening and after listening, the baby has a sense of accomplishment. At that time, in September, Eva was about to start school. This month, I asked my son to listen to novels casually and relax. We will wait until after the National Day.
Let’s take the single book in RAZ as an example to talk about the details of our listening and reading:
The first A Desert Counting Book is particularly simple. It tells what a puppy saw in the desert, in numerical order.
My baby loves numbers, so this book goes very smoothly.
The most difficult book, Abigail Adams, is about the wife of the President of the United States.
It’s still the same question that I just said, but I can’t keep up with it. The content is very strange, the sentence is very long, and there are new words. My method at that time was to write all the words in a sentence on the card. After listening to that sentence, let the baby pick the words he heard in the card, then arrange them in the order he heard them, and then try to repeat them by himself until he said them.
In the next few days, I have been posting those cards on the whiteboard. When I have nothing to do, I will take a look and slowly drive my listening through literacy advantages. After eating that book, the back steps slowed down.
The most pedunculated one, Legs Wings,Fins,and Flippers, was turned out a few days ago.
There is a saying in this book, "fish use their fins and tails to move through the water". When I talked about fins, I couldn’t remember what was behind and, so I pointed to my ass and learned to swim like a fish. My baby said with an epiphany, "hips!" ….. Laughed for a long time, often mentioned.
Son, at the stage of reading RAZ H, our reading collocation:
1. The Oxford Tree must be expanded to read.
2. bridge book Nate The Great
Highly recommended! Short sentences, few words, interesting and concise language.
3. The first level of rainbow rabbit Graded Story House (actually the first library)
4. Little Fox cartoon audio Lemonade Detectives
5. Little fox cartoon audio Journey to The West
6. Let’s Read and Find Out Science 1 (that is, "subject 1")
7. I Can Read 2 part of the bridge
8. Wordly Wise, Grade 2 (also known as 3000 words)
9. Saz GK also listened to several books.
At this stage, the baby took the initiative to read some books, and later all of them were stopped for eyesight. However, after G-level and H-level were not solid, RAZ also came to the small end of cognition. Both the baby and I showed fatigue, so it naturally entered the RAZ pause period.
Six, RAZ pause stage: hearing the first chapter from the bridge
After listening to H, in order to have a good rest, and also to stroke the arrangement behind, I started the listening plan of Bridge Book after consulting with Wa.
However … The road didn’t work out. My idea is to let the baby say one sentence after hearing it, just like H, but it turns out that I was careless. At first, I let the baby listen to a new book, and every sentence is ok. Later, listening to Nate the Great was wrong.
I broadcast a sentence on the audio, and the baby can say it together with the next two or three sentences. Because he is familiar with it, he is also familiar with the background sound … Based on this situation, Nate the Great’s sentence-by-sentence listening mode came to an end after listening to the first book.
As a result, I found a set of difficult first chapters for my baby, A to Z Mysteries.
In the same way, listen and say one sentence, make clear what you don’t understand, act and act, and every word and sentence you don’t understand will be explained clearly in Chinese.
In this way, I spent a month listening to The Absent Auther, and this book became the second listening mountain that my baby has climbed since Raz H.
Reading collocation at the stage when my son heard the first chapter from the bridge;
1. The eternal king "Oxford Tree" expands reading.
2. Nate the Great background sound
3. Frog and toad series background sound
4. RAZ H background sound
5. Peppa Pig background sound
6. Go wild Children’s Natural Science Series 1
7. I can read level 2 bridge book
8. One Story A Day background sound, this set is basically thirty stories a day.
After listening to The Absent Auther, I tried to access the Horrid Henrry chapter book. The first one went well, but the second one failed, so I decisively changed to a bridge.
Before RAZ I, I had formed the habit of listening to English for 30 minutes every day with Eva. We allocated these 30 minutes to different levels and types of audio:
Bridge 10 minutes (in line with the current level)
The first chapter is 10 minutes (elevation)
Fiction nonfiction 10 minutes (popular science)
At present, the listening collocation is: bridge Horrid Henry+initial chapter Boxcar Children+ non-fiction "subject one subject two".
It is reasonable to say that the first chapter is more difficult than the bridge, but the actual situation is that Boxcar Children sounds simpler than Horrid Henry. It may be because of the different British and American accents, or it may be influenced by sound effects.
Generally speaking, this collocation is quite suitable for my baby, and I should practice listening in this way for a long time to come.
Seven, RAZ current stage: I
One day after I got into the habit of listening for 30 minutes, I tried to find an I-level book for my baby, and found the difficulty acceptable and understandable.
But the problem is that there is no time. It will be 5: 30 when I get home from school in the afternoon. Half an hour of English listening is enough. I can’t encroach on the baby’s playing time, let alone think about sleeping time! Therefore, RAZ I has become the most neglected level-it has officially become a bedtime story.
There is no point reading pen, no self-reading, no sentence-by-sentence listening, no retelling … I just mix in a few books unremarkably every night and wait for me to read them to Eva. That’s not accurate. I didn’t even buy a paper version. I read an electronic version … every night, and I read a bedtime story.
After the early accumulation, the number of new words in Grade I is not large, the difficulty is not great, it is easy to understand, the space is short, and it is expected to be brushed smoothly.
Son, listen to me read the cooperation books in RAZ I stage:
1. The Oxford Tree expands reading.
2. Horrid Henry Bridge Edition Audio.
3. Boxcar Children audio.
4. "One subject, two subjects" audio.
5. 48 copies of Red Rocket in green
6. RAZ H is also a bedtime story every day.
At this time, the baby has completed the transformation from "reading to listening" to "listening to reading", and even some words I can’t hear, he can.
Eight, about the quiz reading test and whether the baby understands it.
One year, during which I read and listened; There is a storm and a pause; There are emphasis and paddling. Generally speaking, the brushing method at each stage combines the different States and levels of the baby at that time. But one thing hasn’t changed: don’t be quiz.
I didn’t do quiz at first because I didn’t know RAZ had quiz! It’s not too late when I know, it was the C-level stage. But I still didn’t do it, because I didn’t know the words in quiz, and I couldn’t read the questions … Later, I still didn’t let her do it, mainly because of the positioning of RAZ mentioned at the beginning: preschool is a side dish.
Since it is a side dish, of course, the investment in time and energy is slightly inferior, at least for now. It is also very important that RAZ’s quiz is not suitable for my three or four-year-old baby.
I know that there are children who brush RAZ carefully at the age of one, and I have also heard of Niu Wa who can understand the content at the age of three when she brushes G, and the miracle child who can hear P when she is less than four years old. I have also met parents who take quiz as the criterion and refuse to upgrade.
My understanding of these phenomena is: no matter what others are like, what is suitable for their children is good. Just suit his level, his age and his characteristics.
Although we don’t do quiz now, when my son goes to school, we need to do it at a high level.
So if you don’t do quiz, how can you ensure that the baby understands? My method is to chat. He can tell a thing or two about everything that Eva understands. Isn’t this a good opportunity to guide and output? Whether in English or Chinese, as long as he can express his understanding, right or wrong, it is something to be encouraged.
What if you really can’t understand it? Leave it here, and we’ll talk about it later. You can look at something else, expand at the same level, and grade tens of millions. You don’t have to catch RAZ.
Write at the end: Compare my son’s English reading a year ago and now, and think that Wa was still a small class doll with hearing loss when he brushed RAZ A last year. Recently, this phenomenon often occurs when I listen to English with Wa: He understood and said it, but I didn’t understand or heard it wrong …
Compared with a year ago, Eva can now:
Listen to the bridge and the first chapter, and repeat the long sentence: "This is because the weather conditions here is just right and there is many different kinds of trees";
Can output short sentences independently: "my hand’s getting damp"；;
I also independently output complex sentences: "I think the t-rex will eat the shoe that wilfhad dropped".
Understanding has also increased a lot, and many things can be understood and clearly stated. These are all thanks to RAZ-really?
Of course not! This is not the result of RAZ’s grading, but the little progress accumulated by the baby’s growing age, increased experience, understanding, memory and timely adjustment plan, the collocation of different resources and unremitting efforts. Therefore, after I’m finished, I will still match the audio and reading materials with different contents and difficulties according to the level of the baby, and the principle of taking time, place and conditions as the transfer will not change.
RAZ is a good set of grading, but it is not the only grading. If the child doesn’t like it, switch to something else or match it with something else. If it is difficult, expand or pause at the same level. A set of grading of more than 2,000 books can’t be brushed smoothly in any way. There will always be steps, tiredness and unwillingness to brush. You can use it as a main course or as a side dish. It’s good to hurry up or slow down.
Again, whether it’s a black cat or a white cat, catching a mouse is a good cat.
Original title: "Take a 4-year-old son to" climb "to RAZ level 10 in one year and share our staged listening and reading strategies"
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