According to the 2017 survey report on children’s reading in China’s urban areas, parents, teachers and peers are the three most important types of people to develop children’s reading habits, with parents in the first place. The more parents attach importance to parent-child reading, the more frequently parent-child reading develops, the more preschool children like reading. The more parents read, the more likely they are to buy and store more books for their children, and the more they read. In order to better play the leading role of parents in reading, WUIS specially set up a “XIE HE Parents Reading Stars” this semester.
“XIE HE Parents Reading Stars” has a profound meaning. It represents the concerted efforts of the cooperators to lead children’s reading. We take it as our unswerving mission to promote children’s reading with adult power.
To improve children’s reading ability is to improve their understanding and learning ability. Professor Zhu Yong xin once said that a person’s reading history is a person’s spiritual growth history. For the sake of spiritual life and healthy life, we hope to lead children’s reading. Reading can bring children a lot of wealth, empathy, imagination, expression, thinking, writing skills will be imperceptibly developed.
“XIE HE Parents Reading Stars” is held every month to meet with the parents of WUIS in the form of theme lectures and picture book interpretation. There are 4 training sessions per semester and 8 training sessions in the whole year. The theme of each training will refer to the festival activities and so on, and link with the students’ real life. For example, when the Mid Autumn Festival comes, parents recommend picture books with the theme of the moon for their children. In the follow-up activities, we either focus on writers or focus on different types of texts, hoping to bring children unforgettable reading experience through diversified and rich changes. We hope that through the recommendations of parents, reading a book can drive the reading of a series of books, and the example of adults will inspire young readers.
WUIS has a group of parents who love reading. From the beginning of preparation for the activity till now, more than 100 parents have participated in the activity, and 38 parents have attended the first training. On the day of the activity, principal Lin Xu made a speech at the opening ceremony. After that, assistant principal Ms Ella led a special lecture and picture book analysis activity for parents, and presented how to read picture books for children. The activity has also been strongly supported by the Chinese teachers and librarians. They actively provide suggestions for the activity, and also actively provide support and help for parents.
Parents of storytelling activities are very popular for the first time. The detailed list is as follows. We strongly suggest that we give warm applause to these parents for their willingness to contribute their strength to promote children’s reading, and to fill children’s childhood memory with wonderful stories.
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Here, you have the opportunity to learn about picture books;

Here, you have the opportunity to read the classic picture books;

Here, you have the opportunity to meet parents who love and enjoy reading;

Here, you have a chance to feel the charm of reading;.
Finally, we wish that the“XIE HE Parents Reading Stars” will be better and better, never forget the original intention, warm children with stories and be happy with themselves! If you are interested in participating, please scan the QR code below to join us!

29/09/2020 School News