記錄兒子寫的小故事

這一篇說說兒子寫作的情況。

現(xiàn)在很多家長都知道，英語閱讀需要從小啟蒙。閱讀了之后必定要有輸出，除了流利的口頭交流之外，更重要的是寫一篇英語作文。無論中考高考還是申請美國的大學(xué)，一篇出挑的作文至關(guān)重要。我覺得寫作也需要盡早啟蒙，今天我就先說說我是如何啟蒙兒子“寫”的。

兒子牛小寶4、5歲、開始閱分級讀物時期，突然有一天他開始畫火柴人，再在畫上配一些不成句子的字母。我突然覺得這是一個很好的啟蒙的機會，就一直他繼續(xù)這個小愛好。類似畫畫初期讓孩子盡情涂鴉一樣，我讓牛小寶盡情的“亂寫”。
 

一開始寫的這些，不要說通順了，連完整的單詞都談不上。后來雖然成句了，還是常常出現(xiàn)語法和拼寫錯誤。當(dāng)然為了不打擊他的積極性，我并沒有糾正他，讓他自然“放飛”。漸漸地，他寫的句子越來越多。
 

一年級的時候似乎是他的“創(chuàng)作巔峰”，幾乎每周都會寫一個小故事。他還很喜歡分章，但是基本上第一章就把故事寫完了，偶爾也會寫個第二章。其實故事寫得不怎么樣，結(jié)構(gòu)上、語法上、拼寫上都會有錯誤。我也會也會跟牛小寶分析故事的結(jié)構(gòu)，給他提建議，但是他并不完全領(lǐng)情。雖然牛寶媽有時也會很氣，可是盡量自己深呼吸，對自己說：激發(fā)興趣最重要，激發(fā)興趣最重要。 
 

這個故事整理如下：

Story 1

The Four Balloons on Vacation

Blue, red, and yellow were three balloons that are triplets. One day they were stuck on a tall tree with their Mom Balloon. When it was just the time that they were almost awake---Suddenly , a storm came, and the four balloons started to wiggle...... Then PLOP,PLOP,PLOP,PLOP, the four balloons started to fly. First they reached a skyscraper, then they reached the clouds. At last the were stuck on a plane that leads to U.S.A. So the balloons all agreed to go on a vacation. They stayed on the plane's wing and fell asleep.

The next morning, as they woke up, they were not on the plane's wing any more! They were floating on New York City! They were all excited but a little bit worried, cause how would they get down any way?  Suddenly a plane passed by, and they got stuck on the plane again. Ha,Ha, Ha! It took a few hours until the plane landed and some security guards took the four balloons off and gave them to some kids. One gave to William, the second one gave to his sister, others gave to his Mom and Dad. But the families did not want them. 

 The next day, the family woke up, and the first thing they did is throwing the balloons out the window. Then the four balloons took a few hours to arrive at China again. When they were at China, they stuck on a tree gain and they got a drink and slept. ZZZZZZZZZZZ in a loud voice. 

有一天，牛寶媽突然有一個靈感，把牛小寫的小故事，做成漂亮的“繪本”，一定能讓他高興得蹦起來，讓他更有動力多寫一些。雖然只是簡單得配一個插圖，我們兩個一起設(shè)計，一起排版，一起畫。比如上面寫的這個《Four Ballons on Vacation》，最初想把小故事打印出來，然后在空白處畫畫，嘗試之后效果并不好。我們還是決定先畫草圖，再畫到素描紙上，最后再把文字抄寫上去。
 

這是抄寫好之后的效果。牛小寶果然對這個自己做的繪本得意地不得了，到處拿給朋友看，宛如自己已經(jīng)是諾貝爾文學(xué)獎得主了。這個工作我們至今還在繼續(xù)，積攢多了之后，可以裝定成冊。
 

這篇文章我先在自己公眾號：牛寶媽媽上發(fā)表過，修改完善后在這里寫給花友。