Region - Educational Research and Reviews

The English Curriculum Standards for Compulsory Education (2022 Edition) clearly points out that "integrated reading and writing ability" is a key part of primary school students' English core literacy. But in real life, primary school students often run into trouble with English writing—some don't feel like writing at all, others use the same boring words over and over, and a lot of their writing doesn't make logical sense. To fix these problems, this study picked two classic picture books, The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Handa's Surprise, and used them to see how picture book reading and writing teaching can work together. We used a three-dimensional "input-processing-output" teaching model and found some useful things: the many different ways picture books present information (like words, pictures, and even textures) really get kids interested in writing; the "language support" from picture books helps kids express themselves better; and the stories in picture books, with their clear contexts, make it easier for kids to think logically.