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中年得子，家境中等，父母大专学历，比较典型的普通家庭。jack目前就读于上海某双语学校四年级，平时课余时间主要是游泳，阅读。校内成绩：语文中等偏上，数学，英语处于前列。
jack去年十月小托福裸考卓越，今年ar突飞猛进，2月份9.6, 6月初更是达到13.0。小学低年级时曾参加过21世纪英语演讲比赛，最好成绩是进入决赛，但错过报名截止日，无缘决赛。
我们英语启蒙比较早，2012年4月jack出生后家里经常播放英语儿歌，18个月大就参加了“美吉姆”的欢动课和音乐课。欢动课主要是玩秋千，走平衡木等，音乐课是外教带领听英语儿歌，打拍子，做游戏等。后来由于上幼儿园，从松江搬到徐汇，就没有再去美吉姆了，一直觉得挺可惜的。
3岁之前，妈妈经常讲一些简单的绘本，如动物，水果等。徐汇的幼儿园是公立市级师范性质的，每周有一次外教课，没有教材，以做游戏，互动为主，也算一种输入吧。后来经朋友介绍，就近报了一对一的外教课，当时jack比较小，没有按教材上课，唯一的要求就是做做游戏，讲讲绘本等。一开始一周一次，后来一周二次，上了一年多，基本没有输出，课程结束后没有续费。
期间每天看30分钟英语动画片，如：汪汪队（不识字，中文字幕看不了），听妈妈讲30分钟绘本，印象比较深的有:an elephant& piggie biggie,碰到不理解的，有时候只能借助肢体语言来表达，中文解释得比较少。在家搭乐高或外出时经常听英语儿歌和童话故事。
之后又找了一家培训机构，小班课6-8人，外教上课。回家作业很少，jack也没有预习复习等，我们只是偶尔向班主任了解一下他的学习情况。中班时我很焦虑，主要是幼升小近在眼前，听了不少咨询课，最后决定去松江读双语学校的学前班。学校新开的，竞争相对较小，而且可以直升小学，面试后幸运地录取了。新学校有外教驻班，每天都有英语课，我们心里踏实了不少，就没有再去培训班（离家比较远，讲课内容对jack来说已经有点浅了，自然拼读教了一半），浪费了小20节课。
学前班那年jack比较轻松，除了运动（腰旗橄榄球，3岁开始的）没有任何补习班，回家后就是动画片，读绘本等。学前班下半学期，刚好eca（课后课）有英语，我们就报名了，主要教自然拼读，一周一次，jack班内分组也进入了set1(一个班25人，分5桌，按级别分）。由于效果明显，一年级就续费了，一周二次，主要是精读与写作（大概读了一年左右）。
第一次参加ar测试（2018年10月），ge:2.4, 每分钟阅读速度63个词。
当时看了盖兆泉老师的“做孩子最好的英语学习规划师”，深有感悟，严格按照听力先行，听力级别定在4.0以上，主要用喜马拉雅和百度网盘，时间安排在上下学来回的路上，大概每天裸听的输入在1个小时，晚上则阅读2.4左右的绘本30分钟。
现在回想起来，jack自然拼读学得比较好，主要有2个原因，一是听力词汇已到3000（估计），二是反复学了3遍（校内也教了一遍）。
这两大套数是进入初章的启蒙，从2018年10月到2019年5月一直断断续续的，期间也放弃过，穿插看了一些 i can read等单本的分级读物，国家地理，图书馆系列。正式进入初章是从2019年5月开始的，标志性的读本是magic tree house,接下来自主阅读就非常顺利了。
在阅读的同时，为了增加口语练习，2019年3月底报名dada的网课，从wonders g2起步，一周二次，每次1小时，寒暑假每周6次。
进入初章前，我们也遇到过很多挫折，特别是从听妈妈讲绘本转变到自主阅读。一开始jack不愿意自己阅读，为了鼓励他，我们全家开会讨论决定每天晚饭后18:30-19:00为阅读时间，3个人各自看自己的书，这样持续了3个月，jack终于能坚持独立阅读了，中英文都是如此。
2019年10月前jack还阅读了magic tree house merlin missions 等初章书，同年10月测ar,ge:4.0,阅读速度每分钟108词。
2020年疫情，寒假及网课期间jack比较疯狂，每天花在英语上的时间超过5小时。1小时裸听，30分钟动画片，30分钟raz, 1小时网课，2小时阅读（经常超过）。当时jack开始看rick riordan 全系列，非常投入，边看边做笔记 ，经常一大早（我们还没起床）一个人坐在客厅里阅读，可见兴趣的力量是巨大的。接下来是warriors系列，也是爱不释手。6月dada网课结束，7月我们找了个留学生做小老师，每周2次网课，聊天和精读为主，寒暑假5-6次/周。8月ar测试，ge:6.0,阅读速度每分钟175词。
之后看了一些非小说类的： who was, what was , where is, i survived, magic tree house fact tracker, horrible histories, horrible science等。另外还有一套24本的ranger's apprentice系列不得不提，在jack心里远超哈利波特。
2021年8月ar测试，ge:7.0, 阅读速度每分钟170词。整整一年只提高了1.0，当时我也很焦虑，后来只好自我安慰：阅读不仅仅为了提高语言水平，更重要的是知识的积累，认知的提高等。我和jack沟通后增加了非小说类的阅读，先后阅读了the story of civilization 和 the story of the world 系列, you wouldn't want, who was等，2022年2月ar测试， ge:9.6, 阅读每分钟190词，6月初myon测试，zpd:5.0-13.0（ar13.0）。近期jack已开始英语长篇小说“dream ?”的创作。
dream？
by: death's island
prologue
suddenly, he moved without anyone else seeing him. he ran and ran around his house in the middle of the night. he wanted to be strong and fit to be a kid known to everyone as "sports guy”. a man in a black cloak stood on the top of the local church and smiled at the trying child. without the child noticing, the man shook his cloak, moved his arms into an oval shape, and then stopped...... abruptly, a ball of neon light shot out of his arm and into the body of the boy. then the man disappeared into thin air!
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once, in the city of smolderfog there was a kid named baron. he had brown-black hair, blue eyes and liked to play sports, although he was as skinny as ever. it was his day! he was a sixth grader now, a sixth grader that would begin his classes soon. it would definitely be a day to prepare all his things and be ready to go to school. he was going to live in his very own house, and after that his parents were going to go away and retire somewhere calm and cozy; a great place for retirement. that was superb news to baron because he liked being alone. no one is like him. he wished to find a team but no one could cooperate with him. they thought he was way too nerdy. he liked math, science, physics and computer class the best and he was longing to go somewhere else to get him more satisfaction in this world. he liked reading books and doing sports, of course. however, middle-school just gave him a sensation that it would be important and it would be his choice completely (now that his parents were gone) to pursue his interests.
* * *
as the first spark of morning came, baron got up, made his last breakfast at this” so called” home and happily went to school without any worry about anything. there were a lot of things he didn’t know and didn’t want to know. he didn’t know going to school was the beginning of his fall, fear and despair. also, he was alone, in something no one could reassure him; what he didn’t want to know as well was that this opportunity was the most important step to success or failure; a step in his life.
baron was excited about this school; this is a new start. he chose this school because he likes it. it can let you choose the classes you like the best and what you detest the most. it will let you have more time to feel what you will be, the classes you choose as the most you will have more time in them even though you would have to learn other classes whether you like it or not; but the only thing that gets you to go out of a class you really hate (you can only choose two and you can choose any of them except the main subjects) is when you go to the library and choose a book you like, (about one of the topics you choose as like the best (the ltb pile)), everyone who has heard of this school likes it; it has its own way of attracting people to its history. the school is growing bigger by the minute, it can be compared to a whole stadium or even more if some would like to.
baron chose his ltb for his hobbies (physics... if you still remember) and his “go to library (gtl)” classes as art and music (music refers only to instrumental classes).
before he went to school, he found very surprised that by the doorstep an unusual letter by his parents. it read:
dear son:
you understand that it has come to the time that we retire and live in a way you cannot understand, you are still too young.
once, we helped a cloaked man by getting him out of the oozing mud,
the cloaked man had nothing to give back to us,
so, he then gave us a ring saying it would be a gift.
we accepted it and will give it to you now!
wish you luck,
dad and mom
p.s: also, the ring is in the packet with this letter
p.p.s: if you have a problem with school or trouble of any kind, go to any book you can find, thump your thumb on the cover, back cover and any of its pages;
mutter “enterliioo” when you’re finished and then go inside.
if you meet the guards, say you’re the son of samantha codines and jacob codines
baron thought,” how interesting, i thought my mother said we are a family of smith’s, and my parents are in a kind of secret agency.”
just then the bell rang and he had to go to school. baron knocked off the bell, put on the ring his parents gave him, closed the door and muttered,” never mind i don’t have a lot of time, after all it’s the first day of school.”
英语原版路一路走来，看似轻松，其实背后的付出，外人很难看到，2020年，2021年jack共阅读原版书2000万字。几个重要的节点很重要，听力词汇3000，自然拼读，分级读物，初章（magic tree house）,中高章，非小说，获奖作品等，还有就是网课，目的是让孩子有语言环境，多听多说。ar除了语言难度外，还有一个重要的参考指标就是兴趣年龄 ，这个非常重要。比如孩子在小学低年级时，不适合看6年级以上的，因为他们不理解，也不感兴趣，有关调查显示：普通孩子四年级才开始对历史有兴趣。特别是ar过了7.0以后，小说类的书籍可选读本大幅减少，这时引入非小说类的恰到好处。
在孩子的成长过程中，家长的认知和格局同样重要。从小要树立孩子的责任心，自己的事自己负责，家长只负责引导和提供帮助。jack上学以来，我们不检查作业，有时候考试前提醒他复习，但他不愿意复习，我们也就顺其自然，自己承担结果就好。除了游泳（当然也沟通的，只是他不喜欢训练）以外所有的事都事先和他沟通，在征得他同意的情况下才开始。所有的学习都离不开阅读，阅读除了能提高语言能力，理解能力外，更重要的是为孩子打开了世界，让他们充满好奇心，想成为什么样的人，如何成为等等。阅读让jack不断成长，内驱力也在慢慢形成，阅读会不断打开孩子的上限，家长不能太功利，阅读不是为了做阅读理解题，也不仅仅是为了提高学习成绩，而是为了终身学习。
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