Abstract: Telling stories with children by looking at pictures can promote their intellectual development, cultivate their various abilities such as observation, imagination and creativity, as well as exercise their language expression and organizational skills, and at the same time, help build parent-child relationships. A child who loves to make up stories will not only have a quick mind, but will also be able to communicate with others in a clear and coherent way. How do I teach my child to read and tell a story? 1. Use step-by-step questions to guide your child when looking at the pictures. Depending on the age of the child, focus on the theme of the picture, from simple questions such as “what is there” and “what is it doing”, and gradually deepen to “what is it like” and “how is it done”, “The children’s age is the reason why they have to do this. 2, when looking at the picture to tell, to use language to guide children along a certain line of thought to tell, master the levels, grasp the main points. First, you should explain the time and place of the story, and then describe the characters (who are there, what they are wearing) and their activities. Use coherent language in your narrative to improve your child’s language expression. For 5 and 6 year olds, ask difficult questions, such as those that must be answered by looking at the picture carefully and thinking about it. 3. Look at the pictures and tell them to help children master how to tell something clearly. For children before the age of 3, a single picture is usually good, and children between the ages of 3 and 6 can be shown double or multiple comic strips with cause and effect relationships. The image of the characters should be simple and prominent, the plot is clear at a glance, bright colors. Second, how to teach children to read pictures and make up stories? 1. Looking at pictures and making up stories requires a certain amount of knowledge and experience. To make up a story by looking at a picture is to let children watch a picture, then freely imagine and organize themselves to make up a complete story with a beginning and an end. This is a great way to train young children’s thinking skills, imagination and language skills. Children usually do not do this activity until they are five or six years old. 2. To teach a child to look at a picture and make up a story, he or she should first look at the picture. The first step is to teach the child to see everything in this picture: people, animals, objects, character movements, expressions, etc. Then make a guess: What is he/she (it) doing? What time is it? Where is it? What might he or she have done in the past? What might they do in the future. …… Let the child see and imagine. 3. How to make up a story. Generally speaking, the beginning of the story is not too difficult to make up, so parents can make up the beginning of the story, and then let the child make up the middle or end of the story. In the process of making up, if the child can’t go on, parents should immediately think of ways to inspire him and help him to make up, but should pay attention to try not to make the child restricted by the parents’ ideas, to let the child imagine themselves, to develop their imagination. Third, the type of stories that children like to listen to most When parents look at the pictures and make up stories with their children, they should first understand what stories children like to listen to, followed by pictures and stories that are lively and interesting. Generally speaking, there are three types of stories that children like to listen to most: First, folk children’s stories. It may be the story of a small fairy, the adventures of small animals, or some myths, fables. These stories are handed down from previous generations, and most of the content remains the same, but the details are ever-changing. When telling such stories, you can add, subtract or change parts of the content according to your own meaning. This way, the child can feel the relationship between the present and the past. The second is an anecdote about a parent’s childhood. This type of story can be closer to the child and enhance the emotion. However, parents must be very frank in their descriptions and must not falsify. Especially when the parents themselves should have a good ability to express their feelings. The third is improvisation. This type of story has a specific pattern. For example, the story begins with a description of a small protagonist – a child, a small animal or an ore or a fruit or vegetable – and then a series of fairly plausible plots. The story has a happy ending, but the protagonist must be reborn or learn a lesson. Such stories should ideally have a moral and a connection to social values.