QQ Quirk.2

Author: Yigan
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: The Word Maze is a maze created and exclusively launched by New Century Publishing House, designed to assist children in learning characters. It cleverly combines play and learning, collecting common Chinese characters that children often hear, see, and use. These characters are categorized by meaning and paired with corresponding storylines and situational images, forming games through maze techniques. This allows children to recognize characters while playing and play while recognizing characters, thereby stimulating their interest in learning characters and enhancing their ability to remember them.
Child psychology teaches us that the focus of attention in young children is primarily determined by their interests. In other words, the more interested they are in something, the more focused their attention becomes. The more focused their attention, the more effective their learning will be. The Word Maze is designed based on this characteristic of child psychology, transforming the process of learning abstract symbols into a joyful game. The interesting maze sparks children's curiosity and interest, encouraging them to play happily and absorb knowledge in the process.
As children navigate the maze, they continuously receive stimulation from the features of Chinese character symbols and intuitive abstract information through observation, identification, classification, recognition, searching, and summarization. This helps them understand and internalize this information, which is highly beneficial for developing their observation skills, memory, imagination, and thinking abilities.
The 120 characters listed in this maze are mostly selected from the vocabulary list of the first-grade textbooks in the nine-year compulsory education system. They can be used for play and learning for preschool children, as well as for reinforcing and enhancing character recognition skills for lower primary school students.