These ideas play out in the interrelated and changing ideas regarding the role of the family in children's literacy development, as well as in the appropriate curriculum for preschoolers. Both historical reviews and original documents pertinent to the various historical trends are used to provide ...
Learning how to count and the ability to recognise patterns are just budding indicators of your little ones’ interest in the world of numbers. Numeracy is essential for preschoolers to develop logical thinking and establish critical reasoning strategies, enabling them to make sense of numbers, patte...
To maximize the benefits of reading alphabet books to your preschoolers, engage them in interactive reading. Here are some ideas. Point out and name the letters they recognize. Encourage them to make the sounds associated with each letter. Repetition is key – read the same book multiple tim...
This chapter presents a developmental perspective on literacy that explores children’s evolving knowledge even prior to being formally taught to read and write. It starts by comparing four different approaches within this perspective: (1) the earliest Vygotskian, (2) the constructivist, (3) the s...
In a poem entitled 'Inquiry,' Mary Harbage captures the substance and spirit of teacher research: 'To ease her disquietude,' Harbage writes, 'the teacher reached into the clutter of new ideas and untried ways... asked a question,... and ... TL Mccarty - Springer Netherlands 被引量: ...
, Drawing for Science Education (pp. 55–65). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789463008754_006 Chapter Google Scholar Bauer, J. R., & Booth, A. E. (2019). Exploring potential cognitive foundations of scientific literacy in preschoolers: Causal reasoning and executive function. Early ...
Although parents sometimes choose to write down children's ideas for them (Burns & Casbergue, 1992), the current coding system also gauges the parent's efforts to involve the child in actively producing writing using the same techniques as expert writers, including segmenting the words into ...
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10 For example, the teacher might augment her linguistic expansion by adding, “She’s realizing that she’s unique or different from her new friends.” Here the teacher adds several new ideas, including the vocabulary term unique. Follow-up question. Follow-up questions ask the...
I’d had ideas in the past. But this one, strangely, emerged from my sleep-addled brain one morning almost fully formed. Premise, dialogue, everything except the resolution and conclusion. I had the presence of mind to actually open my computer and write it down and for that I am extre...