When I was in elementary school they made us read. My mom told me that when she used to try and read to me at night I was always busy trying to read another book. I was a person who loved to read.…
Bechdel narrating helps the reader to have overall understanding of the problem for each picture. Bechdel main argument is that she like to reader a lot, as a result it sometimes a daily problem in her life schedule.…
As children grow, it is important to find materials that correspond to their growth in multiple areas in order to strengthen and further their development. Perhaps one of the best tools for accomplishing this task is books, which can be used to strengthen a child’s cognition, language, and understanding of the world around them. One such example is A Wonderful Wind from Disney’s “Out & About with Pooh: A Grow and Learn Library.” This book was written by Ann Braybrooks and demonstrates how a book, when written with appropriate developmental steps in mind, can be an excellent tool for helping children ages five to seven learn and develop in the physical, cognitive, social, and emotional domains. Before one even begins reading the story, the…
When I was a preteen, my parents thought that reading as a good habit needed to be fostered from my childhood. Therefore, I had bedtime stories since I was three years old. My parents would prepare different stories and read for me everyday. The books at that time always had more cartoons than characters, and my parents would teach me to recognize characters in the books.…
The author of Child and Adolescent Development recommends reading with your child. You can help your child better understand the story by asking open ended questions like: What do you think will happen next? Can it really rain hamburgers? Another suggestion is having ritual nighttime readings. You can try to have your child create an alternate ending to their favorite story: this allows for your child to build their imagination and vocabulary at the same time. Children learn best through their everyday experiences in play with the people they love and trust, and when they are having…
so it is important to read to them, as not only they get a story from you reading the book, but the understanding from you that you read a book from left to right and the page are turned from front to back, and also when choosing a book, choose one for the age of the child/ren, reading a book one to one is always great so if this can…
One of the most memorable books of my childhood is called “The Rainbow Fish”. In kindergarten, we read this book almost every day. I don’t know why I liked this particular book so much. Was it the colorful pattern the book cover had? I just don’t know. I thought this book was the most amazing book I ever heard of. When I think of this book, I think about how my teacher helped me and my classmates learn how to read better with this book. My literacy experience started at home. Every one can’t say the same. Sitting in bed every night, waiting on my mother to come tuck me in and read me a bedtime stories. When she finally came, she would walk towards my bookshelf to grab a particular book every night. I never knew what it was called, but I know…
*The first thing I remember about my childhood reading is my mom putting up this tent in my room and she just read a bunch of story books to me and we spent all day in that tent in my bedroom.…
What moved me the most as a child were stories in which people found creative ways to shelter and feed themselves; I relished books like My Side of the Mountain that described in detail the way Sam Gribley made a house…
When my teacher would tell our class to write a story I would take that as a challenge. I would try my best to write the best story out of the entire class, and I absolutely loved it. Reading and writing is and always will be one of my favorite past times.…
The most basic summarization of my thoughts on John Holt’s “How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading” would be to say I am in strong agreement with him. Holt describes his teaching experience with elementary school students and how he’s found fault in the most commonly used methods of such. In my opinion, learning even the most basic english concepts in a harsh pass or fail environment can take away from a person's interest in these topics. A main factor in reading or writing should be the enjoyment of it, but there's stress that comes with good grades. Holt's fear that said stress could turn children off to literature so soon in life is justified. The literary arts are about creativity; when under pressure, you lose some of that creative motivation.…
My favorite book series is the The Diary of a Wimpy Kid. It has five books and I’m reading the fifth one which is my favorite so far. I really like these books because they are really funny and always make me laugh. It is about a teenage boy, Greg that’s in eighth grade. He has dorky parents, an evil older brother who has a band called Loaded Diaper. He also has a three year old brother who is “innocent” and always gets what he wants. Life is tricky for Greg because he’s the middle child who is always getting beaten up by his older brother Rodrick and always gets the blame when it’s really little Manny’s fault. The Diary of a Wimpy Kid also has three movies but I prefer the books more.…
I sat down with the rest of my classmates on the blue round rainbow rug that has been lovely placed right outside the children section in our school library. Our librarian there has chosen to read us “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein. I listen to every word she says as the words flowed from her mouth in such a way that it seem to put me in a hypnotic state. Since that day, I have love to hear that story read aloud to me. I did not know how to read or how to figure out what the words on the page said, but that was the day that started my journey to learning how to read. In Mem Fox book “Reading Magic” the author makes it quite clear if you want children to learn how to read you have to read to them first. Children who are read to on a daily…
Aims: The aim of this assignment is to demonstrate and plan a story to read to a group of children aged 2 and half to 4. I chose this age group because this is the group I work with on a daily bases from 9:30 to 12:30 five days a week. I am picking a story called “Oh Dear” by Rod Campbell who is a Scottish writer and illustrator of several popular children's books including the classic lift-the-flap board book “Dear Zoo”. As it is a story that helps the children with learning the different animals on the farm and also encourages the children to use their imaginations as they lift up the different flaps in the book to see what is behind them. Which Maria Montessori says “Imaginative teaching materials are the heart of the process”. All of Rod Campbell’s “books have simple text often with repeating phrases which is ideal for pre-readers” and will also Help the children with langue and intellectual skills. “The child proceeds at his own pace in an environment controlled to provide means of learning” -Maria Montessori. this book also helps the children physically as they have to get up to lift up the flaps on the book “movement is therefore the essential of life education cannot be conceived of ad a means to moderate or worse to inhibit movement; it should only function as an aid to a better expenditure of energy whilst allowing it to develop normally” -Maria Montessori pg 102 discovery of a child. “The aim of the children who persevere in their work with an object is certainly not to “learn”; they are drawn to it by the needs of their inner life, which must be recognized and developed by its means.” – Maria Montessori pg 120 discovery of a child. To develop their attention spans…
Natural resources include all those materials which can be utilized by man to his advantage. The basic needs of life include air, water, sunlight, minerals and habitat. All these are of cosmic origin and are not created by man and therefore, are called natural resources. The natural resources occur in all the three divisions of biosphere (lithosphere, atmosphere and hydrosphere)…