Child development
1. You are asked to select a reading book for a three year old. Describe the features you would want within the book in order to foster a child’s intellectual ability, such as colour recognition and shape recognition?
For this assignment is my chosen book is: Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell.
In my opinion this book contains lots of things that a three-years old needs to develop intellectually. Children at this age, learns quickly through exploring. They use all of their senses to discover new things from the world.
Reading this book, children can get involved in the story. It is easy to read, to understand. It has simple, short sentences which are understandable by 3 years olds as they already can talk in complete 3-5 words sentences. The text is repeating itself: “So they sent me a…” is just like a rhyme, and it makes the story enjoyable, interesting. By the third page, children usually are repeating the words.
Probably, listening this story couple of times, they are able to tell it by themselves, by their words. If not, they can tell a simple story from the pictures.
This book is able to teach colours and shapes. Every page contains different basic colours and basic shapes, such as yellow, red, green, blue, and rectangles, squares. They can recognize different animals which children are interested in. They learn about how animals look like, what makes them unique, their main characteristic, for example: the elephant is big, the giraffe is tall, the lion is fierce, etc.
Because this book is a lift-the-flap book, kids can get involved in the reading. They can uncover the hiding animals under the boxes. Then, when they got known which animal is hiding there, they can imitate them.
It is good fun and learning adventure for them and their parents as well.
2. How would you design a book? Describe your layout in terms of language, images, colours.
If I were a children book writer, designer, I would consider the age I write my books to, because every age
For this assignment is my chosen book is: Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell.
In my opinion this book contains lots of things that a three-years old needs to develop intellectually. Children at this age, learns quickly through exploring. They use all of their senses to discover new things from the world.
Reading this book, children can get involved in the story. It is easy to read, to understand. It has simple, short sentences which are understandable by 3 years olds as they already can talk in complete 3-5 words sentences. The text is repeating itself: “So they sent me a…” is just like a rhyme, and it makes the story enjoyable, interesting. By the third page, children usually are repeating the words.
Probably, listening this story couple of times, they are able to tell it by themselves, by their words. If not, they can tell a simple story from the pictures.
This book is able to teach colours and shapes. Every page contains different basic colours and basic shapes, such as yellow, red, green, blue, and rectangles, squares. They can recognize different animals which children are interested in. They learn about how animals look like, what makes them unique, their main characteristic, for example: the elephant is big, the giraffe is tall, the lion is fierce, etc.
Because this book is a lift-the-flap book, kids can get involved in the reading. They can uncover the hiding animals under the boxes. Then, when they got known which animal is hiding there, they can imitate them.
It is good fun and learning adventure for them and their parents as well.
2. How would you design a book? Describe your layout in terms of language, images, colours.
If I were a children book writer, designer, I would consider the age I write my books to, because every age