"children learn best when the experience is pleasant and free" - John Holt, author and educator.
• Children have short attention spans. And books compete to grab their attention over video games, tv and friends.
Although they are more creative and more receptive to information than adults.
• phycologists believe a babies mind was blank and experiences were impressed after birth, a blank canvas.
• (habituation) tests show that babies get bored of repletion.
• When babies are asleep, they are still learning and absorbing information. It has been shown that they respond to their surroundings when they are sleeping, e.g. blowing on their face or twitching to music.
• Babies learn through 5 senses, they explore through taste, touch sight, sound and smell. they are always putting things in their mouths and up against their face to work out textures etc. This is used in babies books with material pop outs and bright colours. and musical elements.
• At school age, children have found their preferred way of learning, theses are split up into these categories Auditory, Visual, Kinaesthetic (physically learning). Auditory and visual learners are proven get on better in a school environment.
• "I hear i forget, i see i remember, i do i understand "- Ancient chinese proverb. Children learn better in a group environment, a more social situation with parents or friends.
• Self motivated and self directed learning - Children are very inquisitive as they are willing to learn. Can often be self motivated, like a jigsaw puzzle for the sense of accomplishment and to see a pretty picture. They have a need to problem solve like children games such as putting different shapes into the correct holes.
• 3 recognised approaches to aiding and improving children's learning:
Building on pre-existing knowledge- taking the familiar in order to explain the unfamiliar.
Transferring knowledge - applying the learned information to a real life situation, e.g cooking or instruction book.
Memory Strategies - repetition or rhyme to remember things. Like the the difficulty rhyme.
• Eric Carle's, the very hungary caterpillar - had lots of elements to learn from e.g. counting, days of the week, a lifecycle of a caterpillar, sensory elements. visually stimulating, done i a subtle way as i only has 250 words in.
• Added features of a children's book include: paper engineering, pull tabs, flaps and folds, pop ups, die-cuts, textures, specialised inks, digitised, stickers crayons, wipe clean, puppets.
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