Help!! Holistic Development

[Jenniferlou]

Hi I need a bit of help as I have hit a wall!

1. Analyse the importance to children's holistic development of Speech, Language and Communication

2. Evaluate strategies for developing early literacy and mathematics

3. Identify the communication development needs of children

4. Evaluate activities in terms of the development of children’s speech, language and communication.

Many thanks

Jenny

[Ruthierhyme]

Hi which handbook do you have to help research this?

page 298 of this book provides information that you can go on to evaluate.

Quote:
Understand how the early years practitioner supports the development of speech, language and communication of children

Do you remember learning to talk? Probably not, but you may remember adults talking to you when you were playing or sharing a story. The role of the adults seems to be important in promoting children's language. In this section, we look at ways in which language is important to children's overall development and how we can use technology to promote children's language.

The pages then go on to explore aspects that you can relate to your own settng - quality interactions with adults, providing a 'cosy' environment, interesting resources and displays, opportunities for sharing books and rhymes and opportunities for role play.

strategies for developing early literacy and mathematics
Page 226 explains supporting children's emergent literacy by working closely with parents, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists. Developing a language rich environment. Identify the framework for supporting the development of children's emergent literacy - EYFS in you work in England. Introducing phonic programme.

Strategies for developing emergent literacy:
Modelling of writing - where adults write words, label displays and photgraphs in front of children
Scribing
Mark-making opportunities
Writing tables - table top writing activities
Hand movements
Sound games
Nursery rhymes
Story sacks
Sharing books
Page 247 - activities for developing emergent mathematics:
Number related activities
Shape and space
Patterns
Matching and sorting
Measuring
Time
Problem solving


3. Identify the communication development needs of children
This requires information about how you observe and record children's development in the setting - page 265 looks at this in greater depth

4. Evaluate activities in terms of the development of children’s speech, language and communication. page 304+


Hope this helps

[Shahida1]

Unit 3.5 – 4.3 Describe the benefits to children's holistic learning and development when supporting emergent literacy?

i dnt know how to write on Cognitive Development, cant think how to write on this, can anyone help please

[kaneez77]

A child's cognitive development during early childhood, which includes building skills such as pre-reading, language, vocabulary, and numeracy, begins from the moment a child is born.

[kaneez77]

Some of the most important cognitive skills for a child are:
Attention and response
Language learning
Memory
Thinking
Information processing
Problem-solving
Simple reasoning
Understanding cause and effect
Pattern recognition
Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget came up with the theory of cognitive development in 1952. According to Piaget, the environment does not shape the child’s behaviour; rather, children and adults actively seek to understand their environment and adapt.

Piaget’s theory is the most comprehensive theory of cognitive development in children. The theory propagated that we can learn as much about children’s intellectual development from their incorrect answers to test questions as we can from their correct answers. He describes four distinct stages in cognitive development in children: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete, and formal.

The four stages of growth:
Sensorimotor Stage: This is the stage from birth to age 2 where the child is able to differentiate between himself/herself and the environment.
Preoperational Stage: At this stage (age 2–7), the child needs concrete physical situations. Objects are classified in simple ways based on their important features. The child is not able to conceptualise abstractly.
Concrete Operational Stage: At this stage (age 7–11), the child begins to think abstractly and conceptualise things, creating logical structures that explain the child’s physical experiences.
Formal Operations Stage: This is the stage from age 11–15 in which cognition reaches its final form. The child’s abstract thinking is similar to that of an adult, and he or she is capable of deductive and hypothetical reasoning.
Benefits of cognitive development:
Promotes long-term learning: Learning, as we all know, is a lifelong process. Cognitive learning encourages students to take a hands-on approach to learning which will help them make important decisions later in life by studying all the pros and cons.
Develops problem-solving skills: Problem-solving skills are essential later in life, both for career-building and for managing a family.
Improves comprehension: Cognitive learning helps students to comprehend things clearly and develop a deeper understanding of situations and circumstances.
Improves confidence: With deeper comprehension skills and more knowledge, children can approach life with greater enthusiasm and confidence, helping them be successful in all their endeavours.
Improves memory: A deeper understanding of the subject makes the student retain the knowledge gained for a longer time, thus improving their memory.
Instills a love of learning: Concept-based education instills a lifelong love of learning in the student, pushing them to continue gaining knowledge and developing new skills. Both of these things are important for career success.
Emphasises innovation: In cognitive learning, students reflect on problems, explore different ideas and come up with new solutions.
Children should be able to improve their ability to focus, to remember information and think more critically as they age. Cognitive skills allow children to understand the relationships between ideas, to grasp the process of cause and effect and to improve their analytical skills.

Why an early focus on cognitive skills is crucial
Some young children may have developmental delays or challenges that can be identified and addressed if caught early. Because of this, parents, teachers and caretakers should keenly observe each child’s development and address any issues as early as possible. This can prevent the child from struggling later on in life.

In a fast-developing, competitive world, cognitive skill development from an early age is very crucial for a child. Young children grow physically during their early childhood, and they also grow mentally by observing and interacting with the world around them. It is important for parents to foster cognitive development in their child as soon as the child is born, because it is the foundation for the child’s success later on in their life. For example, research shows that children who can distinguish sounds at six months of age are better at acquiring the skills for learning to read at four and five years of age.

To promote your child’s cognitive development, it is important that you actively engage in quality interactions on a daily basis. Examples include:

Talk to your baby. You can start doing this while you’re pregnant. One important aspect of a child’s cognitive development is language learning. Research has proven that children acquire language abilities long before birth. At birth, babies recognise their mother’s voice and can discriminate between the language spoken by the mother and foreign languages. It is important for the mother to keep up a conversation with her child, even when he or she is still in the womb.
Help your baby learn the names of objects. Once your baby has been born, continue talking to them, and share the names of commonly used objects. Studies have shown that talking to babies boosts their brain power and helps them to learn languages faster.
Let your children explore and observe. Children have a natural curiosity for the things around them, and they should be allowed to explore and learn things by observing. Overly protective parents may actually hinder their child’s natural growth and learning.
Singing and reading to your baby. Studies have shown that music helps children develop healthy skills as it soothes and creates a positive environment.
Exposing your toddler to books and puzzles.
Expanding on your child’s interests in specific learning activities. For example, your toddler might show an early interest in dinosaurs, so you can take him/her on a trip to the natural history museum to learn more about the time that these creatures roamed the earth.
Answer your child’s questions. As your child grows up and starts asking questions, answer them accurately and patiently. Children are naturally inquisitive. Parents should whet their children’s curiosity, since it will help them learn.
Another way that you can foster your child’s cognitive development is to provide them with choices and prompt them to make thoughtful decisions. You should also allow your child to explore different ways of solving problems. While you may want to provide some gentle guidance and encouragement, allow your child some time to figure out things, like a new puzzle. This may require some patience on your part, but it will ultimately help them to learn.

[kaneez77]

This development is important for children’s holistic development as this will help the children to socialise and help them express what they like and need, this will get them to have more sense about the world. If the child can communicate this will help them with their confident and self-esteem levels as they can talk about how they feel.it is important for children to use their own language skills and not to listen to other all the time and this could put their development back. Adults should praise children a lot so they have the encouragement try new things but it is important you adults to give them feedback so that they can learn from right and wrong.

[kaneez77]

If the child is getting encouraged and praised by their careers as they learn then with can build up their self-esteem and confidence as if they didn’t then this could make the children have insecurities about their own abilities to do things and would have a need of people reassuring them, this could lead up to them having Lack of motivation and having a poor self-esteem about doing new things. When growing up children will look for role models this could be their carer. If their carer had poor social and communications skills then this could have an effect on the child as they would reflect form them and wouldn’t know any difference, so this would affect their development. Children that have limited opportunities to develop their communication skills could have poor behaviour and attention span. It varies for a children’s expectation as if they had past experiences as if they had parents that had poor experiences in the education system then this may think that the child if the same and make them have low expectations on

[kaneez77]

Evaluate strategies for developing early literacy and mathematics
Counting
Helping children to recognise and count the numbers one to ten will stand them in good stead when they start their reception year at primary school. Counting can easily be incorporated into most daily activities (eg count the biscuits/blocks/crayons), but there are many other ways to focus on this skill:

Sing songs – lots of songs involve counting, eg Five Little Ducks, Ten Green Bottles. Music is particularly effective in embedding learning.
Read books – there are plenty of books that support number learning, eg The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Ten Black Dots.
Play board/card games – any game that involves rolling dice and counting spaces (eg snakes and ladders, ludo) will help children learn their numbers. Other games such as dominoes are also great for number recognition.
Sorting
Being able to classify things is a key aspect of numeracy. Matching and sorting – for example by size, shape or colour – helps children make sense of the world and develop their logical thinking skills. Here are some ways in which you can support them:

Set up sorting activities – there are plenty of variations to explore (and lots of ideas if you search online), but for example you could get the children to sort crayons by colour, pasta by shape, or blocks by size.
Invest in sorting toys – there are many educational toys designed to help develop sorting skills.
Incorporate sorting into other activities – ask the children to sort things as they tidy away, or make it part of a nature walk (eg collect leaves and then sort them by shape, colour or size).
Recognising Patterns
Learning to recognise patterns is an important part of developing reasoning skills. There are lots of ways in which you can support preschool children with pattern recognition, and these fall into two categories – finding patterns and creating patterns. Here are some ideas for both:

Find patterns – help the children look for patterns in everything around them – on clothes, in pictures, while you’re out walking etc. Talk to them about the colours/shapes/sequences to help them understand about patterns. You could also explore more abstract forms of patterns, for example in their daily routine.
Make patterns – let the children get creative with stickers, stamps or beads to make patterns; clap or beat out rhythms, building up a sequence; get the children to cross the room or garden using a series of repeated movements (eg skip, jump, stride).
Recognising Shapes
The ability to identify shapes is the foundation for learning geometry. By the time they start primary school, most children should be able to recognise basic shapes, i.e circle, square, rectangle and triangle. There are lots of activities to support this, for example:

Go on a shape hunt – in the nursery, in the garden, or on a walk – ask the children to look for shapes in their everyday world, e.g the wheel on a car is a circle, the doorway is a rectangle.
Get creative with shapes – use shape stamps or shape cutters to make some artwork.
Invest in shape sorting/matching toys/games – there are lots of resources available to support shape recognition
Measuring and Comparing
Measuring how tall, heavy or fast something is – and how short, light or slow something else is in comparison – can be a really fun and engaging aspect of maths learning. There are lots of activities you can do with preschool children, using both standard and non-standard units:

Do some cooking – use a simple recipe and get the children to help measure out the ingredients.
Explore different ways of measuring – work out the length of the garden by pacing it out, using a measuring tape, using a broom.
Have a building competition – get the children to build towers with blocks, and then count the blocks to measure and compare their height.
Play with timers – time the children running races or carrying out tasks, and compare how fast they are.
Guess the volume – fill various containers with water and get the children to guess which holds the most, which the least etc. Use a measuring jug to record the volumes and reveal the results.
Talk to children often. More than 60 percent of parents believe that talking to children starts to benefit their language skills at 3 months or older, when in fact it begins at birth. Start talking to your children at a young age, and as they get older, engage them in conversations about their day, ask them questions, tell jokes and make up stories together – all of these efforts will help them develop important language skills and help with early literacy.
Make reading together a daily routine. This is one of the most important early literacy tips. Ask children questions about the book as you read, point out familiar letters that match their names and fill your home library with a variety of fiction and nonfiction books. The benefit of reading with your child begins before your child can verbalize words or phrases, so start early to help benefit your child’s long-term language development. Check out this blog post for answers to some common reading and literacy questions.
Play rhyming games with children. Car rides are a great time for teaching phonics and helping children develop their auditory systems. Take turns saying a word like “cat” and having your children answer with a rhyming word like “bat.” Then, see how many nonsense words you and your children can come up with that rhyme with the same word (e.g., yat, zat, dat). These types of word games for kids and similar educational games help make learning fun!
Set up an art/writing table in your main living area. Include a variety of open-ended materials like blank paper, markers, crayons, glue sticks, scissors, envelopes, stamps, paint and play dough. Encourage children to use their emergent writing skills (drawing, scribbling, invented spelling) to create letters, lists and stories. Coloring is also a great way to bond with your child!
Provide kid’s activities at home that support motor development. Both gross and fine motor development aid children in becoming effective writers. Encourage children to be active outdoors by climbing, running and skipping to build gross-motor strength and provide lacing, stacking and dressing activities when indoors to build fine-motor skills that will later help with writing. You can find additional activity ideas on our Pinterest.

[kaneez77]

Identify the communication development needs of children
3-12 months Cooing, smiling, and laughing
Playing with sounds – babbling (e.g. da, da, da)
Communicating with gestures like waving and pointing
Sounding like they’re talking, but not using recognisable words

12-18 months Saying their first words with meaning – for example, saying ‘mama’ to call for their mum
Understanding many more words than they can say, including instructions like ‘sit down’
Mostly using nouns in their speech, such as ‘car’ or ‘duck’
By 18 months, using between 50 to 150 words

18 months to 2 years Combining words in telegraphic speech (e.g. ‘me go’, ‘dada throw ball’)
Using simple pronouns (‘me’, ‘I’, and ‘you’), but often confusing ‘me’ and ‘I’
Naming objects that they see regularly
Responding to simple commands like ‘pick up your coat’

2-3 years Beginning to say longer sentences of three or four words
Using some plurals and past tenses
Talking about what they’re doing as they do it
Conversation skills improve – they respond to you more often

3-4 years Speaking more clearly – strangers can mostly understand them
Asking ‘who’, ‘what’, and ‘why’ questions

4-5 years Using more complex sentences with words like ‘because’, ‘if’, ‘and’, or ‘when’
Telling stories and simple jokes
Being able to answer questions about stories
Being able to follow requests