EDF3034 Children's Literacy Development - AT1 Group Vegetable Soup by https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious Goh Si Min (ID30705282) and Ma Si Jia (ID30873266) en-us 2019-08-07 06:26:02 UTC 2023-02-17 17:05:34 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/395381544/ff6cd82fe078b2e62366eb61ab9f24ed/vegetables_2330649_960_720.png Relations Between Playing Activities And Fine Motor Development https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/373570038 This resource offers an insight into how play can enhance young children's fine motor skills and this relates to Maria Montessori's concept of play. The play that links sensorimotor, cognitive and social-emotional experiences provides an ideal setting from brain development. This is supported by Prime Minister Lee's speech in 2012 that play enhances children’s physical development. Educators need to adopt the mindset that young children should be given the opportunity to gain or enhance language, social and motor skills.
through play. Play offers a natural process for children to develop and practice their fine motor skills. With play, children’s fine motor skills will be enhanced, especially in the area of their finger-grasps, which provides the basis for drawing and writing. ]]> 2019-08-07 13:10:02 UTC https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/373570038 Fine Motor Skills and Vocabulary vegetablesoup https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/373571830 2019-08-07 13:20:41 UTC https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/373571830 Keep Taking The Tablets: iPads, story apps and early literacy vegetablesoup https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/373572612 This resource offers a multimodal perspective of young children using technological gadgets such as iPads to engage in story applications which requires their concentration and eye-hand coordination. This relates to an integrated learning approach that Nurturing Early Learners practitioners practice. This is supported by a research paper written by Susan Edwards on the topic of "Digital Play", emphasizing on the positive influence of technology use on children's learning and developmental outcomes when they enhance their eye-hand coordination through the use of digital gadgets. ]]> 2019-08-07 13:24:41 UTC https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/373572612 Pre-Writing Preparation vegetablesoup https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/373575786 This resource offers a variety of strategies on how children can enhance their pincer grasping skills and this relates to Arnola Gesell's maturational-developmental theory. This theory is supported by Gesell Institute Of Child Development, which documented patterns in the way children develop, showing that all children go through similar and predictable sequences, though each child develops his / her handwriting skills at his / her own pace.]]> 2019-08-07 13:45:07 UTC https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/373575786 Supports for Vocabulary Instruction in Early Language and Literacy Methods Textbooks vegetablesoup https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/373577744 This resource provides an overview of early literacy methods that support young children vocabulary learning. This relates to Lev Vygotsky's theory of cognitive development which children acquire new language skills through social interaction. Children will engage in conversations where they will pick up new vocabularies from talking to their peers. This is supported by a research paper by Carien Wilsenach that having an abundance of knowledge of vocabularies aids in early literacy writing and other basic literacy skills such as phoneme-grapheme correspondences. ]]> 2019-08-07 13:56:44 UTC https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/373577744 AppCrayon vegetablesoup https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374313138 This resource offers a two-way strategy in which young children can explore technological gadgets while practicing their finger strength and tripod grip. This relates to

Jerome Bruner's constructivist theory. Learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current or past knowledge. The learner selects and transforms information, constructs hypotheses, and makes decisions, relying on a cognitive structure to do so. Cognitive structure (i.e., schema, mental models) provides meaning and organization to experiences and allows the individual to “go beyond the information given”. Instead of letting technology to harm children's fine motor development in the future, implement innovative methods to bring learning new knowledge and practicing a skill together. This is supported by Helene Mclaughlin's article about fine motor skills technology where she shared her experience on how she managed to fix her son's grip issues.

]]> 2019-08-13 13:35:56 UTC https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374313138 Playing Messenger and Scribe vegetablesoup https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374321611 This resource offers fours enriching academic vocabulary strategies on how teachers can use them to help children in building a robust vocabulary. Particularly, I liked the game on 'Messenger and Scribe'. This relates to Judy Willis, neurologist, and teacher, writes that students, especially adolescents, are more likely to store information as part of their long-term memory and make it available for later retrieval by participating in activities they enjoy. Researcher Robert Marzano also endorses learning games as an "engagement activity" that can result in increased student academic achievement. This is supported by a research paper on the impact of using fun activities on vocabulary learning. Fun exercise are a helpful and successful instrument that ought to be connected in vocabulary classes. The utilisation of amusement in vocabulary learning is an approach to make the lessons all the more fascinating, agreeable and powerful.]]> 2019-08-13 14:14:42 UTC https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374321611 LetterSchool - Improving Children's Reading And Writing Skills https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374360836 This is a mobile / tablet App that teaches children the layout of the letters by engaging them to trace uppercase and lowercase alphabet letters on the sensory device. The App aids in children's motion of tracing with their fingers by having dot points for them to follow and arrows to direct them. This relates to the "Learning In The Digital Age" concept, which is supported by the introduction chapter of the book "iPads in the Early Years : Developing Literacy and Creativity". A data research carried out by a school-aged children's learning behavioral specialist named Victoria Molfese, concluded that children tend to memorize the layout of the alphabets better when an electronic sensory gadget is used. ]]> 2019-08-13 17:13:02 UTC https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374360836 Teaching Handwriting To Children - 5 Essential Practices https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374362511 This video resource provides an insight into 5 essential principles that guides the teaching of handwriting. When learning handwriting, children should be seated in small groups, learn to write uppercase and lowercase alphabets as two individual groups, and be provided with various sensory materials to enhance their learning. This relates to the "multi-sensory learning" concept mentioned in the article "Handwriting in early childhood education: Current research and future implications", which emphasized the importance of teachers providing children with different materials, e.g. sandpaper, rice, iPad, playdough, to improve their handwriting skills. ]]> 2019-08-13 17:21:37 UTC https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374362511 21 Fun Handwriting Activities https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374363800 This website offers a range of fun and involving hands-on activities that engage children in the learning of handwriting. Easy to carry out activities such as crayon resistant art, writing on windows and sandbox writing were some the ideas mentioned in the webpage. This relates to the concept of "sensory integration", where the integration of vestibular and proprioceptive senses results in eye movements, posture, balance, muscle tone, and gravitational security. This is also supported by a research conducted by Katherine D. Arbuthnott and Gregory P. Kratzig where it was found that sensory learning is a more effective way of learning than general memorization. ]]> 2019-08-13 17:27:56 UTC https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374363800 Kindergarten Handwriting Activities and Tips https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374364499 This weblink provides a variation of interesting tips and activities on teaching children handwriting. These tips and activities aims to effectively develop the eye-hand coordination, visual perceptual skills and fine motor skills (pincer grasping). This is relatable to concept of "multi-modal learning", which is supported by the multisensory theory, found in Chapter 7: Sense of Play, from the book "A Teacher's Guide to Multisensory Learning : Improving Literacy by Engaging the Senses". Multisensory learning is described as a form of education that engages with the children's 5 senses, and produces a better learning outcome than children learning handwriting using traditional methods.]]> 2019-08-13 17:31:13 UTC https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374364499 Hand Eye Coordination Activities For Children https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374366699 This website offers preschool practioners and parents with a list of areas-focused fine-motor activities that promotes children's eye-hand coordination. These activities relate to Lerch, Harold A.'s concept of how children of all ages should be involved in age appropriate developmental motor activities to enhance their fine-motor skills. This is supported by an research journal named "The effect of fine motor skills on handwriting legibility in preschool age children." This research concluded on the fact that children who were exposed to more eye-hand coordination activities is better equipped with pincer-grasping skills, resulting in a more positive outcome in writing skills and legibility. ]]> 2019-08-13 17:41:10 UTC https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374366699 LumiKids Park https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374369331 This App available on iPads and tablets provides children with a multi-sensory experience where they are offered with the experience to play a range of engaging games that enhance the coordinated control of their eye movement with hand movement, together with the processing of visual input to guide the children towards completing the games. This relates to Vygotsky’s original conception of play, as well as the newer research's capture on new societal conditions where children could readily access and engage in new forms of play on digital devices. This is supported by NAEYC's theory on how early digital play will positively impact future employability and economic

effectiveness.

]]> 2019-08-13 17:51:51 UTC https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374369331 Hand-Eye Coordination In Toddlerhood, Preschool Years, and School-Aged Children https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374372756 This webpage provides an insight on the various stages of eye-hand coordination in young children as their ages progress. This description is supported by Arnold Gesell's theory regarding physical development, about the patterns in the way children develop, showing that all children go through similar and predictable sequences, though each child moves through these sequences at his or her own rate or pace. A health assessment was conducted with a range of children with various ages. The results have revealed a sequence of learned postural‐motor, locomotor and eye–hand gripping skills which can contribute to the understanding of brain areas implicated in this maturation process.]]> 2019-08-13 18:08:30 UTC https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374372756 Preparation for Writing: Developing Fine Motor Skills vegetablesoup https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374487623 This resource provides a detailed outline of activities to engage children in different levels of motor development in preparation for writing. These developmentally appropriate activities can help to build children's whole-arm, whole-hands, pincher and pincer coordination in preparation for learning to write. To understand the term 'developmentally appropriate', it is recommended that teachers know the milestones of their children. This relates to Arnold Gessel's “maturational” perspective on child development. He believed that a child's motor capabilities developed as their central nervous system developed. Thus, his theory, along with parts of McGraw's theory, was called 'neuromaturational'. Gessel also developed the 'Developmental Stages', which were among the first milestone. This is supported by a news article titled '

Developmental Milestones: Motor Development'. Milestones provide a framework for observing and monitoring a child over time. A thorough understanding of the normal or typical sequence of developing fine motor allows professionals to formulate a correct overall impression of a child's true developmental status.

]]> 2019-08-14 09:39:43 UTC https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374487623 Outdoor Activities that develop fine motor skills vegetablesoup https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374489047 This web page offers a range of practical life activities or daily routines to help children to strengthen their fine motor skills in a natural environment. During sand play, many teachers didn't realise that when children are manipulating the sand between the fingers, it builds on dexterity, and pouring sand from one container to the other gets their forearms moving, which builds strength. This relates to Jerome Bruner's discovery learning theory. Bruner's theory is considered to be fully constructivist in nature. According to Bruner, discovery learning is an inquiry-based instructional approach in which the learner builds new knowledge or skills from prior knowledge and active experience. A news article by The Straits Time Singapore titled 'Outdoor education must be prioritised' stated that it is recommended that teachers integrate outdoor education into the curriculum in an authentic, experiential and enjoyable way for children. Research has found strong correlations between physical motor development and cognitive development. The brain that supports learning is also responsible for physical movement. The prime time for motor development is in the first 12 years of life, beginning with large motor skills such as balancing or walking and moving on to fine motor skills such as drawing.]]> 2019-08-14 09:54:06 UTC https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374489047 Creativity and Fine Motor Skills vegetablesoup https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374489679 This web page provides a collection of family-friendly activities that are easy to set up and promotes a whole range of skills. These activities allow the strengthening of fine muscles, practicing of co-ordination and developing eye-hand co-ordination by using simple, everyday materials and a bit of creative fun. This relates to Gunilla Lindqvist's creative pedagogy of play, with its emphasis on the creative quality of play. Lindqvist’s approach to joint adult-child play is a significant contribution because the adult-child joint play of her pedagogy of creative play can potentially benefit children and may potentially benefit adults, both teachers and researchers, as well. This is supported a research paper on how imaginative and creative constructive play, were used to understand more about children's fine and gross motor development. Results were collated and the research has concluded that spending a large amount of time in creative play benefits a child's physical development. ]]> 2019-08-14 10:00:56 UTC https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374489679 Introduction to Writing Video vegetablesoup https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374498093 2019-08-14 11:14:28 UTC https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374498093 Dictation vegetablesoup https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374498724 This resource offers a range of techniques on dictation that teachers can use in their class. Dictation helps a child to build a range of skills, including literacy and abstract thinking abilities while helping to fulfil early learning standards. This relates to Lev Vygotsky's on social-cultural theory. Story dictation provides opportunities for children to engage in communications which enables them to construct vocabulary knowledge, supports their vocabulary acquisition and lexical network building when a theme-based curriculum is used. This is supported by Tanya Christ, Christine Wang and Ming Ming Chiub's research paper on how young children's vocabulary development can be supported through engaging dictation activities. It is recommended that teachers create opportunities for children to apply newly learned vocabulary in meaningful contexts is an important aspect of supporting vocabulary development.]]> 2019-08-14 11:20:15 UTC https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374498724 Vocabulary Learning in the Early Years vegetablesoup https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374502880 This document has included a variety of approaches to how children can learn vocabulary effectively and apply that knowledge in their writing. It helps them to be able to write more interestingly, and to explain themselves to other people. This relates to Ernst Von Glasersfeld's constructivist approach to learning. He stated that constructivism is an approach to teaching and learning based on the premise that cognition is the result of "mental construction. For example, children learn by fitting new information together with what they already know. This is supported by a study which had examined the importance of cognitive factors such as working memory, vocabulary knowledge, general cognitive ability, and reading skills, in accounting for differences in the rate of progress made by children in the development of emergent writing skills. ]]> 2019-08-14 11:52:23 UTC https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374502880 Improving Children’s Vocabulary Knowledge vegetablesoup https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374504596 This resource offers strategies for enhancing children’s vocabulary development through reading aloud activities and everyday conversations that children have with one another as well as with adults. Engagement in read-aloud would provide an important mechanism by which to
stimulate children’s vocabulary skills. This relates to Jean Piaget's theory on the child’s constant interaction with the outside world. According to Piaget, the child continuously ‘accommodates’ the world by adjusting to meet its demands, and then ‘assimilates’ new situations by working out how any new knowledge fits with what is already understood. A report titled "Parents' views on reading aloud to their children: beyond the early years" offers an insight about how reading aloud supports the development of a range of reading and cognitive skills, provides a valuable opportunity for focused interaction between the adults and children, and enhances children's attitudes toward learning vocabulary.]]> 2019-08-14 12:08:20 UTC https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374504596 101 Ideas For Developing Fine Motor Skills And Hand-Eye Coordination https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374538386 This resource provides a list of explicit activities to be carried out with children to develop their eye hand coordination and fine motor skills. This relates to the reflex-to-voluntary behavior model of development concept, which is supported by Wilson P. Tanner, David M. Green, and John A. Swets's signal detection theory, which described children's eyes as receptors to perceive first hand information, that give out signals to the brains, and coordinate with the hands to work together to complete activities mentioned in the document below. ]]> 2019-08-14 14:29:58 UTC https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/374538386 Eye-Hand Coordination and Handwriting https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/375364204 2019-08-19 10:13:25 UTC https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/375364204 Favourite Resource vegetablesoup https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/375365676 Under Fine Motor Skills, AppCrayon is our favourite application. ]]> 2019-08-19 10:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/vegetablesoup/yumyumdelicious/wish/375365676