Cognitive Development with Books and Shared Reading

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Cognitive Development with Books and Shared
Reading
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• From the moment they are born children are
  immersed in a highly social world. Parents,
  siblings, teachers and classmates, are not the
  only people as part of their social world but it
  also includes objects and values that are part of
  their culture each day. A childs cognitive
  growth and development is a context of all these
  things.
• However, they are not little adults and still
  display many cognitive limitations despite huge
  cognitive gains in the preschool years. Teachers
  play an important role in preschoolers cognitive
  development as part of their social environment.
  Teachers can best support preschoolers in their
  cognitive growth by understanding their advances
  and limitations in thinking in the Top Pre
  Schools in Delhi.

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• Reading quality childrens books that promote
  aspects of cognition such as reasoning and
  problem solving, symbolic play, metacognitive
  knowledge, memory and social cognition is one way
  for teachers to engage preschoolers thinking
  skills. To encourage cognitive development in
  each of these areas, the teaching methods, book
  recommendations and activities in playschools
  near me can go a long way.

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• Reason and problem solving
• Teachers should pose thought-provoking questions
  as they read aloud to their students to hone in
  on the natural curiosity of 3- to 5-year-olds.
  There are few books which are a perfect
  opportunity to ask children how and why animals
  or people might change. Beyond merely seeing
  superficial changes in the appearance of things,
  a cognitive limitation often displayed at this
  age, teachers should try to help children
  understand the natural causes of phenomena to
  push their cognitive development.
• Using childrens books as an introduction to a
  problem-solving activity is another technique
  that teachers can use to promote reasoning and
  problem-solving in top preschools in Delhi. Using
  only what is given to them, teachers could
  present students with building materials such
  as craft sticks, glue, paper and straws and ask
  them to figure out how to build a house of their
  own.

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• Symbolic Play
• The ability to engage in symbolic representation
  is one of the hallmarks of preschoolers
  thinking. For example, a block may become a
  telephone, or a box may become a car as well. An
  understanding of the difference between what is
  real and what is not is shown by preschoolers,
  unlike toddlers.
• In the preschool years, make-believe play should
  be encouraged by teachers. A good method to
  inspire children to participate in pretend to
  play in new or unique ways is by reading
  stories that show children or other characters
  engaging in symbolic play, since children often
  identify with characters in books.

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• Meta Cognitive Knowledge
• Metacognition refers to thinking about ones own
  thinking. In young children, the ability to
  explicitly monitor their ones own learning, or
  to use mnemonic strategies is rudimentary. For
  example, preschoolers understand that it is
  easier to remember a small list of items than a
  longer one, but would not spontaneously use a
  rehearsal strategy to remember the list. Children
  acquire knowledge of strategies that affect their
  own memory and learning not until beyond the
  preschool years.
• By allowing time for a post-book activity,
  teachers can encourage children to reflect on
  their own thinking and learning in top preschools
  in Delhi. Ask children to draw a picture about a
  time when they learned something new is also a
  way, as also, name one thing that they learned
  from the book. It can help children understand
  the individuality of their thinking and learning
  by writing students responses on a whiteboard.

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• Memory
• Preschoolers memories are affected by their
  prior knowledge at playschools near me. It is
  important to note that a child at this age
  remembers new concepts and ideas more easily when
  they already have a wealth of knowledge about the
  subject. If they are put into a meaningful
  context, or if they are learned through hands-on
  experiences, children ages 3 to 5 will also
  better remember new concepts.
• To help aid students memory formation below are
  some things that teachers can do while reading
  aloud
• Make connections from the story to the childrens
  everyday lives or personal experiences. Teachers
  should ask students to recall and discuss a time
  when they did a particular activity related to a
  book.
• Questions that require children to recall an
  earlier part of the story should be asked.
• Repeat important concepts. Hearing new
  information more than once will help them learn
  and remember it as children learn through
  repetition.

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• Social Cognition
• Thinking about others and social situations are
  called Social cognition. Their understanding of
  how the social world works grow as children gain
  new cognitive skills. They are better able to
  grasp why others behave or feel the way that they
  do by the preschool years as children begin to
  understand the mind as an entity of thought. They
  are limited in their ability to understand the
  perspectives of others even as preschoolers do
  begin to show theory of mind, as this ability
  is often referred to. But, as childrens
  communicative abilities begin to increase, this
  egocentric thought declines throughout the
  preschool years.
• A great way for teachers to promote social
  cognition is through reading childrens books
  about feelings and how they relate to thoughts
  and behaviours.

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• By allowing children to communicate, play and
  logic in ways that were not possible in
  toddlerhood advances in cognitive development
  during the preschool years are the real deal.
  Teachers can promote cognitive growth through
  everyday activities such as story time with
  careful planning and knowledge of cognitive
  development during the preschool years at top
  preschools in Delhi. Opening up a book is similar
  to enhancing a childs thinking as easy as
  that!
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