Encourage cognition and literacy by providing varied reading, writing, and drawing materials and building environmental awareness¶

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Description¶

The article recommends that parents and teachers support cognition and literacy by supplying children with a wide variety of materials and by building environmental awareness. It states: "Parents and teachers can encourage the development of cognition and literacy by providing children with a wide variety or reading, writing, and drawing materials." It adds that awareness of one's relationship to the environment is reflected in children's drawing, and that artwork can unite cognition and literacy.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Access to a wide variety of reading, writing, and drawing materials

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• young children in early childhood and primary education

Target Learning Goals¶

• literacy development
• cognitive development

Affordances¶

• Lowenfeld Art Stages Parallel Piaget Stages

Related Strategies¶

• Teacher practices of behavior analysis, encouraging independent decisions, and providing easy-to-use EF materials
• Literacy Rich Environment
• Family Literacy Nights
• Home-Based Literacy Support
• Parental Modeling of Reading
• Family Literacy Engagement
• Offering Multiple Options for Family Engagement

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Hale, Judy A. (1996). Determining Relationships between Young Children's Cognitive Stage of Development and Art Stage of Development as They Relate to Literacy. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED394938