Health_and_Social_Care

1. Asked to select a reading book for a three year old. Describe the features you would want within the book in order to foster a Childs intellectual ability, such as colour recognition and shape recognition' The book I would choose for a three year old. I would want it to be a picture book, with lavish illustration, cheerful colours, large print and a board book. This means light cardboard. It would have a good binding to enable it to stand up to a 3 year old rough handling. The cover would be glossy, bold and bright so the child is attracted and enticed to read the book. The pages would include different textures and shapes and would be boldly coloured using primary colours, red, green, yellow and blue. The book would come with bricks. The bricks would be simple shapes for example circles, squares, rectangles and triangles. This would enable the child to build simple animals, houses and trees etc. Accompanying the book would be a soft dog attached as he would be the main character in the book. A small sound chip would be included to make animal noises at certain touch points throughout the book. The story would include counting different animals on each page and helping the lost dog get home. (The story would depend on the Childs interest). 2. How would you design a book' Describe the layout in terms of language, images and colours. The book would be small enough enabling the child to be able to hold and turn the pages and not to heavy. There would be limited, large simple text short sentences and keywords on each page. These help to maintain interest. By using sentences and illustration with a low level of complexity that explain the motivation between actions shown on each page. The illustrations would be simple for a three year old to recognise and would be boldly coloured using primary colours green, red, yellow and blue. By using different textures for some of the different illustrations this would allow the child to touch and feel the book. The text would be large and the key words in the text would be bold enabling them to stand out. Allowing early recognition of certain words for example one, two and three. The words would rhyme and be repetitive this helps the child to learn more quickly. In addition, I would ensure that the text, layout and background (including the colour of the paper) was suitable for special needs (dyslexia and dyspraxia). 3. Explain how the proposed book would assist the Childs overall development' The book would assist in interactive communication between the reader and the child. The reader would talk to the child about the story, pictures and words. This develops language and comprehension skills. The child is able to practise the sounds of the words this leads to phonics comprehension and fluency. The books key words would encourage the child with language using simple sentencing and word order. The book would develop recognition of numbers, shapes and develop early reading skills. It would build the child’s gross and fine motor skills as there are bricks for the child to build simple animals, houses and trees. The book is multi sensory the child is able to see and feel the illustrations, and smell and touch the pages. Most importantly it would develop an interest in book allowing for a lifetime of learning.