Preschoolers’ Ideas of What Makes a Picture Book Illustration Beautiful

House, Carolyn A.; Rule, Audrey C.

doi:10.1007/s10643-004-1022-7

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“…Perhaps it had a fairly high rating because mice are sometimes kept as pets. Children tend to like the familiar (House and Rule 2005). Mosquito, cockroach, spider, and centipede had the lowest initial ratings except for skunks.…”

Section: Specific Animalsmentioning

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Changing Perceptions of Unpopular Animals Through Facts, Poetry, Crafts, and Puppet Plays

Rule

Zhbanova

2012

Early Childhood Educ J

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Today's children are often separated from the natural world, developing fear and aversion to wild creatures. This humane education program used curriculumblended science lessons that focused on eight generally disliked animals: bat, skunk, snake, mouse, spider, centipede, cockroach, and mosquito. First and second grade students participated in 6 weekly hour-long lessons that introduced appealing images of the creatures, facts, and poems that presented their lifestyles. Students practiced fine motor skills by making a craft version of each animal. Literacy skills were addressed by analyzing the poems and writing a script for a puppet play that told why humans don't like the animal and how these characteristics or behaviors help the animal survive in the environment. This pretest-intervention-posttest quasi-experimental study had 26 students (16 f, 10 m) in the experimental group and 16 (11 f, 5 m) in the control group. Students rated their liking for the eight targeted animals and four other animals not discussed in the intervention (dog, cat, goldfish, butterfly) on the pretest and posttest. Results showed significant differences for the experimental group for all animals considered together and for the targeted animals as a group. The control group did not exhibit these differences. The results indicate that lessons focusing on ecology and animal lifestyles help improve students' caring for animals.

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Section: Specific Animalsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Changing Perceptions of Unpopular Animals Through Facts, Poetry, Crafts, and Puppet Plays

Rule

Zhbanova

2012

Early Childhood Educ J

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“…The youngest children, infants, toddlers, and preschoolers are often excluded from research on sense of place most likely because they are not able to articulate to researchers their experiences of place. House and Rule (2005) describe childrenÕs limited ability to describe their emotional states because they use words that refer to actions and objects primarily at this age level. However, that does not mean that the design of the child care center is not communicating important information to them which they are receiving and interpreting every time they enter the environment.…”

Section: Sense Of Placementioning

confidence: 99%

Sense of Place in Child Care Environments

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2007

Early Childhood Educ J

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The exterior design of existing preschool environments is evaluated in the context of contemporary writings by architects focusing on creating designs that nurture childrenÕs emotions. Sense of place research is discussed in relation to young childrenÕs experiences. Findings reveal that the majority of sites included in the study incorporated many physical design elements that create a sense of place for children in preschool environments, including small-scale structures, windows, landscaping, natural wall materials, and thresholds. Recommendations for administrators and directors planning and designing a new or remodeled preschool environment include incorporating features that reflect home-like environments with windows, thresholds, and landscaping.

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“…Owens and Nowell (2001) investigate the children's books in terms of visual-text relationship and they found that this relationship is not very strong and visuals are used independent of the text content. This renders it difficult for the child to make contacts with the text (House and Rule, 2005).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

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“…Though the images of the books analyzed in the present study include a physical movement, they include characters not commonly seen in daily life. House and Rule (2005) emphasized the importance of inclusion of a character that can be encountered in daily life in images. However, as the focal point of the current study is folktales, extraordinary situations in the plot are regarded to be normal.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%