Early Childhood Educators: Resources for Language and Literary Development

Running head: EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS
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INTRODUCTION
Early childhood education is very crucial and vital for the overall development of the
children in their early childhood days. Early childhood care and education (ECCE) involves
preparing a student for more than a primary level school education. Early childhood care and
education (ECCE) mainly aims at the overall development of a child’s social needs, their
emotional needs, and their cognitive needs in addition to their physical needs. It is very
important, essential, and vital to address these needs of a child in order to develop a strong
and broad foundation, which would help them in their whole life in the learning and well
being process.
In the following assignment, two children objects are being selected by the early
childhood educator as the resources for the children`s overall language and literary
development (Mallan, 1999). Those two resources or objects are “The Very Hungry
Caterpillar” book, which is a very famous picture book, which is designed illustrated and
written by Eric Carle and was first published in the year 1969, by the World Publishing
Company and later by the Penguin Putnam publishing company (Evans, 2009). In addition
to “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” book, another object or resources that were selected was a
green color dress for a girl (Patrick & Mantzicop, 2013).
DISCUSSION
1. How the different physical and aesthetic characteristics of the resources selected that
is the green color dress for girl makes it a suitable artifact for the early education of
the children.
Answer: The bright green color dress for the girls along with the “The Very Hungry
Caterpillar” picture book would make a perfect artifact for the early education of the children.
The green color dress for girls would help to grab the attention of the children present and

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develop a sense of color within the children. In the following artifact, two-color shade of the
color green was used in the dress for the girls. The use of two shades of color would be useful
for the sense of the color and shade among the young children (Olson, 2013).
The second artifact or educational resources used are the “The Very Hungry
Caterpillar”. It is a colorful bright picture and illustration book, which is very helpful in
grabbing the attention of the kids. In addition to all the colorful pictures and illustrations,
“The Very Hungry Caterpillar” book also has small holes in the book, which makes it looks
as if a caterpillar has eaten has eaten his way through the different pages of the illustration
book. There is also an option of buying a different copy of the “The Very Hungry
Caterpillar” illustration book, which has a small squishy caterpillar, which can be pushed
through the holes as one reads the book. This helps to grab the attention of the children in a
fun playful way.
2. The educational potential of the green color dress for the girl and the “The Very
Hungry Caterpillar” illustration book that would make it a valuable learning artifact
for the children.
Answer: The green color small dress for the girls would make a very suitable learning
artifact for the early education of the children. The bright green color dress for the girl would
help to grab the attention of the children and develop a sense of color among the children. In
the following artifact, the two color shade of the green color were present in the dress which
would be very useful for the development of a sense of colors among the children. Although
it is a very early stage, it would still serve as an important and vital stepping-stone towards
the development of the cognitive sense among the children at an early age, which is very