Schools need to introduce big books at pre-chool stage for early cognitive development

Schools need to introduce big books at preschool stage for early  cognitive development, suggest research paper authors at conference on library and information science


"Big books are capable of providing one-on-one exciting and emotionally bonding experience for school entrants at the preschool level, provided they are become the part of classroom library and relate to life skills and daily life activities to create self-awareness,  love of books and reading. The use of big books created by the class teachers have been found to wean away toddlers from screen-addiction of mobile which is wrongfully received and leads to social isolation of kids at home and their cognitive and physical decline. Our research as an experimental study proves that te the teacher created big books are more relevant rather than the commercially produced multi-coloured big books having activities, poems and stories," said the lead author Dr Lalit Kishore of the outstanding paper  on the sidelines of the'National Conference on Ranganathan’s Ideas in the Present Context’ held at Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, on March 16, 2024.

The co-author of the paper, Subhash Chauhan, the director of local  Som Gurukul stated on sidelines of the conference, “We have experimented with the web-charting skills at the middle and senior school classes  with reasonable outcomes and the teacher created relevant bog books for preschoolers seem to be downward extension of the skills for linking key visual codes and text  codes to build the contextual  and appropriate level  of vocabulary  or word-bank for children to take intest in reading and information process.”

 

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