Looking for Learning: Mark Making
Creative Ideas for Incorporating Mark Making into All Child-LED Play
1st Edition
Published on 21. January 2021
64 pages
978-1-4729-6303-1 (ISBN)
Description
Looking for Learning: Mark Making is a full-colour, practical guide linked to current policy and the EYFS framework. Laura England, creator of Little Miss Early Years, uses theory, cases studies, real-life images and accessible ideas to inspire child-led learning using mark making.
This book will help you spark children's natural curiosity in seeing what happens when they make marks with their fingers, bodies and toys, as well as materials from nature and from your art supplies. From drawing around shadows and swirling paint in water, to printing animal footprints, Laura England, creator of Little Miss Early Years, provides a wealth of creative ideas for incorporating mark making into all child-led play, both indoors and outside.
Developing mark making and building language skills are crucial as young children begin to build their confidence in communicating. This dip-in-and-out book is linked to the Characteristics of Effective Learning and presents real-life examples and images as well as practical pointers.
With tips from setting up the environment to the adult's role in this child-led play, Looking for Learning: Mark Making is ideal for all Early Years practitioners searching for accessible ideas for using mark making in their settings.
Looking for Learning books are the number one tool for identifying learning opportunities in child-led play. All four books are packed full of tried-and-tested ideas for indoor and outdoor activities, helpful hints and tips and full-colour photographs. Written by Laura England, known as Little Miss Early Years, these are a must-have for any nursery or pre-school.
This book will help you spark children's natural curiosity in seeing what happens when they make marks with their fingers, bodies and toys, as well as materials from nature and from your art supplies. From drawing around shadows and swirling paint in water, to printing animal footprints, Laura England, creator of Little Miss Early Years, provides a wealth of creative ideas for incorporating mark making into all child-led play, both indoors and outside.
Developing mark making and building language skills are crucial as young children begin to build their confidence in communicating. This dip-in-and-out book is linked to the Characteristics of Effective Learning and presents real-life examples and images as well as practical pointers.
With tips from setting up the environment to the adult's role in this child-led play, Looking for Learning: Mark Making is ideal for all Early Years practitioners searching for accessible ideas for using mark making in their settings.
Looking for Learning books are the number one tool for identifying learning opportunities in child-led play. All four books are packed full of tried-and-tested ideas for indoor and outdoor activities, helpful hints and tips and full-colour photographs. Written by Laura England, known as Little Miss Early Years, these are a must-have for any nursery or pre-school.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4729-6303-1 (9781472963031)
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Laura England
Looking for Learning: Mark Making
Creative ideas for incorporating mark making into all child-led play
Book
01/2021
Featherstone
€16.50
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Person
Laura England is an Early Years teacher with an MA in Education and a committee member of the Staffordshire Early Years Professional Network. She is the author of the Looking for Learning series, writes regularly for Teach Early Years and blogs for a number of educational resource companies. Laura is the creator of Little Miss Early Years and shares activity ideas and practical advice on Facebook and Instagram @littlemiss_ey.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- What is mark making?
- Mark making and writing
- The benefits of mark making
- Mark making opportunities in your continuous provision
- The characteristics of effective learning
- Role play
- Child-led play
- Deconstructed role play
- Small world play
- Role play scenarios for mark making
- Construction
- Large-scale construction
- Construction and mark making
- Nature
- Exploring texture and pattern
- Taking equipment outside
- Early writing
- Mark making with natural materials
- Art
- Combining adult-led and child-led play
- Large-scale art
- Transient art
- Powder paint station
- Inspiring centrepieces
- Technology
- Incorporating technology into your continuous provision
- Mark making with cameras
- Mark making with light and shadows
- Sand and water
- Sand on its own
- Water on its own
- Sand and water together
- Malleable play
- Play dough making stations
- Early writing ideas
- Mark making with play dough and clay
- Making stamps
- Loose parts
- What is a loose part?
- Loose parts and physical skills
- Loose parts and mark making
- Loose parts and early writing
- Further reading
