01966nam a2200289Ia 4500 TVU_13721 210423s9999 xx 000 0 und d 1418052965 9781418052966 eng 372.21 V302 Folds, Victoria Three-step tray tasking logic & critical thinking activities for young children Victoria Folds Clifton Park, NY Thomson Delmar Learning 2008 xviii, 173 p. ill. 28 cm Includes bibliographical references Three-Step Tray Tasking: Prompting Young Children's Emerging Organizational Thinking Skills is an innovative text that provides an easy approach to helping young children develop their organizational thinking skills. Using three "trays" that represent a task's beginning, middle and end helps to develop these important skills. Emphasis is placed on small motor refinement and critical thinking skills as children move through a variety of tracing to cutting to assemblage tasks. This text captures a child's interest in working through logical steps toward the completion of a project, challenging their ability to concentrate and attend to a task as well as practicing grasping and controlling tools. Three-Step Tray Tasking offers teachers the opportunity to observe and record authentic assessment as children move through three steps that reveal their ability to handle materials appropriately, complete each stage correctly and develop logical thinking habits. This text reinforces the importance of providing three, four and five year olds the opportunity to engage in meaningful, satisfying work Early childhood education; Early childhood education; Education; Preschool; Creative activities and seat work Victoria Folds Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh