INTEGRATED MANUAL FOR CHILDREN AND PROGRAM FOR EARLY LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Latest programming requirements adopted with the program for early learning and development imposed the need to create reference literature for children, that will provide support for successful implementation of the program in practice. The need of reference literature for preschool children is all great because it as a kind of medium that arouses particular interest among children and has a high cognitive and practical function.
Integrated manuals for children are a significant source of information and acquire knowledge through play and fun and take up a special place in capturing the boundary between verbal and visual communication. They transfer information and create intensive interaction. Manuals for children which includes all text books or materials that are intended for children who follow the program, are an important source of knowledge especially in increased competition of the electronic media and the Internet.
They transfer information in an integrated way, completely different apart from the computer, TV and radio. Thanks to their didactic uniqueness they are in intensive interaction and affect the child's development. They encourage various activities through active thinking, speech and artistic expression, sticking, drawing, and not just passively staining, or copy, which leads the child in a condition of pleasure and enjoying the work and games.
Manuals are "first books" for preschool children. They are usually created for children from 4-6 years of age. Tasks are sorted according to the criteria of complexity and processing of motor skills, perception, quantitative and spatial relationships, identifying sounds in words, numbers, developing self-confidence and perseverance. The manual is intended primarily for children but also as a guide-book for educators, a roadmap for the implementation of thematic contents by the teacher.
According to its concept, physiognomy, structure and content, integrated manual should be compatible with the Document of the standards for early learning and development. Goals, tasks and topics in the integrated manual make the unity. Integrated Manual is a book whose content links all aspects (domains) that influence the development and education of children from all areas and all projected educational topics, so that illustrations and the text as well, are networked in unity and connected with child’s activities from the areas for which the child detects and learn through play.