Question

Choose and cite one domain of one child’s development to observe for 15 minutes (physical, cognitive, language or psychosocial).

Specifically observe the aspect of the child’s development you have chosen, recording what you feel to be significant in the child’s behavior. What did the child do that caught your attention? Did the child do anything new, unique or extraordinary in the chosen area of development? Anecdotes are short “stories” identifying the “who, what, when, where, and how” of a significant episode in development. Interpretation is the "why." What story did the child tell you with his or her behavior?

This observation will not involve as much writing as Observation #1. You will not be writing down everything that happens. You will observe and then record a behavior in the chosen area that you consider to be especially noteworthy. All behavior is noteworthy; select a behavior, incident or event that struck you.

Interpretation:

After you have completed your observation, review your notes on what you considered to be significant behaviors pertaining to the aspect of development chosen.

Summarize your observation (this is your anecdote) and offer an interpretation on the child’s developmental level, given what you have observed. You may wish to consult a child development text for review of developmental levels and stages of development.

Answer 1

The school teacher has asked me to improve my child's English. Since a week I am reading out to him English stories and some English poems. Now he has started identifying words and gas started making sentence

Though he cannot make a make sentence which is as it is the book but is trying to complete that. He also identifies and used the same expression such as ' how lovely' ' where is my ball' etc which is there in the book.

I was totally surprised when he was explaining about the story to his friends and was telling them that it is in English and also how story goes. Hence books are beautiful source of language development.