Expanding Language and Reasoning skills
Have children bring in buttons from home and work together in groups to select buttons for each page. Children will develop good reasoning skills as they identify characteristics of each button – it is plastic, it is not big and so on. Have children create “sets” of buttons based on their characteristics, and have them describe each set with two sentences – one stating what it is, and the other, what it is not
These are all plastic buttons and they are not big;
These are all small buttons, and they are not plastic.
For the child with low vision
Young children with low vision may need to learn how to use their vision efficiently.
The book provides children with plenty of experience in scanning, an important pre-reading skill, and
reasoning and recognition based of few visual clues. Some elements of the pictures in book will be more
easily visible to the child while others will not. Through the story, the child needs to learn to make
sense of what they are seeing in the pictures.
Help children develop the capacity to search visually, using their knowledge of the real world.
Give the child real buttons to feel and trace. Draw their attention to the shape – circle, the easiest
shape to perceive. Now, have the child locate the button in each page. Help the child use the words on the
page as a clue to finding the button. For example, in the picture of the button and in the bag, one hand must hold
a button and the other a bag. The child needs to figure out which hand has a circular shape in it to find
the button. Although the button in the shelf is hard to see, the child will figure out where to search and
make a “best guess” which is how children will have to find things in the real world.
