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Play. The power of imagination to transfor m onself. Play Assignments. Personal Play Story Observation of children at play Child Study Blog Post. PLAY STUDY Review http ://www.thestrong.org/about -play/play- studies TED Talk Pinterest : Pre K-4
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Play The power of imagination to transform onself
Play Assignments • Personal Play Story • Observation of children at play • Child Study • Blog Post • PLAY STUDY Reviewhttp://www.thestrong.org/about-play/play-studies • TED Talk • Pinterest: Pre K-4 • Playful Learning http://playfullearning.net/resources/
What is Play? WHAT MAKES A MASTER PLAYER?
Play Strands • Constructive • Sensory play • Playing with materials • Cooperative • Parallel • Associative • Cooperative • Sociodramatic • Developmental • Incremental • Transformative • Individual
Play Elements Anticipation Surprise Pleasure Understanding Strength Poise
Constructive Play • Purposeful engagement is necessary to reap the benefits of play • Relates to independence • Initiative and exploration with materials • Sensory play • Awareness and knowledge of materials • Use of tools • Fine motor development
Cooperative Play Quality and Attributes of Cooperative Play • Non-social activity is cause for concern at preschool level • Parallel play – limited social participation • Children play near each other with similar materials, but do not influence each other’s behavior • Associative play –a form of social participation • Children are engaged in separate activities, but they interact by exchanging toys and commenting on the other’s behavior • Cooperative play –true social participation • Children orient toward a common goal during play such as acting out a make-believe theme or working on the same product • Games with rules
Sociodramatic Play Quality and Attributes of Sociodramatic Play • • Mature play (Bodrova & Leong, 2007; 2012) • plans play • defined roles • invent props to fit roles • immersed in play – extended time frame • create scenarios • language use
TED.com Pick a TED Talks to Watch! • Stuart Brown • Sir Ken Robinson • Tim Brown • Steve Keil • Isabel Behncke
Plan—Think about play in advance of playing • Roles children play—Actions, language, and emotional expressions associated with a specific role • Props—Objects (real, symbolic, and imaginary) children use in play • Extended time frame—Play that lasts for long stretches of time: within one play session or extending over several play sessions and over several days • Language—What children say to develop a scenario or coordinate the actions of different players, as well as speech associated with a particular role • Scenario—What children act out, including the sequence of scripts and interactions between roles PRoPELS Assess and Scaffold Children’s Make Believe Play
Read –Assessing and Scaffolding Make-Believe Play ppinciotti.com
Play Research ~ The National Museum of Play http://www.thestrong.org/about-play/play-studies Research Groups • The State of Play: Gallup survey of principals on school recess • Crisis in the Kindergarten: Why children need to play in school • School recess and group classroom behavior • Children’s pastimes and play in sixteen nations: Is free play declining? • The importance of play in promoting healthy child development and maintaining strong parent-child bonds