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- Play is child-directed, joyful, and voluntary. During play, children are uniquely engaged and motivated, often exploring the edges of their knowledge and abilities. This makes play a unique and powerful learning tool. Play changes and develops as a child grows. The first year of life typically involves sensory play.
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- Unoccupied Play (Birth-3 Months) At this stage baby is just making a lot of movements with their arms, legs, hands, feet, etc. They are learning about and discovering how their body moves.
- Solitary Play (Birth-2 Years) This is the stage when a child plays alone. They are not interested in playing with others quite yet.
- Spectator/Onlooker Behavior (2 Years) During this stage a child begins to watch other children playing but does not play with them.
- Parallel Play (2+ Years) When a child plays alongside or near others but does not play with them this stage is referred to as parallel play.
From three to five years of life, play becomes more complex: children coordinate many physical actions, imagination, and rules in coordinated social play with others. Understand how different play behaviors can facilitate academic learning.
The brief describes the nature of pre-primary services within the broader concept of early learning. We then share definitions of what is meant by play in early childhood, followed by key points of why learning through play builds. of teaching and learning down into the pre-primary level.
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Experts have identified a number of styles of play that children engage in, which are key parts of their development. The 6 stages of play are: unoccupied. playing alone. onlooker. parallel...
- How I (and Many Other Researchers) Define Play
- How Young Children Identify An Activity as Play Or Not Play
- Play-Based Learning Programs Are Often Not Play
I concluded that play is best understood as an activity that is: 1. (a) freely chosen and directed by the players), 2. (b) intrinsically motivated (conducted for its own sake rather than some reward outside of itself), 3. (c) structured by rules within the player’s mind, 4. (d) always creative and usually imaginative, and 5. (e) conducted in an act...
I’ve been wondering how kids themselves, especially young ones, define play. It turns out that there have been quite a few research studies in which young children—usually in preschool or kindergarten—are asked in various ways to distinguish between play and not play. In a review of 12 such studies, Natasha Goodhall and Cathy Atkinson (2019) conclu...
Unfortunately, many educationspecialists who have heard that play is good for children’s learning don’t understand what play is. They develop “play-based learning" programs that violate the first defining characteristic of play because they are chosen and set up by the teacher and are more-or-less imposed upon the children rather than freely chosen...
How children play at different ages. Playing is fun. It is good for your child’s learning and for their healthy development, no matter how old they are. Having a good experience of play helps them develop skills they can use as they grow up and start to make their own way in the world.
Children have a right to play. Play, both indoors and outdoors, makes a powerful contribution to children’s wellbeing, development and learning. In play children can become deeply involved as they take things they already know and combine them in new ways so that their understanding deepens.
