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 | Resources What We Know About Play: - Connection between play and the skill building that is central to developing emergent literacy: check out Emergent Literacy: Writing and Ready by William Teale and Elizabeth Sulzby and "Symbolic Play, Phonological Awareness, and Literacy Skills at Three Age Levels" by Doris Bergen and D. Mauer that appears in Literacy and Play in the Early Years (Christie and Roskos, editors). - Development of appropriate social skills and positive social outcomes: Robert J. Coplan and K. H. Rubin cover this territory in "Social Play", a chapter in Play from Birth to Twelve and Beyond, edited by Doris Fromberg and Doris Bergen à Motor development: See "Physical Activity Play: The Nature and Function of a Neglected Aspect of Play" by Anthony D. Pelligrini and P. K. Smith in Child Development. - Cultural differences in play: Jaipaul L. Roopnarine leads a group that has examined cultural difference in play (e.g. differences in preferences for cooperative rather than competitive activities and differences based on typical play materials available) that can be found in Multiple Perspectives on Play in Early Childhood, edited by O. N. Saracho and B. Spodek. |
| | Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning....They have to play with what they know to be true in order to find out more, and then they can use what they learn in new forms of play. --Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood  | | |
