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 | Resources What We Know About Play: - A study conducted by Jerome and Dorothy Singer in childcare centers serving low income children in New Haven, Atlanta, and Los Angeles found that increasing make-believe play for pre-schoolers improved their school readiness skills. - A study conducted by Case Western Reserve University Professor Sandra Russ as part of a longitudinal project documenting children's creativity over time found that children who showed the most sophisticated, imaginative play as first and second graders were the most creative problem solvers as fifth and sixth graders. Find out more at the next Playing for Keeps national conference in March 2003, at which Professor Russ will be presenting her hot-off-the-presses findings from the next phase of the longitudinal study. - The differences among children in their willingness to engage in fantasy play: Take a look at Jerome and Dorothy Singer's chapter on fantasy and imagination in Play from Birth to Twelve and Beyond, edited by Doris Fromberg and Doris Bergen. |
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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  | | |
