What Parents, Caregivers, and Teachers Can Do to Promote Language and Literacy Play
Source: Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall
Topics: Early Years (Birth-5), Nurturing a Growing Reader, Speech and Language Development
- Promote language play by engaging in play experiences with children and by modeling expanded language, language in dramatic play roles, and suggestions for how language can be used in play events.
- Promote literacy play by providing props and materials for dramatic play that encourages the incorporation of literacy behaviors.
- Encourage literacy play by showing approval when children incorporate literacy materials in play.
- Facilitate literacy play by joining in play and modeling the use of literacy materials.
- Promote literacy by planning theme centers that focus on literacy activities.
Excerpted From:
Excerpt from Play and Child Development, by J.L. Frost & S.C. Wortham & S. Reifel, 2008 edition, p. 139.
© 2008, Merrill, an imprint of Pearson Education Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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