In the wild, young animals play to practice and develop skills that will aid them their entire lives. Human children gain many of the same benefits from playing. When children play, they exercise their imagination, problem-solving skills, and many other important mental faculties. Read on to learn more about what types of games and activities could help your child learn to think in new ways.
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Play, Creativity, and Problem Solving
Because children's play is spontaneous and freely chosen, it is often quite imaginative. Indeed, it is sometimes...
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Play and Language and Literacy Development
Through play, children also enhance oral and written language skills. Garvey (1990) suggests that every aspect of...
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Importance of Play
It is easy to forget that much of a child's language develops within the context of play with an adult or with other...
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Play in the Preschool Classroom
Play is a child's primary learning tool (Owocki, 2002) and the most important learning activity in the preschool...
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Characteristics of Social Play
Social development in the preschool years permits young children to include others in their pretend and dramatic play....
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