Essential Learnings for Playing A

 

Attitudes	Knowledge	Behavior
I can support literacy through children’s play. I can use the environment to support and encourage children’s literacy play.	Play provides opportunities to use literacy-related skills in a meaningful, hands-on way. Symbolic representation is using agreed-upon characters or symbols to stand for something else. Dramatic play helps children acquire the ability to use symbolic representation. Teachers can support and encourage children’s literacy play by: Adding theme-related literacy materials to play settings Modeling how to use these materials Incorporating play into children’s experiences with books	Can describe how children’s play supports literacy. Can design a literacy-enriched play setting. Can give an example of how play can be incorporated into children’s experiences with a book.

  

Vocabulary Word	Symbolic representation
Myth	Play distracts children from learning to read and write.
Using Books with Children	Using books to create play opportunities
Predictor	N/A

 

Guest Faculty:

Jim Christie

Website Activities:

Video Focus - Literacy and Play

Discussion Question - Share ideas for how you explain to parents that children gain early literacy skills through play. Include play ideas you encourage paretns to do at home.

Action Plan: Create a text toy set