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Classroom Implications for Literacy

  • Don't cut games out!!
  • Allow for free play to expand creative thinking
  • Encourage opportunities to pretend and explore

Games with Rules

Group activity that requires agreement on rules and outcome

  • Builds emotional maturity, teamwork skills, and cooperation for a common goal

Play-dough Activity!!

Play Theory

Dramatic Play

1. Functional Play

2. Constructive Play

3. Dramatic (pretend) Play

4. Games with Rules

Uses imagination to

"make-believe"

  • Develops curiosity
  • Builds empathetic thinking, moral reasoning
  • Relies on remembrance of past events & character details

Story acting, event reenactment, simulated journals

Functional Play

Physical characteristics

of objects

  • Develops imagination and builds learning motivation

Raking sand, pegboards,

floating objects

Constructive Play

Smilansky's Background

Building items using

other materials

  • Expands abstract thinking, process-oriented learning

Block towers, sand castles, homemade birthday cards

  • Very little information available
  • Born in Jerusalem, Israel- 1922
  • Child psychologist and researcher
  • Studied children in United States & Israel

Body of Work

  • Twins and their development: The roles of family and

school- 1992

Children of divorce: The roles of family and school- 1992

  • Facilitating play: A medium for promoting cognitive, socio-emotional and academic development- 1990
  • Clay in the classroom: Helping children develop cognitive and affective skills for learning-1988
  • On death: Helping children understand and cope- 1987
  • The effects of socio-dramatic play on disadvantaged preschool children- 1968

Meet the Theorist-

Sara Smilansky

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