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Wilson, Ruth – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2007
From adding richness and variety to learning, to redesigning a playground, this highly accessible text will provide early years practitioners with a wealth of ideas on how to foster creative play and learning in the outdoor environment with a focus on interacting with the natural world. "Nature and Young Children" contains many simple ideas on the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Safety, Active Learning, Recreational Activities
Dodge, Diane Trister – 1979
Offered as a supplement to the House Corner Curriculum Manual (HCCM) this trainer's guide for center directors and others responsible for teacher training and parent education focuses on developing and presenting workshops. The guide is divided into five sessions, each of which corresponds to the five chapters in the HCCM. Topics include the…
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Early Childhood Education, Learning Activities, Parent Education

Schuncke, George M. – Social Studies, 1978
Presents basic information for teachers about how to use role-play, dramatic play, and simulations in the elementary social studies classroom. Explains how to proceed through the introduction or warm-up, the activity itself, and the follow-up evaluation. (AV)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Dramatic Play, Elementary Education, Process Education

Haywood, Muriel J. – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 1981
Argues that in planning a suitable environment for dramatic play, the following aspects should be taken into consideration: teacher attitudes to dramatic play, provision of a play-conducive environment, and appropriate selection of space, time, peers, and equipment. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Early Childhood Education, Educational Equipment, Peer Groups

Verriour, Patrick – Language Arts, 1989
Examines connections between children's social pretend play and their improvised classroom drama. Describes similarities and differences between language used to frame social pretend play and language used by teachers and students to frame the imaginary worlds of drama. (MM)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Research, Dramatic Play, Dramatics
Yawkey, Thomas Daniels – 1977
This paper examines aspects of role playing in young children focusing specifically on the importance of role playing, the components of role playing and how to use role playing. The importance of role playing is discussed and several reasons for believing that role playing is related to intellectual and social development and to learning language…
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Early Childhood Education, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
Sharpham, John R. – 1979
Defining creative drama as a teaching process that uses the inherent ability of each person to explore ideas, behavior patterns, and human relationships, this monograph is designed to help teachers create a working environment within which this process can be most productive. Various sections of the monograph provide information about how creative…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Activities, Creative Dramatics, Dramatic Play

Hurvitz, Judith A.; And Others – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1987
Classroom teachers can help children with speech and language impairments to use their language more effectively and with greater variety through activities encouraging and promoting student leadership, social interaction, dramatic play, and nonverbal adaptation. (CB)
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Elementary Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Language Acquisition

Carroll, John – English in Australia, 1985
Provides a framework for planning an approach to text through drama and describes a lesson plan using this approach with "Red Shift" by Dorothy Heathcote. (HOD)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Dramatic Play, English Instruction, Lesson Plans

Korat, Ofra; Bahar, Etti; Snapir, Miriam – Reading Teacher, 2003
Reports on an educational project that focused on the nature of the support one teacher gave to the children in her kindergarten class while engaging with them in literacy play. Contends that the project revealed that young children have their own assumptions about and knowledge of the written language, which they actively use in their play. (PM)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development, Dramatic Play, Emergent Literacy

Perlmutter, Jane C.; Laminack, Lester L. – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 1993
Suggests ways for teachers to support children's literacy development in the classroom's dramatic play center by providing literacy-related props, such as pencils and pads of paper, that people use in real situations. (BB)
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Emergent Literacy, Kindergarten Children, Language Arts
Jacoby, Ruth – 1993
A practicum project was designed to retrain preschool personnel on the importance of indoor play and on their role during play sessions. Workshops and training sessions were developed to examine the physical environment of the classroom, discuss play theories, and review skills that children can develop during play sessions. Pre- and posttests,…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Day Care, Dramatic Play, Inservice Teacher Education
Creaser, Barbara – 1990
This resource booklet focuses on the definitions, developmental stages, and the benefits of socio-dramatic play. The booklet deals with the players, shows how adults can support children's play, describes the play environment, and offers some suggestions for development of curriculum based on play. The booklet discusses children's approach to…
Descriptors: Child Development, Dramatic Play, Early Childhood Education, Educational Environment
Dodge, Diane Trister – 1979
This trainer's guide is designed for day care center directors and others responsible for teacher training and parent education who wish to develop and present workshops based on the manual "Blocks - A Creative Curriculum for Early Childhood." The guide is divided into five sections, called "sessions," which correspond to the…
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Early Childhood Education, Learning Activities, Mathematical Enrichment

Myhre, Susan M. – Young Children, 1993
Discusses the benefits that young children derive from dramatic play and how dramatic play is enhanced by prop boxes (boxes in which are stored objects related to various areas of children's dramatic play such as bakery, repair shop, grocery store, and fire station). Also discusses how teachers can obtain and use prop boxes. (BB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Dramatic Play, Early Childhood Education, Peer Relationship