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Texas Child Care, 2001
Presents tips to help early childhood teachers and caregivers teach young children fire safety. Provides checklist for preventing fires in the kitchen, classrooms, and storage areas. Offers suggestions for classroom learning activities and for educating families about fire safety. Includes annotated bibliography of children's books dealing with…
Descriptors: Books, Child Safety, Childrens Literature, Day Care
Jalongo, Mary – Early Childhood Today, 2004
Children's lives are infused with stories at home, at school or the library, and in the media. This article discusses how to harness the power of literature and use it to develop positive character traits in young children. Storytelling is a fundamental way in which human beings process and share events as well as the feelings surrounding those…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Picture Books, Young Children, Story Reading
Saldana, Johnny – 1995
This book is a resource on using drama to enhance the ethnic literacy of children in kindergarten through grade 6 by developing insight into the multiethnic world in which they live. By combining folk literature with informal classroom drama, a hands-on strategy for promoting multiethnic awareness is developed. An anthology of 20 folk tales is…
Descriptors: Children, Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Cultural Awareness
Walker, Carolyn Ann – 1992
A qualitative study investigated one group of non-mainstream (low socioeconomic status) children's use of literacy materials during their free play. Subjects, 17 children, one teacher, and one assistant teacher in one session of a Head Start located in the downtown of a small midwestern city, were observed during seven free play periods over 5…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Dramatic Play, Emergent Literacy, Literacy
Bagley, Donna M.; Klass, Patricia H. – 1994
This study compared the quality of preschool children's sociodramatic play in classrooms that used centers for housekeeping role play with those that used centers for various other types of role play. Classroom play sessions in the preschool were videotaped biweekly over the course of the 1992-1993 academic year. These videotapes were then…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Dramatic Play, Imagination, Interaction
Glover-Miller, Bettye J. – 1983
This study describes a language intervention approach using telephones in a classroom to motivate and facilitate spontaneous oral language in a group of language-delayed kindergarten children. Specific purposes of the investigation were (1) to determine what effect the availability of telephones had on the spontaneous oral language of…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Dramatic Play, Innovation
Kroeger, Janice E. – 1990
This study investigated effects of a nonsexist curriculum on preschoolers' dramatic role play behavior and usage of language and play space. A quasi-experimental design included two preschool groups, one of which received a treatment component that consisted of a nonsexist curriculum. The treatment group included 12 males and 10 females between…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Comparative Analysis, Dramatic Play, Language Usage
Philbin, Margaret M.; Woods, Anna – 1989
Intended to accompany the children's play "The Prince Who Wouldn't Talk" by James Brock on a tour of elementary schools, this guide is designed to help prepare students for the production, stimulate them to new thinking, and create follow-up activities for the classroom. The guide's first section gives a brief history of the Children's…
Descriptors: Children, Class Activities, College School Cooperation, Creative Dramatics
Rinvolucri, Mario – 1985
A collection of 56 classroom games to be used in grammar instruction in English as a second language includes five game categories: (1) traditional, competitive games modified to allow students to work in small groups and show themselves and the teacher how much or how little grammar they know; (2) Silent Way or Silent Way-inspired exercises in…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Difficulty Level, Dramatic Play, Educational Games
Pellegrini, Anthony D. – 1983
Two studies were conducted to determine the effects of specific learning centers on preschoolers' functional uses of language. It was hypothesized (1) that different centers would elicit different functions of language and (2) that contexts which promote fantasy play would elicit more multifunctional utterances than would other contexts. In the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Classroom Environment, Dramatic Play
Ginnane, Patrick – 1978
The primary purpose of this master's thesis is to describe some therapeutic uses of dramatic play with the mildly aggressive preschool child. The child for whom the suggested play interventions are considered appropriate is characterized by sociality and attachment to both peers and adults, and is not chronically aggressive. After the first…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Theories, Classroom Techniques, Dramatic Play
Idaho State Dept. of Education, Boise. Div. of Instructional Improvement. – 1978
This elementary and secondary drama guide contains activities to help teachers make drama more creative and more imaginative and rich for students so that they will have a rich appreciation of and taste for the theatre when they grow up. The many and varied activities described are first categorized into three main areas: awareness, interaction,…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Body Language, Class Activities, Creative Expression
Creative Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1979
Designed for teachers and other adults who work with young children, this manual provides guidelines for designing creative house corner activities. The first chapter examines outcomes inherent in dramatic play. Chapter Two presents practical suggestions for arranging the area and selecting and displaying materials which will inspire dramatic…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Dramatic Play
Rubin, Kenneth H.; Krasnor, Linda Rose – 1979
This longitudinal study of changes in play behavior in preschool children reports decreases in less mature forms of play and increases in more mature forms of play over time. The study was designed to test the assumption that the play of young children develops in a progressive manner. Ten 3-year-olds and ten 4-year-olds were observed during free…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Childrens Games
Koste, Virginia Glasgow – 1978
The processes involved in drama and the dramatic play of children are essentially the same in that they rely on an imitation of nature, involve a transformation of reality through imagination, connect seemingly irrelevant elements creatively, and bring a temporary, limited order to an emotional experience. When child's play is used as a basis for…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Children, Childrens Games, Creative Dramatics