Promoting Literacy through Play Environment

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Promoting Literacy through Play Environment

• Do you know how to use items handled to you to
  promote literacy for children in your classroom?
  If not pay attention to my presentation.

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Promoting literacy through play environment.

• Literacy development of children begins before
  formal schooling and is influenced by the
  quantity and quality of literacy-related
  experiences in the home environment.
• Play is an ideal setting which allows the young
  child to practice, elaborate, and extend emergent
  literacy abilities.

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Promoting literacy through play environment.

• Play creates a pleasurable, low risk environment
  in which mistakes are inconsequential and which
  ,as a result, can serve a significant role in
  supporting literacy development , in low risk
  atmosphere children are able to engage in
  emergent forms of reading and writing.

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• Manipulation of the play environment through
  physical arrangement of play centers, inclusion
  of literacy-related materials and dramatic play
  props can affect the quality and variety of a
  childs oral language use, engagement in literacy
  and story comprehension.

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Enriching Play Environment
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Pretend play pictures
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Choosing props

• In order to determine the appropriateness of
  different literacy props we need to ask
• Can the props be used quite naturally and safely
  by children?.
• Is the prop a real item that children might
  naturally find in their environment?.
• Does the prop serve a particular function that
  children may be familiar with in their everyday
  life?.

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Challenges and Recommendations

• Traditional views of play as childrens business.
• Parents and teachers in general dont view play
  as a real opportunity for academic learning (to
  read write) to occur.
• To adjust this perception persuasion,explanation
  and providing more evidences are required in the
  favor of connecting play to literacy .

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On Not Pushing Too Hard

• There is a danger that filling play settings with
  literacy props may shove aside other playthings
  that children might enjoy, prefer and benefit
  from.
• Teachers should avoid becoming too directive or
  too intrusive with play based assessment and be
  careful not to push play out while pulling
  literacy into play.,

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Promoting Literacy through Play Environment

• By
• HAIFA HALAWANI