Dramatic%20Play

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Dramatic Play
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What is It?

• Dramatic Play-
• Children take on make believe roles by themselves
• Socio-dramatic Play
• They are pretending with another

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9 Ways to Foster Dramatic Play

• Support/Time/Place
• Introduce new roles and ideas
• Full length mirror
• Provide props
• Anti bias
• Make written language visible
• Be attentive to childrens interests, feelings,
  concerns
• Provide equipment outside
• Facilitate language development
• Encourage making of props
• Help those having difficulty

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Support/Time/Place
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Introduce New Roles and Ideas
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Full length mirror
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Provide PropsAnti Bias
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Provide Props
Make written language visible
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Be attentive to childrens interests, feelings,
concerns
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Provide Equipment Outside
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Facilitate Language Development
Where are you going?...
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Encourage Making of Props
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Areas of Development Enhanced

• Physical-
• Emotional-
• Cognitive-
• Language -
• Social-
• Creative-

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A Four-Step Planning Process

• I. Provision the environment
• Space
• Materials
• Observe Children
• Doing
• Enjoying
• Talking About
• What Are they
• Inventing
• Questioning
• Understanding

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II. Sustain the Play

• Provide more props
• Ask open-ended questions
• Help them negotiate problem solving
• Observe
• Material to extend their experience
• Opportunities to represent their ideas and
  feelings
• What other activities could extend or branch out
  the ideas you see

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III. Enrich the play

• If interest waning or in need of more complexity
• enrich with props
• new experiences
• (ex. games, field trips, books, discussions)

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Represent the Experience

• Collect and display documentation
• Evolution of the project
• Childrens thinking
• Beginning ideas/actions
• What happened over time?
• How have they changed?
• Summarize what they learned?
• What emerged that may lead to a new theme?

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Values of Dramatic Play

• Practice give-andtake necessary for success in a
  group
• Emotions involved
• Difficult situations coped with
• Acting out problems often solves them
• Opportunities for self expression
• Gains self-confidence

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