Importance of Play on Children’s Overall

Development

Noven TungalaBEEd – ECEd

PSED 5: Personal and Social Development

Play is also an essential part of their education

because while they are playing they are learning

To occupy oneself in amusement, sport or other recreation

To act To pretend to be To use or manipulate

Source: www.thefreedictionary.com/play

Definitions of Play

Enables children to explore their world Develops social and cultural understandings Helps children express their thoughts and

feelings Provides opportunities to meet and solve

problems Develops language and literacy skills and

concepts.

Why Is Play Important?

PLAY

Cognitive

Language & Literacy

Social

Emotional

Physical

Creativity &

Imagination

Concrete learning and problem solving

through play enhances higher thinking skills

Cognitive Development

Communication Verbal interaction Play with language Experienced with reading and writing

Language and Literacy Development

Negotiating roles, appreciating feeling of

others, gain access to ongoing play Respond to peer’s feelings, waiting for turn,

sharing materials and experiences Experiment with roles of people Experience others point of view

Social Development

Emotional Development

Simplifying events by creating an imaginary character or setting to match their emotional state.

Emotional Development

Compensating for situations by adding forbidden acts to pretend play.

Emotional Development

Liquidating experiences when children repeatedly enact unpleasant or frightening experiences to gain control over the resulting emotions.

Emotional Development

Anticipating behaviors and events by pretending that another character, real or imaginary, commits the act and suffers the consequences when children are concerned with the consequences of disobeying an adult often.

Fine and gross motor development Body awareness

Physical Development

Invent ideas and use imagination in risk from

environment Using imaginations in play they are more

creative, perform better at schools tasks, and develop a problem-solving approach to learning.

Creativity and Imagination

They learn to discover, explore, and challenge the

world

They aren’t just playing

They are learning the life skills they will need to be successful.

Preserve play in

childhood

Isenberg, J. and Jalongo, M., Creative

Expression and Play in the Early Childhood Curriculum, New York: Macmillian Publishing, pg 35-38

http://www.originalplay.com/develop.htm http://www.learningchild.com.au/ccd/play

Sources:

Importance of Play on Children’s Overall

Development

Noven TungalaBEEd – ECEd

PSED 5: Personal and Social Development