Spotlight on Young Children: Exploring Play

Spotlight on Young Children: Exploring Play

How can you support children's play, which is an essential part of development and learning? Play helps children learn to understand themselves and get along with others; explore their environment; investigate science, math, and literacy; learn about their communities; and much more. Use the articles in this collection that emphasize the importance of play-from infancy through the primary grades-to support and scaffold children's play and connect play to learning.