Outdoor and Indoor

Play Spaces

Toys

Literacy Learning

and Storybook Reading

Definition of Play

Social and Cognitive Levels of

Play

Sensitive Interactions

Transitions/Schedules

and Routines

Adult Involvement and Roles

and Guidance

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500 500 500 500 500

Explain the four play zones for indoor play (include how they relate to each other and examples of learning

centres that could be included in each zone).

Explain with examples two elementsfor consideration in an early childhood

classroom (Designs for Living).

Describe three play zones appropriate for outdoor play (think

of the Playground checklist).

Describe four of the seven learning centres typically

available in an early childhood classroom.

Identify three criteria for assessing children’s toys and

provide specific examples to illustrate how you

would apply the criteria?

What are environmental print and book print?

Identify and explain with examples three criteria for choosing good children’s literature.

Describe a practice you would use •to introduce a book to children•during the storybook reading•after the storybook reading.

Fully explain three benefits of reading aloud to children(according to Trelease).

What literacy developmental milestones do children achieve at the following ages(identify one for each age group):

•infants•toddlers•preschoolers•school age

Identify and explain, with examples, three skills children learn through

play (Crowther).

Choose one aspect of the classic definition of play by Rubin, Fein, and Vandenberg. Provide an example of

play to illustrate that aspect.

Describe one of the categories of Parten’s social categories of play.Include a specific example and identify the age group when this

category of play is primarily observed.

Describe one of the levels of Piaget’s cognitive level of play.Include a specific example and identify the age group when this

category of play is primarily observed.

Kyle sits at the table close to the block Centre. He appears to be watching the three boys who are in the block centre as they build a road together for their cars.

According to Parten and Piaget how would you categorize:

•Kyle’s behavriour•The three boys

Describe, with examples, three indicators of how a caregiver can interact sensitively with

children.

Identify three factors early childhood educators

should consider when planning schedules for a typical early childhood

classrooms.

Explain three reasons why schedules and routines

are important in early childhood classrooms.

•Identify a transition time during a typical day in an early

childhood classroom. •Describe two specific

strategies you could use to ease the transition and

•explain why they might be effective.

What is your most significant learning from this course

and why?

Explain four ways that early childhood

educators can provide for children’s

play.

Explain four ways early childhood educators can

become involved in children’s play.

Explain three roles of the adult in

children’s play.

•Describe a guidance/discipline scenario. •Explain what you think

the underlying reason might be for the child’s behaviour.

•Describe a guidance/discipline scenario.

•Identify two strategies that might have

prevented this situation and why.