WorksheetsTHE IMPORTANCE OF CHILDERN'S PLAY
Total questions: 5
Worksheet time: 10mins
In a study carried out by Baker with toddlers and young pre-schoolers, she found that children with greater self-control solved problems more quickly when exploring an unfamiliar set-up requiring scientific reasoning. ‘This sort of evidence makes us think that giving children the chance to play will make them more successful problem-solvers in the long run.’
9. Children with good self-control are known to be likely to do well at school later on.
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Gibson adds: ‘Playful behaviour is also an important indicator of healthy social and emotional development. In my previous research, I investigated how observing children at play can give us important clues about their well-being and can even be useful in the diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders like autism.’
10. The way a child plays may provide information about possible medical problems.
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Children wrote longer and better-structured stories when they first played with dolls representing characters in the story.
11 Playing with dolls was found to benefit girls’ writing more than boys’ writing.
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Children wrote longer and better-structured stories when they first played with dolls representing characters in the story. In the latest study, children first created their story with Lego, with similar results.
12 Children had problems thinking up ideas when they first created the story with Lego.
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‘Somehow the importance of play has been lost in recent decades. It’s regarded as something trivial, or even as something negative that contrasts with “work”.
13. People nowadays regard children’s play as less significant than they did in the past.
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