Imagining fairy-tale turrets and fire-breathing dragons, wicked witches and gallant heroes, she’s creating an  (a)    world.

Imagining fairy-tale turrets and fire-breathing dragons, wicked witches and (a)   heroes, she’s creating an enchanting world.

it will have important (a)   s in her adult life.

she’s practising how to  (a)    her emotions through pretence.

It  (a)   s how we develop as intellectual, problem-solving adults

It underpins how we develop as  (a)   , problem-solving adults

Recognising the importance of play is not new: over two  (a)   ago

Plato (a)   its virtues as a means of developing skills for adult life

Whitebread is ............. ........... a worldwide decline in play

(a)  

The opportunities for free play, which I experienced almost every day of my childhood, are becoming increasingly  (a)  

Outdoor play is  (a)   ed by perceptions of risk to do with traffic

parents’ increased wish to protect their children from being the victims of crime, and by the ................. ........ ‘earlier is better’ which is leading to greater competition in academic learning and schools.

(a)  

The type of play we are interested in is child-initiated,  (a)   and unpredictable

Then you as the researcher have  (a)   d

In a study carried out by Baker with  (a)   s and young pre-schoolers

giving children the chance to play will make them more successful problem-solvers ........... ........... ........... ...........

(a)  

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  (a)  

the landscape is very different, with ................... ................ topics such as school starting age.

(a)  

It’s regarded as something  (a)   , or even as something negative that contrasts with “work”.

Let’s not ........... ............... .............. its benefits, and the fundamental contributions

(a)