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Toddlers: Avoid Chaos By Matching Activities To Developmental Levels, Genan Anderson
Toddlers: Avoid Chaos By Matching Activities To Developmental Levels, Genan Anderson
Genan Anderson
The key to success in caring for toddlers is capitalizing on the knowledge that toddlers will engage repetitively in an activity that is on the edge of their ability to accomplish it with support. A range of activities are presented along with four skill levels on the task plus tips for facilitating the skill for each activity.
Literacy Instruction In Kindergarten: Using The Power Of Dramatic Play, Genan Anderson, Ann Sharp, Debora Escalante
Literacy Instruction In Kindergarten: Using The Power Of Dramatic Play, Genan Anderson, Ann Sharp, Debora Escalante
Genan Anderson
This article supports using dramatic play in the kindergarten classroom to engage children emotionally in the learning process. It uses classroom scenarios to support the role of the dramatic arts to promote oral language development, reading readiness, reading achievement, comprehension, and writing skills. It asserts that early childhood students are best served when sound foundational literacy instruction is playfully presented, practiced in activities such as socio-dramatic play, and enhanced with creative arts.
The Teacher's Role In Child-Directed Play, Genan Anderson, Anita Spainhower
The Teacher's Role In Child-Directed Play, Genan Anderson, Anita Spainhower
Genan Anderson
In the context of a play scenario, the full range of strategies on the DAP Teaching Continuum used by a master teacher to facilitate mature socio-dramatic play is illustrated to the reader. The fluid, intentional movement of the teacher from strategy to strategy in response to the play of the children delineates the role the teacher plays in content-rich, child-directed play.