How Play Supports Your Child Now and the Years to Come
A: While we often picture a room full of toys when we think of the idea of ‘play’, children actually don’t need a whole lot of fancy toys to engage in play. All they really need is time, space and the freedom to explore ideas that are interesting to them.
A：No matter what the context or the material, when children play, they learn.
A：Play begins early! As soon as babies start to interact with their environment and the things around them, e.g. intently looking at something, touching or putting an object in their mouth, they are ‘playing’.
A：The process of play builds the infrastructure of their brain. Each time your child plays, his brain is working very hard to develop all the essential skills that will have long-term personal, academic and social benefits.
A：It supports all areas of child development including cognitive, physical, social, language and emotional.
A：The benefits are long term.
A：Our role is to support their age-appropriate play and allow them to explore and discover at their own pace.
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- Language acquisition
- Narrative skills
- Phonological awareness
- Print awareness
- Imagination and creativity
- Emotional connection to reading
- Literacy-related play materials
- Social interaction and communication skills
- 對閱讀的情感聯繫
- 與識字相關的遊戲材料
- 社交互動和溝通技能
A：Activities such as pretend play and storytelling allow children to create and share their narratives. They learn to sequence events, develop characters and use language to convey a coherent storyline.
A：They support the development of phonological awareness, including recognizing syllables, rhymes, and individual sounds, is crucial for later decoding and reading fluency.