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Creating Environments for Learning Third Edition Julie Bullard

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Chapter 7

Developing Dramatic Play Centers

Creating Environments for Learning: Birth to Age Eight, 3e Bullard

The dramatic play center enhances children’s literacy, cognitive, social, emotional, self-regulation, and creative skills.

Creating Environments for Learning: Birth to Age Eight, 3e Bullard

Did you know?

Vygotsky (a well-known theorist) considered dramatic play to be an ideal arena for learning self-regulation because:

it is a highly motivating activity to practice rule-bound behavior

the imaginary situation helps children to separate their thoughts and behaviors from what is going on around them

the imaginary situation helps children to use their internal ideas to guide their behavior

Creating Environments for Learning: Birth to Age Eight, 3e Bullard

Development of dramatic play

Children under the age of 2 typically need realistic objects for pretending
Around the age of 2, children begin to use less realistic objects where an item might be a symbolic representation for something else
By the age of 3, most children are capable of pretending with imaginary objects and events even when props are not available
When children become older preschoolers, they begin to engage in sociodramatic play

Creating Environments for Learning: Birth to Age Eight, 3e Bullard

What is sociodramatic play?

To be considered sociodramatic play children must:

engage in role playing pretend situations (pretends to be another person, animal, or object)
make believe with actions and objects
have verbal and social interaction with at least one other person to coordinate roles and the plot
have a play theme that persists for five minutes or more (Smilansky & Shefatya, 1990)

Creating Environments for Learning: Birth to Age Eight, 3e Bullard

An effective dramatic play center:

is located in a well-defined area of the classroom with sufficient space for at least four to six children to play

is often located next to the block center to increase the use of materials between the two areas

contains familiar and authentic materials that allow children to represent their experiences

includes materials that reflect all members of the classroom and represents many cultures

Creating Environments for Learning: Birth to Age Eight, 3e Bullard

An effective dramatic play center also:

contains a variety of props including

literacy and math props

duplicates of popular items

loose parts so children can create their own props

includes a way of displaying and organizing the clothing and props

includes needed equipment

Creating Environments for Learning: Birth to Age Eight, 3e Bullard

An effective dramatic play center is:

dynamic, changing as needed to sustain rich play opportunities

inviting and aesthetic

Creating Environments for Learning: Birth to Age Eight, 3e Bullard

This menu is an example of a way to add literacy to the dramatic play area. What are some other literacy props?

Creating Environments for Learning: Birth to Age Eight, 3e Bullard

Infant and toddler dramatic play

As soon as children begin to walk they need an area devoted to dramatic play.
Toddlers need:

dramatic play centers that children would be familiar with (house area)

realistic props

duplicate items to encourage parallel play and to decrease conflict

Creating Environments for Learning: Birth to Age Eight, 3e Bullard

In this toddler classroom, the teachers combined the media table and the dramatic play area to enhance play possibilities. How would this enrich dramatic play?

Creating Environments for Learning: Birth to Age Eight, 3e Bullard

School-age dramatic play

School-age children continue to participate in sociodramatic play often re-enacting stories, movies, and their own narratives.
The dramatic play center may become a stage or a puppet theatre to encourage these reenactments.
The dramatic play might also become a micro-world.

Creating Environments for Learning: Birth to Age Eight, 3e Bullard

Did you know?

As children engage in dramatic play they can gain and practice many of the skills listed in the common core.

Creating Environments for Learning: Birth to Age Eight, 3e Bullard

Outdoor dramatic play

Natural items and loose parts can enrich outdoor dramatic play.

Did you know?

Outdoor dramatic play increases in length and become more in-depth when an encapsulated space is available (Frost, Wortham, & Reifel, 2001).

Creating Environments for Learning: Birth to Age Eight, 3e Bullard

Changes to the dramatic play center allows children to:

experiment with new roles

explore new scenarios

use additional vocabulary

Children can assist in planning and making the changes.

Creating Environments for Learning: Birth to Age Eight, 3e Bullard

Teachers facilitate learning in the dramatic play area through:

providing adequate time for dramatic play (a minimum of one hour)

planning centers that encourage active engagement

providing rich, shared experiences

building excitement and keeping interest alive through providing a dynamic center

Creating Environments for Learning: Birth to Age Eight, 3e Bullard

Teachers facilitate learning in the dramatic play area through:

introducing materials and teaching mini lessons as needed

assisting individual children to join and sustain dramatic play episodes

enriching the dramatic play by incorporating materials from other centers

meeting the needs of all learners including facilitating children acting out their fears

observing and documenting individual children’s learning

Creating Environments for Learning: Birth to Age Eight, 3e Bullard

Adding the crowns with the large unit blocks encourages children to build a castle for their dramatic play.

Creating Environments for Learning: Birth to Age Eight, 3e Bullard

Superhero and war play

Allows children to:

feel powerful

face their fears

make friends

establish their identity

Banning this type of play often causes children to

become deceptive, hiding their play

declare they are not engaged in superhero or gun play

not be able to work through issues

Creating Environments for Learning: Birth to Age Eight, 3e Bullard

Superhero and war play

There are many strategies that successful teachers use to manage this type of play including focusing on real-life heroes

Creating Environments for Learning: Birth to Age Eight, 3e Bullard

Through dramatic play, children can enact and transform reality, while increasing their cognitive, social, literacy, self-regulatory, creative and emotional skills.