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Making Play Work in Early Years Settings

Tales from the sandpit

By: Dawn Rigby

Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781529767520
Published By: Sage UK
Year: 2022
Page Count: 160
Publication date: May 16, 2022

Price: $29

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Description

Making a play-based curriculum work in early years settings.

Early Years practitioners have been advocating for play to be at the heart of early years for many years. Now is the time to make this a reality. Using in the moment planning, child initiated play and other strategies, this book supports early years practitioners to enable the children in their setting to choose what they do and how they want to learn.

Dawn Rigby shares her passion for a play-based curriculum, her own setting's journey, what worked and the challenges faced along the way. This practical book:

shares examples of good practice;
gives advice on how to make play the central focus of early years practice;
explores why a play-based curriculum matters;
includes practical support on developmentally appropriate practice.

Author(s)

Dawn Rigby

Dawn-Louise Rigby is an Early Years professional and consultant. Originally trained as a Montessori teacher, Dawn has Early Years Teacher Status, a level 3 in speech and Language development, a Postgraduate Certificate in Education and a Masters Degree from the University of Roehampton. Dawn believes that all those working with children need a good level of understanding of knowledge and theory and that an outstanding practitioner needs to be able to demonstrate this knowledge by putting it into practice.

Table of Contents

The time for play is now

Our journey

Open-ended play

Planning in the moment

Risky play

To intervene or not to intervene

Feelings, nothing more than feelings

Reducing the paperwork

On your marks

The joy of nursery rhymes

Mud Glorious Mud: The mud kitchen

Maths is everywhere

Play partners

Other Titles in: Early Childhood Education | Children's Play | Early Years

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