Children Language and Literacy: Play, Story and the Imagination

LITERACY DISCUSSION
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The lesson that I learned is that fantasy play is more than just playing and entertainment for learners. Traditionally, playing is one of the tools used to educate as well as sustain learners, but from the readings, I learned that complexities of language, cognitive, and even motor skills could be developed through playing because of the interactions of the activities with the brain. It is always given that what we do early on affects our behavior, but it dawned on me that fantasy play has certain implications on development and is related to relationship building and solidification of how one acts in society.
The clearest portion of the readings was on the concept of print interviews. From the readings, I understand that it is important that children are well aware of what they write (or draw), and thus it is imp...