Preschoolers at Play! lets children use prior knowledge to act out personal experiences. This type of play develops children’s social skills, cognitive development, problem-solving abilities, and communication by involving them in familiar dramatic play themes. Your preschoolers will love becoming airplane pilots, beauticians, construction workers, farmers, firefighters, bakers, and more as they engage in these dramatic play activities.

Each lesson begins a list with roles for play scenarios, props, reading and writing props, and print labels that are appropriate in that scenario’s environment. The lists provide the basics for setting up the play scene. A sample introduction allows you to embed explicit language instruction in each theme to include prepositions, pronouns, adjectives, and verbs. The lesson plan also presents a list of vocabulary words for the teacher to model, an alphabet focus for two to three letters, beginning sounds, related literature,  and implementation ideas. The CD-ROM that accompanies the book allows you to conveniently print all activities and props with a simple click. 122 pages. Perfect bound.