Books 

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• Supporting Play in Early Childhood: Environment, Curriculum, Assessment (Dorothy Justus Sluss, 2015)

  • Primary Ages: Infant-Kindergarten

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• Choice Time: How to Deepen Learning Through Inquiry and Play, PreK-2 (Renee Dinnerstein, 2016)

  • Explains how to set up centers for choice time that foster guided play and promote inquiry, along with ideas for classroom and schedule arrangement and curriculum integration

  • Primary Ages: PreK-2

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• From Play to Practice: Connecting Teachers' Play to Children's Learning (Bush, Nell, & Drew, 2013)

  • Describes play workshop experiences that give educators a deeper understanding of play-based learning and illustrate the power of play to change professional and personal lives. 

  • Primary Ages: PreK-2

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• Purposeful Play: A Teacher's Guide to Igniting Deep and Joyful Learning Across the Day (Kristine Mraz, Alison Porcelli, & Cheryl Tyler, 2016)

  • Written by teachers for teachers, this book offers practical ways to use play and play-based learning in your classroom by offering tips on scaffolding play to promote social emotional development, classroom set-up ideas, and ideas to integrate play into academic lessons. The book also features descriptive examples and pictures from real classrooms.

  • Primary ages: K-2