Your Child at Play: Three to Five Years: Conversation, Creativity, and Learning Letters, Words, and Numbers

by Marilyn, PhD Segal PhD, Wendy Masi (Foreword by)

Overview

Here is a wonderful, easy-to-read introduction to theworld of the preschooler, illustrated with more than110 candid photos of real children at play. Children of thisage want to discover how things work, and this book givesyou all sorts of wonderful ways to show them. You'll learnhow to teach the concepts of time and distance throughplay; how to use play-acting, storytelling, drawing andbuilding to clarify the world and its contents; and even howto conduct some exciting scientific experiments. Here arehundreds of play activities that will help your preschoolerexperiment with language and ideas through questions;explore the properties of living and non-living things;develop counting and letter-writing skills; and initiatefriendships outside the family.

Hands-on play activities and topics include: • discoveringhow things work • learning about time and distance• play-acting, storytelling, drawing, and building • athleticfeats and scientific experiments • playing withfriends • reading and writing

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557043337
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	01/28/1998
Series:	Your Child at Play Series
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	7.25(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Marilyn Segal, Ph.D., the noted developmental psychologist, educator, and researcher specializing in early childhood, is the founder and dean emeritus of the Family and School Center at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The mother of five children and grandmother of thirteen, she has written nineteen books, including the Your Child at Play series and In Time and With Love. She also produced a nine-part, public-service TV series, To Reach a Child.

Editorial Reviews

This is the fourth volume of the Your Child at Play series, which has been written in toto by Segal and Adcock, who are associated with the Family Center at Nova University in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (Adcock is also a professor in Colo.) The authors divide the book into five sections, ``Conversational Play,'' ``Discovery Play,'' ``Creative Play,'' ``Playing with Letters and Numbers'' and ``Playing with Friends.'' Each chapter includes helpful ``Suggestions for Parents.'' (The authors recommend, for example, that when children playact, parents either take the part of an appreciative audience or participate, keeping in mind that ``the trick is to participate in the play without taking it over.'') Like other works in the series, this book takes a creative and rewarding approach to playing with children. Macmillan Book Club selection. (January)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

In the fourth volume of their Your Child at Play series, early childhood experts Segal and Adcock cover the ages of three to five years. This extensive look at the preschooler's world offers many excellent ideas for encouraging children's creativity, including strategies that have been successful for other parents. It is divided into five sections: conversational play, discovery play, creative play, letters and numbers, and playing with friends. The text, highlighted by photographs and entertaining anecdotes, it is both stimulating and thorough. Highly recommended. Debra Berlanstein, Towson State Lib., Baltimore, Md.

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