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We’ve rounded up a set of high-quality play resources for you to explore. The library houses a collection of links that will take you to peer-reviewed publications, videos of play experts, and websites that may be of interest to you.

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Parental Interactions With Latino Infants: Variation by Country of Origin and English Proficiency
Title: Parental Interactions With Latino Infants: Variation by Country of Origin and English Proficiency
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Author/s: , , ,
Publication year: 2006
Link: https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00928.x
Date: 28/07/2022
Volume: 77
Page/s: 1190-1207
Teaching science through play in kindergarten: does integrated play and science instruction build understanding?
Title: Teaching science through play in kindergarten: does integrated play and science instruction build understanding?
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Publication year: 2013
Link: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1350293X.2013.789195
Date: 01/06/2013
Volume: 21
Page/s: 226-249
Music Therapy as an Intervention for Children with Cancer in Isolation Rooms
Title: Music Therapy as an Intervention for Children with Cancer in Isolation Rooms
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Publication year: 1989
Link: https://academic.oup.com/musictherapy/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/mt/8.1.17
Date: 01/01/1989
Volume: 8
Page/s: 17-34
Encouraging Maternal Guidance of Preschoolers’ Spatial Thinking During Block Play

Spatial thinking, an important component of cognition, supports academic achievement and daily activities (e.g., learning science and math; using maps). Better spatial skills are correlated with more spatial play and more parental attention to spatial concepts. Tested here was whether informing mothers about spatial thinking and ways to encourage it would increase the spatial guidance […]
Title: Encouraging Maternal Guidance of Preschoolers’ Spatial Thinking During Block Play
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Spatial thinking, an important component of cognition, supports academic achievement and daily activities (e.g., learning science and math; using maps). Better spatial skills are correlated with more spatial play and more parental attention to spatial concepts. Tested here was whether informing mothers about spatial thinking and ways to encourage it would increase the spatial guidance they provide to their preschool children (N = 41; M = 5.23 years) during dyadic block play. Mothers given such instructions indeed produced more spatial language and spatial guidance than mothers asked to play as usual. In instructed dyads, children also used more spatial language; both mothers and children engaged in less pretend play. Findings offer support for designing interventions to encourage parents to foster their children’s spatial skills.
Author/s: ,
Publication year: 2018
Link: https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cdev.12779
Date: 28/07/2022
Volume: 89
Page/s: 1209-1222
Development of executive functioning in school-age Tunisian children
Title: Development of executive functioning in school-age Tunisian children
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Author/s: , , ,
Publication year: 2016
Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/09297049.2015.1058349
Date: 16/11/2016
Volume: 22
Page/s: 919-954
The contributions of children’s social competence, aggression, and anxiety to their play behaviours with peers
Title: The contributions of children’s social competence, aggression, and anxiety to their play behaviours with peers
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Author/s: , ,
Publication year: 2019
Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03004430.2019.1614570
Date: 21/05/2019
Page/s: 1-11
Symbolic play promotes non-verbal communicative exchange in infant–caregiver dyads
Title: Symbolic play promotes non-verbal communicative exchange in infant–caregiver dyads
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Author/s: ,
Publication year: 2019
Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bjdp.12251
Date: 28/07/2022
Volume: 37
Page/s: 33-50
The emergence of dyadic pretend play quality during peer play: The role of child competence, play partner competence and dyadic constellation
Title: The emergence of dyadic pretend play quality during peer play: The role of child competence, play partner competence and dyadic constellation
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Author/s: , , ,
Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/sode.12445
Volume: n/a
The relationship between symbolic play and language acquisition: A meta-analytic review
Title: The relationship between symbolic play and language acquisition: A meta-analytic review
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Author/s: , ,
Publication year: 2018
Link: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S027322971730045X
Date: 01/09/2018
Volume: 49
Page/s: 121-135
The contributions of children’s social competence, aggression, and anxiety to their play behaviours with peers
Title: The contributions of children’s social competence, aggression, and anxiety to their play behaviours with peers
Abstract:
Author/s: , ,
Publication year: 2019
Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2019.1614570
Date: 21/05/2019
Page/s: 1-11
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