Written to explain why children need to play and offering practical guidance on how to best support children s development through play, this fully updated third edition includes a wealth of new information to reflect recent changes in the curriculum and early years qualifications.

Featuring new chapters on pretend play and the impact of parenting on child development, the book addresses practitioners key concerns through an accessible Q&A format supported with case studies relating to different play situations. It encourages the reader to challenge their own perceptions about play,...

This book explains why children need to play and offers practical guidance on how to best support children s development through play. This new edition has been fully updated to reflect changes to the curriculum and early years qualifications and features new chapters on pretend play and the impact of parenting on child development. Addressing practitioners key concerns through a Q&A format, the book explores why children behave as they do at different ages and stages in their development and shows how play can complement and enhance their social, emotional, perceptual motor and...

Today there are more children than ever before in need of a variety of additional support needs, and many of these children have poor movement as a key contributory factor. Even in children with no specific label, movement is being found to be linked to learning, and educational professionals need to understand what is amiss and how to support children who do not meet their motor milestones at the correct time.

The brand new topic areas featured in this comprehensive and practical new edition include:

• a discussion of terminology and labelling (in...