{"id":903,"date":"2012-03-10T20:40:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-11T04:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betherebedtimestories.wordpress.com\/?p=903"},"modified":"2012-03-10T20:40:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-11T04:40:58","slug":"work-at-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/?p=903","title":{"rendered":"Work at Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a great website:\u00a0<a title=\"Study: Playing With Your Toddler Can Boost Academic Success\" href=\"http:\/\/ht.ly\/9A5ww\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/ht.ly\/9A5ww<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Currently you will find a study on this website that now gives us evidence for something most of us already knew anyway. Playing with your young children will pay off in future<a href=\"https:\/\/betherebedtimestories.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/blog-children-playing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-909\" title=\"Blog-children-playing\" src=\"https:\/\/betherebedtimestories.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/blog-children-playing.jpg\" alt=\"Work at play\" width=\"276\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a> years. This study focused on toddlers and the same set of children later during their 5<sup>th<\/sup> grade school year.\u00a0 There were a number of interesting findings, but one I want to highlight is the mention of \u201cstimulating activities\u201d with toddlers that were linked to a positive academic achievement later in life. According to this study these activities included:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cencouraging and engaging in pretend play; presenting activities in an organized sequence of steps; elaborating on the pictures, words, and actions in a book or on unique attributes of objects; and relating play activity or book text to the child&#8217;s experience\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So this begs us to ponder: \u201cIs work, play? Or is play, work?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Your turn!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a great website:\u00a0http:\/\/ht.ly\/9A5ww Currently you will find a study on this website that now gives us evidence for something most of us already knew anyway. Playing with your young children will pay off in future years. This study focused on toddlers and the same set of children later during their 5th grade school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,67],"tags":[182,58,183,184,75,89,63,162,94],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-tips-for-reading","tag-academic-achievement","tag-child","tag-child-development","tag-early-childhood","tag-early-literacy","tag-education","tag-reading","tag-reading-to-kids","tag-toddler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/read.betherebedtimestories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}