Serious Fun: How Guided Play Extends Children's Learning (Powerful Playful Learning)

A guide for teachers about the importance of planning learning experiences that integrate child-centered play with rich content-based instruction. Serious Fun emphasizes a teachers’ active role in children’s play in order to guide learning. Organized into two sections, Serious Fun first looks at strategies teachers can use to connect play to learning. The second focuses on playful learning in math, literacy, drama, art, STEM, and outdoors.

• Big Questions for Young Minds: Extending Children's Thinking
• Purposeful Play: A Teacher's Guide to Igniting Deep and Joyful Learning Across the Day
• Where's the Math?: Books, Games, and Routines to Spark Children's Thinking
• Planning for Play: Strategies for Guiding Preschool Learning
• Spotlight on Young Children: Exploring Play (Spotlight on Young Children series)
• Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth Through Age 8
• Nurturing Creativity: An Essential Mindset for Young Children's Learning
• Choice Time: How to Deepen Learning Through Inquiry and Play, PreK-2
• From Play to Practice: Connecting Teachers' Play to Children's Learning
• Making and Tinkering With STEM: Solving Design Challenges With Young Children