Creating Language Opportunities During Play-based Learning

• Develop an understanding of how guided play during learning centers is a vehicle for developing cognitive, academic, social, and linguistic skills in young children.
   
• Explore how learning centers are spaces where dual language learners scaffold each other’s language and learning as they work in pairs or small groups.
   
• Discuss how to organize a developmentally appropriate early childhood environment into defined classroom areas with a play-based learning purpose.

Gateways Topics: Cultural and Individual Diversity, Play, Developmentally Appropriate Practice
Gateways Content Areas: (D) Curriculum or Program Design
Gateways CDA Content Areas: (2) Physical/Intellectual