{"pk":28338,"title":"The Influence of Pretend Play on Children’s and Language and Pre-Literacy Skills","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The role of pretend play on children’s cognitive development has garnered interest recently. This study examines theefficacy of a pretend play intervention on the self-regulation and language skills of four- to five-year-olds. Pretend playincludes a pretender projecting a mental representation onto reality. The sample consisted of 60 children who wererandomized into two groups: (a) Pretend play; and (b) Art activities. The intervention included sixteen 30-minute sessionsover 13 weeks, in groups of six children. Each session included: (1) storybook reading; (2) role-playing; and (3) review.During storybook reading explicit phonological awareness and vocabulary instruction were provided for 18 words in eachbook. Role-playing involved giving children props to partake in pretend play. Review consisted of revising the PA andvocabulary of the target words. The improvements that occurred in the children’s self-regulation and language skillscontribute to a better understanding of pretend play in educational settings.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Abstracts-Posters","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0fk2t7vr","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Tanya","middle_name":"","last_name":"Paes","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Cambridge","department":""},{"first_name":"Michelle","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ellefson","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Cambridge","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28338/galley/18046/download/"}]}