Meeting the Early Learning Goals Through Role Play : A Practical Guide for Teachers and Assistants

This text is designed to help teachers and assistants plan and create meaningful role play scenarios that should delight young children, enhance learning and link to the early learning goals.

It shows how to plan, organize and implement role play activities.

The activities have been tried, tested and enjoyed in the busy nursery where the author works.

The book also divides the play scenarios into the DfES stated area of learning (personal, social, emotional, communication, language and literacy, mathematical, knowledge of the world, creative and physical) allowing practitioners to choose activities to suit their needs.The book includes: step-by-step guidance; photographs and plans; a list of easily obtained and inexpensive play equipment; and a planning template for practitioners to develop their own ideas.

It should prove useful to teachers and assistants from nursery classes up to key stage 1.