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Learning activity to assess a preschooler for Social Play


 * Theme: Nursery rhymes **
 * Have a variety of puppets and props available for the children to use. **
 * Break them up into groups of 4 or 5. **
 * Ask them to put on a nursery rhyme puppet show. **

|| Age
 * Stage || Type of Play ||
 * Young Infant || Unoccupied Play || Looking at hands or other body parts, cooing to themselves. Do not seek contact with others. ||
 * Infants || Solitary Play || Play alone totally unaware of others around them. Move quickly from one activity to another. ||
 * Toddler || Parallel Play || Children will play alongside one another but do not interact. ||
 * Early Preschool || Associative Play || Begin to play and talk to each other in dramatic play. No common purpose to the play. ||
 * Later Preschool years || Cooperative Play || Able to take on roles and sustain them for the duration of the play. Children will agree upon goals and roles. ||
 * Preschool and beyond || Onlooker Play || Children are near a group of other children and are following the actions or copying what is happening, however they do not participate. ||