Learning Through the Arts
Early Childhood Today | 1/2008
Ellen Booth Church explains how the incorporation of the arts into the classroom help children learn and develop.

Group Time: Sharing Personal Stories
Early Childhood Today | 8/2000
Group time writer Ellen Booth Church discusses sharing personal stories.

Stories That Teach Life Lessons
Early Childhood Today | 10/2004
Jalongo discusses how to share stories with children that build positive character traits. For more information, see the related sub-articles, Helping Families Share Life Lessons in Literature, Storybooks That Teach Life Lessons, and the downloadable PDF, Character Development Age by Age, linked to the main article page.

Staff Workshop Instructions: Promoting Multicultural Awareness Through Dramatic-Play Centers
Early Childhood Today | 11/2004
Seefeldt provides a step-by-step process on promoting multicultural awareness through dramatic-play centers. To conclude the workshop, ask teachers to list other types of dramatic-play areas that could include multicultural props and increase children's knowledge of others.

Building Language & Literacy Through Play
Early Childhood Today | 10/2003
Drs. Bodrova and Leong recommend taking advantage of children's play experiences to reinforce language and literacy skills. For more information, see the related sub-articles, including "When SUPERHEROES INVADE Your Classroom", linked to the main article page.

Staff Workshop Teacher Handout: Language Development Through Telephone Talk
Early Childhood Today | 10/2003
Duncan highlights the innumerable benefits of dramatic play on children, including cognitive development, social development, and language development. Moreover, telephone play helps children develop oral, symbolic, and representational thinking. For more information, see the related sub-article, Staff Workshop/Instructions: Telephone Talk, linked to the main article page.

Activity Plan 2-3: Magic Wands
Early Childhood Today
Children will use imagination and language skills as they engage in fanciful play in this ready-to-use teaching idea for two- and three-year olds. Activity Plan: Dramatic Play.

Group Time: Creating Calm - Dramatically!
Early Childhood Today | 3/2004
Children can quickly shift to a calmer mood when they are given a simple, specific activity that directs their attention and lowers their energy. Several children's activities excerpted from Ellen Booth Church's Terrific Translations.

Physical Development: Developing Motor Skills Through Dramatic Play
Early Childhood Today
Dramatic play offers rich opportunities for developing motor skills in children. Strickland offers advice on various types of plays the should be encouraged for children of various ages.

5 Things to Do With Paper Bags
Early Childhood Today | 9/2003
Several ideas for using paper bags as children's educational tool are presented. Paper bags can be used to surprise and delight children's senses by filling them with a variety of objects of different textures and have blindfolded kids reach into the bag and identify the object they are holding.

Staff Workshop Instructions: Telephone Talk
Early Childhood Today | 10/2003
Several workshop instructions designed to expand teachers' understating of the power of dramatic play in children's language development and to plan environments that engage children in telephone play are presented.

Learning Centers: Dramatic-Play Area
Early Childhood Today | 8/1999
Church offers ways to involve children in creating their own space in the dramatic-play area to share with special friends.