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Questions: Discuss the importance of block play and the relationship of block building to skill development. Examine how we can extend block play for children with exceptionalities so they can engage in rich and meaningful block play.
Step 1: Review the following video: Cameron and Alexis Playing with Blocks (4.26)
Step 2: Find moments in the block play video where you notice the children developing their skills. These can include language skills, physical development, social skills, cognitive development, math, science, creativity, empathy skills, emotional skills, etc.
Write one to two paragraphs (six hundred words) noting the stages of block play and the specific skills you observed the 2 children in the video utilizing. Highlight how block play affects the specific areas you noticed in the video. Where possible, use your own examples to support your opinion.
Provide citations from chapter 8 in your textbook to support your thinking. Remember that you must Step 3: Reflect on how early childcare educators encourage skill development during block play. Be specific and list 4 effective strategies that ECEs could use.
Step 4: Conclude with ideas that ECE's could use to ensure block play is inclusive. Offer one idea for each of the exceptionalities listed below. How should the blocks be organized or implemented to support learners with: Social exceptionalities: Physical exceptionalities: Cognitive exceptionalities: Behavior exceptionalities: