Critically analyse the role of play in the early years curriculum, Singapore

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Students will write an individual essay that addresses the following task (2000 words). Choose one of the quotations below. Discuss how the quotation relates to the roleof play in the early years curriculum. In your response you must: Critically analyse the role of play in the early years curriculum. Critically evaluate different strategies for supporting and extending children’s play in the early years. Quotation: From my definition, not everything that children do is play, even thougheducators may label it as such. For example, it is not play when teachers[…] tell children to “play” a phonemic awareness game or require them tosing a scripted letter-sound correspondence song. (Pellegrini, 2009: 134)