Research shows guided play is the most effective type of play for helping children learn. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...

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“Play” is critically important, and different types of play matter in different ways. Most research on play, historically, has been focused on free play (1, 2). As the name implies, free play is ...

Teaching younger children through 'guided' play can support key aspects of their learning and development at least as well, and sometimes better, than traditional, direct instruction, according to a ...

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