{"id":95,"date":"2017-04-04T16:42:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T16:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/?p=95"},"modified":"2017-04-04T16:42:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T16:42:43","slug":"its-spring-time-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/2017\/04\/04\/its-spring-time-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s spring &#8211; time to play!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Read Lab is celebrating the start of a new quarter with a newly published paper on the connection between language development and children&#8217;s verbal play abilities (see reference below). &#8220;Play ability?&#8221; you might ask. Can you measure children&#8217;s play? Well, Read Lab alumni, Sarah James and Andrew Weaver found a way, and they also found that the more clever (and silly) preschoolers got with their play, the stronger their verbal skills were &#8211; so maybe it&#8217;s not all just nonsense after all.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_96\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-96\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/files\/2017\/04\/andrew_playstudy2-300x247.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew (and puppet) playing word games\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/files\/2017\/04\/andrew_playstudy2-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/files\/2017\/04\/andrew_playstudy2-768x633.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/files\/2017\/04\/andrew_playstudy2-1024x844.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/files\/2017\/04\/andrew_playstudy2.jpg 1915w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-96\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew (and puppet) playing word games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Another win for Dr. Seuss!<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article:<\/p>\n<p>Read, K., James, S. &amp; Weaver A. (2017) Pie, Fry Why: Language play in children three to five\u00a0years old. <em>Journal of Early Childhood Research<\/em>. Prepublished February 14, 2017. doi:<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/1476718X16664556\">10.1177\/1476718X16664556<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Read Lab is celebrating the start of a new quarter with a newly published paper on the connection between language development and children&#8217;s verbal play abilities (see reference below). &#8220;Play ability?&#8221; you might ask. Can you measure children&#8217;s play? Well, Read Lab alumni, Sarah James and Andrew Weaver found a way, and they also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/2017\/04\/04\/its-spring-time-to-play\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s spring &#8211; time to play!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1632,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-read-recent","category-recent"],"gutentor_comment":0,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"readlab","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/author\/readlab\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/category\/recent\/read-recent\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Read Lab<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/category\/recent\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Recent Findings and Presentations<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"The Read Lab is celebrating the start of a new quarter with a newly published paper on the connection between language development and children&#8217;s verbal play abilities (see reference below). &#8220;Play ability?&#8221; you might ask. 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