CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Preschoolers who spend more time engaged in sociodramatic play are better at inhibiting impulses, regulating emotion, and taking personal responsibility for following classroom rules.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sociodramatic play is a way for children to develop social and language skills, by creating imaginary worlds, characters, and scenarios, which relate to the real world (Smilansky, 1968).

Detailed explanation-3: -The benefits of sociodramatic play Sociodramatic play allows children to explore and create new worlds. The possibilities of children’s sociodramatic play extend to exploring the power and utility of literacy for communicating meaning through multiple modes.

Detailed explanation-4: -Preschoolers are known for acting with impulse, so dramatic play is a great stepping stone for learning to self-regulate their emotions and actions. Interestingly, when children assign and accept roles in dramatic play they are motivated to stick to them, thinking of them as rules to follow.

Detailed explanation-5: -Correspondingly, the quality of dramatic play showed to be a significant factor in developing self-regulation among preschoolers (Elis & Berk, 2002; Slot et al. 2017). Also, Mathews (2008) found that there is a relationship between self-regulation, dramatic play, and school readiness.