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How Dramatic Play Supports Literacy Development in Preschool?

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  Imagine yourself acting as a doctor or film star. How would you react first, and what would you say? Possibly you need to learn all the tactics and tricks of how they speak and behave. For that, you need to learn new vocab and practice the way they carry themselves. Adults may not have much opportunity to pretend to be someone else in their daily lives, but pretending comes naturally to children.  In addition to that, at Academy in Corpus Christi , children learn emergent literacy skills during dramatic or pretend play, specifically learning about the different situations in which reading and writing may be needed. Let us see how dramatic play will boost literacy development in preschool. Dramatic play motivates linguistic development Dramatic play teaches and motivates expressive language. Children are boosted to communicate their desires to peers and therefore must learn to speak from the perspective of their pretend roles. A dramatic play is a very comfortable place where a child