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  2. Katherine J. Bateman and Ilene S. Schwartz. University of Washington. Abstract : Engagement in strong play skills is important as an outcome by itself, but also as means to achieve other valued outcomes in early childhood development. Yet, children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) of-ten demonstrate challenges in this area of development.

  3. IES Resources for Supporting Student Engagement and Attendance

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    The “basic” texts involved a weekly message every Sunday to families about how important attendance is and different ways to overcome potential challenges to attendance. In addition, schools sent automated same-day texts when a child missed a day of school, which were personalized to include the student’s name and the total number of days ...

  4. Make believe - Wikipedia

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    Make believe, also known as pretend play or imaginative play, is a loosely structured form of play that generally includes role-play, object substitution and nonliteral behavior. [1] What separates play from other daily activities is its fun and creative aspect rather than being an action performed for the sake of survival or necessity. [2]

  5. Everyday Strategies to Help Teachers Improve Attendance and ...

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    at engages students and families and offers enriching learning opportunities. Teachers are esse. ent and conveying the importance of attendance.Here are 4 things you can do:Talk with parents early in the school year or, if possible, during the summer to share the value. Talking points for interacting with families.

  6. Create a Graph Classic - Pie Chart - NCES Kids' Zone

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    Pie charts can be used to show percentages of a whole, and represent percentages at a set point in time. They do not show changes over time. An example using real education data would be if you wanted to show the percentages of the race/ethnicity of public school students across the U.S. for a particular school year. If you want to see what ...

  7. Noting that there is a growing body of evidence supporting the many connections between cognitive competence and high-quality pretend play, this article defines the cluster of concepts related to pretend play and cognition, and briefly synthesizes the latest research on the role of such play in children's cognitive, social, and academic development.

  8. Developing a Dramatic Pretend Play Game Intervention - ed

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    n a philosophy of guided, drama-based, pretend play. As such, I focused on the specific elements within drama-based pretend play—sometimes called drama-based pedagogies (Lee et al. 2015) or sociodra-matic play (S. ilansky 1968)—that would most likely cause change. I began with elements from interdisciplinary theories of art, educa.

  9. List of most popular given names - Wikipedia

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    The most popular given names vary nationally, regionally, and culturally. Lists of widely used given names can consist of those most often bestowed upon infants born within the last year, thus reflecting the current naming trends , or else be composed of the personal names occurring most often within the total population .