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 All students actively participate in the lesson or play activity. Students and the teacher recognize when someone is not involved. Peers and the teacher make active efforts to include all students.
+==== Play is Essential ====
+Play is the most important tool an early childhood literacy educator can use to encourage intelelctual risk. You need to recreate social situations where students would use words in literary events. When doing read alouds make believe you are different kinds of audiences. Adopt a "newsroom" persona when drawing stories with invented letters.
+Center time also provides opportunities for intellectual risk around emergent literacy practices. You can have restaurants, puppet centers for creative drama, libraries, and post offices. You also want centers where students can play with writing stories and others for letter formation and grapheme mapping.