Although we might think of play as something that students do when they are not learning, this is far from the reality. When children play, they learn, and they do this without the assistance of lesson plans or purposeful teaching by adults (Gehlbach 1986). Teachers can harness the power of play as an instructional strategy in their classrooms. Instructional play is a way to provide an overarching, purposeful structure to games in order to create a specific outcome (Gehlbach 1986).
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