Children's Play Spaces
Storybook SCCLD features new interactive spaces within the Children's Room to support a child's learning through play - the natural way children learn!
Children need to build essential skills early on to become successful readers. The library provides opportunities that support the five simple practices to get every child ready to read: Talking, Singing, Reading, Writing, and Playing.
In the Storybook SCCLD play spaces, children learn through play using:
- Balance elements
- Hopscotch and other graphics with letters, numbers, and words
- Interactive elements
- Reading nooks
- Slides
- Stairs and accessible ramps
- and More!
Learning Through Play
Active Play
When children engage in balance and climbing activities, they are developing a physical skill known as "crossing the midline" which is the ability to move their eyes or body parts across the middle of their bodies. Active play builds physical coordination and critical motor skills that children need for a wide range of activities, from walking and running to holding a book and tracking a line of text.
Play spaces provide opportunities to develop motor skills with ramps, slides, stairs, balance elements, and more.
Quiet Play and Pre-Reading Activities
On their way to becoming readers, children must first learn that letters and numbers have meaning. Quiet play and pre-reading activities develop comprehension and decoding skills. Listening to stories also improves vocabulary; children who are read to daily hear more than one million words by the time they enter Kindergarten, which sets them up for reading success!
Play spaces help teach letter knowledge and new vocabulary by displaying the alphabet, numbers, and rhyming words. Reading nooks encourage reading, and offer areas to sit and relax.
Imaginative Play
Storytelling and playacting encourage children to explore different perspectives, share ideas, and engage with the world through their own narratives. Imaginative play develops important social skills including communication, problem-solving and cooperation, empathy, and social interaction.
Play spaces invite storytelling with a cast of friendly library characters, vehicles and playhouses, various interactive elements, and a social environment.
Join the Fun
These elements of play are an essential part of children's growth and development. Join us in Storybook SCCLD and encourage your child to learn through play!
