Running Head: PLAYING AROUND IN SCHOOL

Symbolic play becomes integrated into games with rules, such as competitive board games. Play also becomes more abstract, with an increasing focus on mental and language play. Eight to twelve-year-olds like to invent “riddles, puns, tongue twisters, insults, chants, rhymes, and secret codes that may involve playing with syntax and semantics of language” (Manning, 2006, p.23). Imaginative ... ................
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