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Holmes, Robyn M.; Bant, Christine; Kohm, Kristen – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This project explores children's engagement in play activities and how caregivers supported their children's play during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our sample included six primary caregivers (five mothers and one father) of at least one child attending a private, child learning centre in the northeastern United States. Child participants (four boys…
Descriptors: Play, Parent Role, Preschool Children, COVID-19
Holmes, Robyn M.; Kohm, Kristen; Genise, Samantha; Koolidge, Louis; Mendelson, Drew; Romeo, Lynn; Bant, Christine – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
This study explored the connection between children's language skills, creativity, and play. The participants were 151 (76 boys and 75 girls) primarily middle-income, European American children. Ages ranged from 4 to 6 years. This project employed mixed methods approaches. Children engaged in several tasks. These included: creating a story about…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Creativity, Play, Correlation
Moedt, Kelly; Holmes, Robyn M. – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
This project explored the effects of purposeful play after shared storybook readings on kindergarten children's reading comprehension, creativity, and language abilities. The participants were 42 (26 boys, 16 girls) culturally diverse kindergarten students attending an urban, public school in the northeastern United States. Some children (13) were…
Descriptors: Play, Reading Comprehension, Kindergarten, Bilingualism
Holmes, Robyn M.; Gardner, Brianna; Kohm, Kristen; Bant, Christine; Ciminello, Anjelica; Moedt, Kelly; Romeo, Lynn – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
This study examined the connection between young children's social play, creativity, storytelling, and language abilities. Participants were 56 primarily European American preschool children. First, to assess creativity we asked children to draw several pictures. Children created stories about their pictures during the creative process. Second,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Skills, Creativity, Play
Holmes, Robyn M.; Romeo, Lynn; Ciraola, Stephanie; Grushko, Michelle – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
In this study, we explore the interconnectedness between children's creativity, social play, and language abilities. The participants were 225 (109 girls, 116 boys) preschool children, from diverse European American, African American, and Hispanic ethnic heritages. We assessed the children in three ways. First, each child completed the Goodenough…
Descriptors: Correlation, Creativity, Language Skills, Receptive Language
Holmes, Robyn M.; Romeo, Lynn – Early Child Development and Care, 2013
This study explored the effects of a child's gender and school setting on preschoolers' language abilities (receptive vocabulary), creativity, and social play. The participants were primarily European-American children who spoke English as a primary language (nine children were bilingual), and were from middle income socioeconomic backgrounds.…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Play, Creativity, Preschool Children