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play and literacy  

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  • Learning through play and playful learning are important contributors to linguistic and visual literacy development throughout the life span. It is through the processes of play that linguistic and visual literacy emerge in young children and become refined and expanded upon through adulthood. [Source: Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society; Play and Literacy]

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