Play provides children with the opportunity to maximize their attention spans learn to get along with peers cultivate their creativity improve their emotional health and gain the academic skills that are the foundation for later learning. Request pdf play learning how play motivates and enhances childrens cognitive and social emotional growth why is it that the best and brightest of our children are arriving at college too . Play learning how play motivates and enhances childrens cognitive and social emotional growth hardcover illustrated 7 sept 2006 by dorothy g singer editor roberta michnick golinkoff editor. Play learning how play motivates and enhances childrens cognitive and social emotional growth editors dorothy g singer roberta michnick golinkoff h rodney sharp professor of education. Play provides children with the opportunity to maximize their attention spans learn to get along with peers cultivate their creativity work through their emotions and gain the academic skills that are the foundation for later learning using a variety of methods and studying a wide range of populations the contributors to this volume