I don't think that necessarily fits for every child. My son role played a lot as a preschooler and he still wasn't that interested in reading fiction to himself for a while. I have a favorite memory of his wanting to play brother bear with me in the pool for hours, he would pretend to be a bear & I would be the mom and have to "find" him. (This was shortly after that movie came out.) He never really got into playing with lego's the way I expected.
I think in his case it had more to do with needing books that both challenged his reading, while not taking too long, and not being too boring. Most early readers are really not great literature and the topics really didn't interesting. Learning all about tigers, or how the earth formed, or spiders he found much more interesting.
Last edited by bluemagic; 09/14/14 04:01 PM.
