Video transcript

Adult 1: How are you going to do that?

Child 1: To make it, you fold it and …

Narrator (Catherine Sewell, play specialist): A simple way to support play is to ask open-ended questions, such as, ‘Tell me about what you’ve drawn’ or ‘Tell me about your game today’ or ‘What is this world that you have created here?’

Child 1: I want to use it.

Adult 1: What could you use that for?

Child 1: I’m going to colour in here, and some of it’s a bit tough.

Adult 1: It’s a bit tricky, isn’t it?

Narrator: So questions that allow for the child to talk about how they felt about something, to describe what they’ve been doing.

Adult 1: Oh, what have you put in there?

Child 1: Little, little, little thingies.

Adult 1: Oh wow.

Narrator: And maybe allow them to think of a new way, a new avenue that they might take that play.

Adult 1: Can you tell me about what you’ve done?

Child 2: This is a bit torn so no water can go over it.

Adult 1: That’s fantastic. So that bit stops the water getting in?

Child 2: Yeah. On the sides.

Adult 1: You’re going to do that on the sides? How are you going to do that?