1 Conceptual Playworlds - Selecting the story

There are five characteristics of a Conceptual Playworld.
The first characteristic is selecting a story for the Conceptual Playworld:
• Working with understandings of the context of children’s development and their interests
• Selecting a story that is enjoyable to children and adults
• Building empathy for the characters in the story
• A plot that lends itself to introducing a problem situation to the children
• Being clear about the concept and its relation to the story and play plot to be developed