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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
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Supporting Preschoolers' Executive Function Skills through Joyful Physical Activities
Satomi Izumi-Taylor; Yuhua Li
Dimensions of Early Childhood, v53 n3 p20-23 2025
Children's executive function skills develop through everyday interactions with adults and others, and they need much extended time to interact with others. One way to enhance such skills is to build their executive function skills through physical activities. Such activities promote children's abilities in social interactions, and they are important to young children because they feel confident and joyous (NAEYC, 2020). Physical activities such as running, throwing and retrieving balls, riding tricycles, sliding, jumping, and chasing others can enhance children's abilities to move from one position to another efficiently with greater control (Bresson & King, 2022; Izumi-Taylor et al., 2023). These activities should be integrated into their daily school lives (August et al., 2023). This article describes the importance of developing preschoolers' executive function skills and of joyous physical activities as well as some examples of such activities. Also, some helpful teaching suggestions are presented.
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Executive Function, Psychological Patterns, Physical Activities, Skill Development
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education
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Language: English
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