This is a comprehensive guide to the world of cooperative play and games for pre-K-12 learning. It includes a thorough pedagogical rationale and guidelines for practice, a survey of related research and scholarship, engaging anecdotes, illustrations, historical background, and an array of sample games to try. In cooperative games, players win or lose together, sharing the experience of fun and challenge. No one can be eliminated in a cooperative game....

Choose games and activities from 48 themes each introduced by an opening activity and then expanded through fingerplays, language and active games, songs, stories, recipes, books, and more.