What are the different phases of instruction cycle?

Play drive: The impulse or need within a child or young person that starts the play cycle.

Play cue when a child signals that they want to play, facial expressions, body language or when a child shows that they want to play with another.

Play return: The response to a play cue, which can come from another person, the environment or from the child playing.

Play frame: The process or space that is created by cues and returns. It's a boundary that keeps the play intact. It begins with the child's play drive and includes all that allows play to continue. It may be as big as a football pitch or as small as a chessboard and the two people playing. As a playworker you can be inside or outside of the frame depending on the level of the playworkers involvement.