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Research on pretend play highlights one way children routinely manage multiple activities, as they weave together the here-and-now of everyday activities (e.g., little girls dressing up) with the imaginary activity frames of play worlds (e.g., becoming a princess). Hoyle, 1991, Hoyle, 1993 and Hoyle, 1994 analyzed the communicative practices of her young son and two of his friends (ages 8–9 years old) as they engaged in “sportscaster” play, that is, when one of the boys would start to speak like a sportscaster, offering play-by-play narration of their actions while they were playing some type of competitive indoor game (e.g., basketball, ping pong, or a computer game).