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It is writing time in the kindergarten class. As she does every day, Mrs. Bee (all names are pseudonyms), the teacher, urges her young charges to “think” before they write, to make a “quick sketch” of their idea, and then to write that idea, “stretching their words” and listening to their sounds, bravely spelling the…
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EDRS PRICE MF01/PCO2 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Code Switching (Language); Discourse Analysis; *Dramatic Play; Incidence; *Interpersonal Competence; Mexican Americans; *Preschool Children; Preschool Education; *Pretend Play; Role Playing; Social, , Behavior; *Social Cognition; Spanish Speaking; Success; Videotape Recordings IDENTIFIERS Constructivism; Negotiation Processes; *Scripts (Knowledge Structures)
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This article discusses the developmental sense of children’s seemingly disorganized texts. It is based on a two-year study of eight primary-grade children attending an urban magnet school. The study focused on interrelationships between the children’s creation of written, imaginative worlds and their use of other symbolic media (drawing and talk) and other people (particularly peers).…
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This special issue continues a two-year conversation about a #playrevolution in literacies research, theory, and practice. The juxtaposition of play and revolution is intentional, highlighting the tension between play’s prosocial benefits and collaborative production and the rapid change, uncertainty, and violence in today’s schools, where we desperately need more humanizing elements that build people’s connections…
