Pre-K Stories: Playing with Authorship and Integrating Curriculum in Early Childhood

ISBN-13: 9780807761328 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019

Dana Frantz Bentley; Mariana Souto-Manning; Sharon Ryan

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• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgments ix
• Introduction 1
• Storying the Pre-K East Classroom 3
• The Journey 6
• Part I: “How Do Stories Come into Our Class?”: Laying the Foundations 11
• 1. The Classroom and Its Practices 13
• Small Moments and Everyday Stories Lead to Big Curricula 15
• Building Blocks for Constructing Literacy Curricula in the Early Childhood Classroom 17
• The Classroom and Its Practices: Conclusion 22
• 2. Storying in Play: Investigating the Purpose of Authoring 24
• Making Sense of Play-Based Authorship 25
• Understanding Authorship in the Pre-K Classroom 28
• 3. Investigating the Purposes of Writing and Publishing with Young Children 32
• On the Pressure to Read and Write Earlier and Earlier 33
• Asking Questions: A Pathway for Investigating and Learning 34
• Young Children Speak, Read, and Author with Purpose 37
• Part II: “But How Can Our Stories Turn into a Book?”: Planning and Making 43
• 4. Creative Writing and The Book Project 45
• What the Children Already Knew About Books and Stories 47
• The Authoring Process: Writing The Whole Pre-K East Book 49
• The Book Project: Children as Authors, Play as Authorship 52
• 5. Investigating the Body of the Book: Unveiling Children’s Knowledge About Books and About Print 57
• Honoring Children’s Conceptualization of Publishing 58
• Rethinking the Roles of the Teacher and the Curriculum 60
• Teachers as Learners, Emergent Curriculum as Meeting Expectations 63
• 6. Science, Mathematics, and The Book Project 67
• Science and Mathematics in Paper Airplane Flying and Story Authoring 68
• The Investigation: Reading and Writing Toward Acquiring Information 72
• From Experimenting with Paper Airplanes to Authoring “How-To” Books 77
• 7. Observation, Language, Poetry, and The Book Project 81
• On the Importance of Circles 84
• Children’s Observations: Reading the World 85
• Poetry as a Language Art: Making Meaning and Making Sense Through Art 87
• Reflecting on Children’s Language and Literacy Development in and Through Poetry 96
• 8. Social Studies and The Book Project 98
• How Social Studies Comes to Life in the Pre-K Classroom 98
• Families at the Heart of the Social Studies Curriculum 102
• Authoring Our History as a Community 107
• Conclusion of This Chapter and of Part II 115
• Part III: Reflecting on The Book Project in the Larger Context of Teaching and Learning 117
• 9. Perspectives and Insights on Authorship in an Emergent, Child-Centered Classroom 119
• Exploring Children’s Development of Traditional Literacy Skills 123
• Understanding the Development of a Learning Community 129
• 10. “Look at Us! We’re All So Different!”: Remembering and Reflecting 3 Years Later 134
• References 141
• Index 147
• About the Authors 153