Look, I Made a Book

Literacy in a Kindergarten Classroom

• Author(s): Nina Zaragoza, Eric Dwyer,
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Pages: 239
• ISBN_10: 082046760X
  ISBN_13: 9780820467603
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Education / Adult & Continuing Education , Education / Educational Psychology , Education / Schools / Levels / Elementary , Education / Experimental Methods , Education / Language Experience Approach , Education / Study Skills , Education / Teaching / Subjects / Language Arts , Education / Teaching / Methods & Strategies , Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General , Education / Teacher Training & Certification , Language Arts & Disciplines / Writing / Composition , Psychology / General , Study Aids / Study & Test-Taking Skills ,

Description:... What does it mean to have high expectations for five-year-old learners? In one of the author's classrooms, children are treated as authors, as world citizens, and as confident, responsible community and family contributors. Kindergartners publish their own stories and keep them on the same shelves as books from libraries and bookstores. In addition to books, these young students also produce their own plays, thank-you cards, and math problems. Zaragoza, Dwyer, and Brownie (the class mascot) invite new teachers along as they take one class of children through a month-by-month journey of authorship, literacy development, poetry, positive interaction, and imagination.
This book is appropriate for both undergraduate and graduate students of education, early childhood, and teachers of English-language learners. It can also be of value to scholars of constructivist and/or critical theory.