TY  - BOOK
AU  - McNamee,Gillian Dowley
TI  - The high-performing preschool: story acting in Head Start classrooms 
SN  - 9780226260815
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Chicago
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Vygotskiĭ, L. S.
KW  - Paley, Vivian Gussin,
KW  - Storytelling in education
KW  - Education, Preschool
KW  - Activity programs
KW  - Head Start programs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-158) and index; Zones of proximal development in Head Start classrooms -- Acting out stories and the common core state standards -- "Doing stories" -- Beginnings of storytelling and acting -- Changes in development -- Looking ahead to first grade -- Staging stories -- Starting points for teachers -- Teaching friends
N2  - The High-Performing Preschool takes readers into the lives of three- and four-year-old Head Start students during their first year of school and focuses on the centerpiece of their school day: story acting. In this activity, students act out stories from high-quality children's literature as well as stories dictated by their peers. Drawing on a unique pair of thinkers -- Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky and American teacher and educational writer Vivian G. Paley -- Gillian Dowley McNamee elucidates the ways, and reasons, this activity is so successful. She shows how story acting offers a larger blueprint for curricula that helps ensure all preschools -- not just those for society's well-to-do -- are excellent. McNamee outlines how story acting cultivates children's oral and written language skills. She shows how it creates a crucial opportunity for teachers to guide children inside the interior logic and premises of an idea, and how it fosters the creation of a literary community
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