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The high-performing preschool : story acting in Head Start classrooms / Gillian Dowley McNamee.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xxviii, 161 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226260815
  • 022626081X
  • 9780226260952
  • 022626095X
Subject(s):
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's 372.677 M169 Available 33111008459923
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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 renowned 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. Starting with Vygotsky and Paley, McNamee paints a detailed portrait of high-quality preschool teaching, showing how educators can deliver on the promise of Head Start and provide a setting for all young children to become articulate, thoughtful, and literate learners.

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.

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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