The high-performing preschool story acting in Head Start classrooms /
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 we...
| Main Author: | McNamee, Gillian Dowley, 1951- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
[2015]
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| Physical Description: |
xxviii, 161 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
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| 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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| Item Description: |
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. |
| Physical Description: |
xxviii, 161 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-158) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780226260815 022626081X 9780226260952 022626095X |