Full Description
At a time when literacy has become more of a political issue than a research or pedagogical one, this volume refocuses attention on work with young children that places them at the center of their literacy worlds. Drawing on robust and growing knowledge which is often marginalized because of political and legislative forces, it explores young children's literacies as inclusive, redefined, and broadened—encompassing technologies, the arts, multiple modalities, and teaching and learning for democracy, cultural sustainability and social justice. Highlighted themes include children's rights to grow through playful engagements with multiple literacies to interrogate their worlds; adults who expand and inspire children's consciousness and awareness of others and the world around them; the centrality of meaning making in all aspects of language and literacy development; a deep respect for diversities, including languages, cultures, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status and more; and an expansive understanding of the nature of texts.
Contents
Introduction
Reclaiming Early Childhood Literacies
Richard J. Meyer and Kathryn F. Whitmore
Pillar I: LEARNING
Pillar Introduction: We Use a Lot More "Dots" in Arabic than You Do in English: A Learning Language Story
Jerome C. Harste and Carolyn L. Burke
Reclaiming or Reframing? Getting the Right Conceptual Metaphor for Thinking About Early Literacy Learning
Brian Cambourne
Chapter 2 Extension: Moving Toward the Discourse of Meaning-Making
Brian Cambourne and Richard J. Meyer
What Complex Miscues Tell Us About Kindergarteners' Making Sense of Print
Alan D. Flurkey and David P. Schultz
Chapter 3 Extension: Text Matters: Predictable and Decodable Texts
Prisca Martens
Take That Ronald! Disrupting Gender Role Binaries with Powerful Picturebooks
Kathryn F. Whitmore and Christie Angleton
Chapter 4 Extension: Innocence, Intersectionality, and Normativity: Choosing Powerful Picturebooks About Gender Diversity
Scott Ritchie
Toddlers, Touchscreens, and Tablet Technologies: Learning "Concepts Beyond Print"
Karen E. Wohlwend
Chapter 5 Extension: Digital Observers, Explorers, and Teachers in Preschool
Kathryn F. Whitmore and Emily L. Zuccaro
Pillar II: TEACHING
Pillar Introduction: Noisy 'E's': A Language Story about Teaching
Jerome C. Harste and Carolyn L. Burke
"Doin' School in the Orchard": Reclaiming and Nurturing Kids' Connection to Nature Through Ecological Literacy
M. Ruth Davenport
Chapter 6 Extension: A Year of Rich Learning for a Young Child
Christine Sims and Richard J. Meyer
The Search for Joy and the Realities of Wounds in Early Literacy
Krystal Wood-Kofonow and Richard J. Meyer
Chapter 7 Extension: Amy and George: Wounds and Joy in Literacy Lives
Renita R. Schmidt and Meg M. Jacobs
Infusing Meaning and Joy back into Books: Reclaiming Literacy in Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Holly L. Damico, Jack S. Damico, Ryan L. Nelson, Christine Weill, and Jamie Maxwell
Chapter 8 Extension: Beginning the Lifelong Journey of Language and Literacy in Very Young Children
Michael L. Shaw
Pillar III: CURRICULUM
Pillar Introduction: Close Reading: A Curriculum Language Story
Jerome C. Harste and Carolyn L. Burke
Designing Literacy Curriculum: Teaching Literacy as Response to Learning
Kenneth S. Goodman and Yetta M. Goodman
Chapter 9 Extension: Designing Curriculum in Response to Max's and Zachary's Learning
Alan D. Flurkey and Kathryn F. Whitmore
First Grade Children Discover the Power of Expression by Creating Descriptive Drawings
S. Rebecca Leigh
Chapter 10 Extension: Art and Writing in Kindergarten Inquiry
Allen Koshewa
Reclaiming Early Literacies by Learning about Self and Others through Global Literature and Art
Prisca Martens, Ray Martens, Jenna Loomis, Michelle Hassay Doyle, Laura Fuhrman, Christie Furnari, Elizabeth Soper, and Robbie Stout
Chapter 11 Extension: Creating Global Understandings Through Play
Kathy G. Short and María V. Acevedo
Two Curricular Worlds: Home and School
Koomi Kim and Richard J. Meyer
Chapter 12 Extension: Merging Home and School Curriculum with Home-Based Literacy Portfolios
Jane Baskwill
Pillar IV: LANGUAGE
Pillar Introduction: The ABC Snake: A Language Story
Jerome C. Harste and Carolyn L. Burke
"I got Angry Birds in my Story": Reclaiming Language in an ESL Kindergarten
Tasha Tropp Laman and Lucy Jaimes, with Lisa Jones
Chapter 13 Extension: Food Truck Literacies in a Bilingual Kindergarten Community
Caryl G. Crowell
Maybe Henry Did It! Maybe Chester Did It!: Young Children (Re)Authoring Through Postmodern Picturebooks
Lenny Sánchez and Angie Zapata, with Josh Hill
Chapter 14 Extension: Young Bilingual Children Engaging in Book Discussion
Jeanne Fain
Pillar V: SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXTS
Pillar Introduction: Holy Squirrel: A Sociocultural Contexts Language Story
Jerome C. Harste and Carolyn L. Burke
Rhizomatic Possibilities for Writing Processes: Fluid Structures and Components
Candace R. Kuby
Chapter 15 Extension: Noah the Nomadic Diplomat and the Making of a School Sack Lunch
Jennifer Buntjer Merryman and Richard J. Meyer
Writer's Workshop Within the Context of an Islamic School
Amy Barnhill
Chapter 16 Extension: Photos as Bridges into Hidden Literacy Lives
Charlene Klassen Endrizzi
Revaluing Novice Readers: Revaluing Families
Bobbie Kabuto
Chapter 17 Extension: Photographs that Cracked Open Narrow Kindergarten Writing Practices for Children and their Teacher
Kathryn F. Whitmore and Carla Wilson
A Cello, A Plane, and a Garden: Reclaiming the Context of Play with Young Children to Promote Literacy
Sarah Vander Zanden, Sohyun Meacham, Jane Frost, and Jennifer Strange
Chapter 18 Extension: Children Speak for Themselves
Lorraine Wilson
Conclusion:
Second School as a Space for Hope, Power, Vision, and the Literacy Lives of Young Children
Richard J. Meyer and Kathryn F. Whitmore
