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Sparking Joyful Learning: A Teacher's Guide to Connecting Play and Reader Response explains the connections between play and literacy and provides teachers with resources for building upon children's playful reading responses in the PK-3 classroom
List of contents
Foreword by Karen Wohlwend
Introduction
Jumping into Playful Reader Response
What the Research Tells Us
Bringing it All Together
Igniting the Spark
Chapter 1: The Importance of Children's Literature
Read, Play, Laugh
The Need for Quality, Diverse Children's Literature
Resources
Examples
Final Thoughts
Chapter 2: Putting Play to Work: Implementing Responsive Play in the Classroom
The Space-Time-Materiality Continuum
Key Components of Responsive Play
Final Thoughts: Adjusting Responsive Play to Meet
Your Classroom Needs
Chapter 3: Connecting Playful Reader Response to Classroom Literacy Goals
Connecting to Personal Experiences and Knowledge
Intertextuality
Developing and Practicing Literacy Skills and Strategies
Final Thoughts: (Re)Playing
Chapter 4: Observing, Documenting, and Assessing Literacy Learning
Observing Children's Play
Documenting Children's Engagements
Assessing Learning
Final Thoughts: Self-Evaluation
Chapter 5: Play(ing) Across the Day
Playful Writing
Playing into the Future
Final, Final Thoughts
References
About the Author
About the author
Tori K. Flint is an associate professor of literacy and early childhood education at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and the co-director of the Louisiana Center for Research and Education on Languages and Literacies. She believes that education should be joyful and that we should listen to and learn from the brilliance of children.
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Sparking Joyful Learning: A Teacher's Guide to Connecting Play and Reader Response explains the connections between play and literacy and provides teachers with resources for building upon children’s playful reading responses in the PK-3 classroom
