Sparking Joyful Learning - A Teachers Guide to Connecting Play and Reader Response

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

By Tori K. Flint

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Tori K. Flint
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2025
• EAN: 9781475869828
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-6982-8
• No. of pages: 100
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / Learning Styles, Educational psychology, Teaching of a specific subject, Primary & middle schools, Educational: Art & design, Educational: Social sciences, Educational: Arts, general, Educational: Humanities and social sciences, general, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Arts & Humanities, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary