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Wheeler, Charlene; Blank, Jolyn – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2011
This article documents a first project undertaken by kindergarten children and their teacher in a public school in the southeastern United States. Images, work samples, records of children's comments, and the teacher's description tell the story of the project as it unfolds. The authors provide interpretation of the project events documented in…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Teaching Methods, Early Childhood Education, Field Trips
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Stadler, Marie A.; Ward, Gay Cuming – Reading Horizons, 2010
The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effect of props on children's narrative retells. Forty-two children in two comparable K/1 classrooms heard and practiced the same stories over eight weeks. This study found that the props had a positive effect on the children's use of descriptive language, but there was no effect on the number…
Descriptors: Story Grammar, Literacy, Reading Instruction, Kindergarten