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Graue, Elizabeth – School Administrator, 2009
The traditional kindergarten program often reflected a rich but generic approach with creative contexts for typical kindergartners organized around materials (manipulatives or dramatic play) or a developmental area (fine motor or language). The purpose of kindergarten reflected beliefs about how children learn, specialized training for…
Descriptors: Play, Dramatic Play, Young Children, Kindergarten
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Bowne, Mary; Brokmeier, Sue – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2008
In a South Dakota early childhood program, children and adults in the kindergarten classroom collaborated to build a "classroom zoo" in support of the children's pretend play. Creation of the zoo incorporated information about animals and zoos that the children and their families and teachers located in secondary sources such as…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Dramatic Play, Participative Decision Making, Space Utilization
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2008
"Tools of the Mind" is an early childhood curriculum for preschool and kindergarten children, designed to foster children's executive function through development of self-regulation, working memory, and cognitive flexibility. Activities emphasize both executive functioning and academic skills. One study of "Tools of the Mind"…
Descriptors: Preschool Curriculum, Cognitive Processes, Preschool Children, Low Income Groups
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Moon, Kyunghee; Reifel, Stuart – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2008
This study explores a teacher's understandings of the role of play and her use of play in literacy learning serving children from diverse language backgrounds. The participants in this study were a public pre-kindergarten teacher and her class. Data were collected from interviews, informal conversations, observations, and self-reflexive notes. The…
Descriptors: Play, Creative Activities, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers
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Ahn, Jiryung; Filipenko, Margot – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2007
This study documented the ways in which the spontaneous narratives of a focus group of young children reflected the ways in which these children constructed meaning about their world and their place in it. Participants were six kindergartners who engaged in extended episodes of imaginary, dramatic play and produced complex descriptive narratives…
Descriptors: Play, Dramatic Play, Young Children, Personal Narratives
Neuman, Susan B. – Early Childhood Today, 2007
The early years are a time of joy and a period of great learning for young children. They are beginning to interact with print and experience the delights of being read to. This article presents the experiences of a kindergarten teacher during her class' independent reading time. Aside from just plain fun, children can acquire a wide range of…
Descriptors: Young Children, Emergent Literacy, Written Language, Creative Thinking
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Kraus, Jo Anne – Language Arts, 2006
Playing the Play describes the experiences of a storyteller and teacher of literature who created a literature-based literacy program at Concourse House, a homeless shelter in Bronx, New York, for women and their young children. This program is based on the belief that pleasure is the primary reason children want to learn to read, and that where…
Descriptors: Reader Text Relationship, Young Children, Homeless People, Written Language
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Cooper, Patricia M. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2005
Vivian Gussin Paley's "storytelling curriculum" consists of two interdependent activities, dictation and dramatization. It has long been recognized for its impact on young children's psychosocial, language, and narrative development. As a result of the Bush administration's educational policies, holistic, play-based curricula like storytelling are…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Young Children, Play, Class Activities
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