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Murray, Bruce; Murray, Geralyn – Reading Improvement, 2019
Veteran teacher Rachel Harbison used vivid stories to involve kindergartners in sociodramatic play to motivate reading acquisition. Children learned through staged events that a mischievous Word Queen had planted "tricks" in the alphabet (i.e., the irregularities in English spelling) to prevent children from learning to read. The…
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Reading Motivation, Reading Instruction, Kindergarten