The aim of this article is to contribute knowledge about challenges to literacy development in a digitalised learning environment, with focus on "pupils in need of special support." The paper is based on a section of my doctoral thesis (Forsling, 2017), centring on how digital learning environments and situations were designed and…

In classrooms where computers are used as tools for text-making, images and photographs from e.g. Google, here called "prefabricated images", can be selected and copied into texts and combined with writing. In this article children's use of prefabricated images as resources for personal texts is investigated with specific focus on…

In modern societies, children are becoming more and more users of a child culture constructed by adults, rather than producers of their own culture. This paper describes a project, implemented in Nordic child care centers and early childhood classes, that provides children the opportunity to narrate and illustrate their own stories, written down…