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Enriquez, Grace – Children's Literature in Education, 2022
What can the affective turn mean for literacy educators who believe their work can lay the foundation for a life filled with meaningful reading pursuits, for students who "become" readers and "do" reading? Because reading occurs across and within an elaborate composite of time, space, relationships, histories, discourses, and…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Emotional Response, Reader Response
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Lysaker, Judith T.; Wheat, Jennifer; Benson, Emily – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2010
Research on the relationship between literacy and play has a rich history. Yet few studies have examined children's use of spontaneous play during literacy events as children are learning to read and write. This case study examines the use of play and the quality of playfulness in a kindergarten/first grade multiage classroom during Writer's…
Descriptors: Young Children, Emergent Literacy, Play, Mixed Age Grouping
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Milkie, Melissa A.; Warner, Catharine H. – Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2011
Sociological research focuses on how poverty, family, and neighborhood dynamics shape children's problems, but knowledge about how school is related to children's mental health is underdeveloped, despite its central presence in children's lives. Using a social structure and personality-stress contagion perspective, the authors use a nationally…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Mental Health, Academic Standards, Social Structure
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Coplan, Robert J.; Girardi, Alberta; Findlay, Leanne C.; Frohlick, Sherri L. – Social Development, 2007
The goal of the present study was to explore young children's attitudes and responses to different forms of social withdrawal by eliciting responses to hypothetical vignettes. Participants included 137 children (49 boys, 88 girls) in kindergarten and grade 1 classes (M[subscript age] = 75.94 months, SD = 9.03) in Ottawa, Canada. Parents rated…
Descriptors: Shyness, Young Children, Child Behavior, Foreign Countries