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Peer reviewedKirk, Elizabeth W. – Young Children, 1998
Discusses the benefits for children's literacy, creativity, and enthusiasm for classroom activities of taking dictation of preschool children's own stories and facilitating dramatizations of these stories. Considers issues in the process of dictation and dramatization. Describes differences and similarities in children's stories and their relation…
Descriptors: Child Development, Class Activities, Dictation, Dramatic Play
Prentice, Joan L. – Viewpoints, 1975
Observations of a language development program in an informal classroom of a British infant school. (PD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Communication Skills, Dramatic Play, Kindergarten
Peer reviewedSoundy, Cathleen S.; Genisio, Margaret Humadi – Childhood Education, 1994
Describes an instructional approach that encourages teachers to guide children in narrating stories based on actual or imagined experiences, particularly those that transpire in the classroom. Discusses ways of incorporating events from dramatic play and everyday occurrences into storytelling activities and offers a story sampler that exemplifies…
Descriptors: Dramatic Play, Emergent Literacy, Imagination, Language Acquisition
Wason-Ellam, Linda – Highway One, 1986
Describes and provides examples of how storytelling can help develop children's language ability. Argues that the goal is not to teach children language but to create an environment that will allow language learning to occur naturally. (SRT)
Descriptors: Child Development, Dramatic Play, Elementary Education, Holistic Approach
