The high-performing preschool : Story acting in Head Start classrooms

McNamee, Gillian Dowley 1951- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780226260952 (cloth)
Physical Description: print
xxviii, 161 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword -- Preface - Ch. 1. Zones of proximal development in head start classrooms - Vygotsky's ideas about learning - Vivian paley and zones of proximal development - Curriculum for pretending - Ch. 2 Acting out stories and the Common Core state standards - Standards - Learning: the generative Kind - Ch. 3 "Doing stories" - November stories - Vygotsky and Mrs. Paley review learning in head start - Ch. 4 Beginnings of storytelling and story acting - Day two - Day three - Teaching and learning in storytelling and story acting - Ch. 5 Changes in development - Batman and his dad - Explaining change - Literary community at work - Ch. 6 Looking ahead to first grade - Balanced literacy for preschool and kindergarten - From three to seven: becoming writers and readers - Ch. 7 Staging stories - Becoming more skilled - Understanding teaching - Tomorrow's teaching - Ch. 8 Starting points for teachers - Content knowledge: the imagination in school - Pedagogy: teaching and learning through stories and their dramatization - Understanding young children and assessing their learning - Classroom management reimagined - Ch. 9 Teaching friends - First day in kindergarten - Last day in head start -- References -- Index.