Building on her award-winning study (featured in Playing Their approach into Literacies) which emphasizes that play is an early literacy, Wohlwend has built a curricular framework for kids a while three to eight. The Literacy Playshop curriculum engages young children in developing their very own multimedia productions, positioning them as media makers instead of passive recipients of media messages. The aim is to coach young ones to seriously interpret the day-by-day messages they obtain in renowned leisure that more and more blur toys, tales, and advertising.

The first half this sensible source positive aspects case experiences that exhibit how six early formative years academics operating jointly in instructor research teams constructed and carried out play-based literacy studying and media construction. the second one 1/2 the booklet offers a Literacy Playshop framework with specialist improvement and school room actions, dialogue questions, and “technology try-it” sections. This uncomplicated ebook will encourage and help academics in designing their very own Literacy Playshops.

Karen E. Wohlwend is an assistant professor in literacy, tradition, and language schooling within the college of schooling at Indiana college. She is the writer of Playing Their method into Literacies: studying, Writing, and Belonging within the Early youth Classroom.

“Not seeing that Vygotsky have we had a better recommend for play than Karen Wohlwend. Having argued that ‘children play their approach into literacy’ and that ‘play is the earliest type of inquiry,’ I praise the authors of this quantity on not just proving those issues, yet demonstrating how expertise, pop culture, and significant literacy may be woven seamlessly into the early adolescence curriculum.”
—Jerome Harste, collage of Indiana