Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/setting-the-stage-for-literacy-events-in-the-classroom/5012953/
When children are provided with literacy-related materials in their classroom, they often engage in many literacy behaviors. A glimpse in one classroom on several different days yielded many episodes, five of which will be described here.Episode One
"Gotta have this, and this, and I need this, this, and this. Gotta get the eggs. There, the eggs. Okay. Hey! Wait a minute. Gotta have, gotta make, gotta have a recipe."
After placing several containers, a mixing bowl and spoon, and a half-dozen size egg carton full of plastic eggs on the play kitchen table, Daniel dashed off to the writing/drawing center shelves. He stood back for a moment, inspecting the colored paper sitting there in piles. He selected a white piece and quickly headed back to the play house area where he put the piece of paper down among the containers of ingredients (one each labeled flour, sugar, and salt) and his mixing bowl and spoon. He looked across the kitchen to the telephone, and eyed the pad of paper there, before moving to pick up the pencil attached to it by a piece of string. He stretched the string as far as it would go toward the table. "Won't work," Daniel said, as ...