Every book, song, app, art supply, and STEM activity we share is chosen with intention because it is high quality and supports research -
based early literacy practices.
Having those also then in school means that it eases that transition to be able to do those kinds of
early literacy practices like orally formulating characters and co-constructing storylines, especially impromptu storylines where you have to really think quickly about what the story recipient might want the story to be and having to negotiate those storylines.
Laurie Anne Armstrong is the Early Literacy Trainer at Arapahoe Library District where she helps early childhood educators to develop their
classroom early literacy practices and skills.
In this month's Research Files we discuss the findings of a three - year project in New Zealand that included analysis of pretend play — where students give voices to toys, objects and digital characters — and
early literacy practices.
In terms of
early literacy practices, this orally formulating characters (formulating characters through this oral storytelling that they were actually participating in through ventriloquism) is something that we can link to literacy practices, to these early literacy practices of: What is a character?
It includes analysis of pretend play — specifically children giving voices to toys, objects and digital characters — and
early literacy practices.
Basically, we wanted to just find out about
the early literacy practices that were happening there.
Since her graduate training at the University of Colorado where she earned her doctorate in Educational Psychology, Amy's key areas of interest have included the dynamic interaction between children's lives in and out of school settings,
early literacy practices, and the interplay between technology, media, and youth development.