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Pre-K Stories offers a lively exploration of how one classroom community played with and collaboratively engaged in authorship. Through everyday stories, readers are invited to witness and engage with classroom practices that honor young children’s brilliance and build on their questions, interests, and strengths. Weaving together literacy, language arts, social studies, science, mathematics, and more, the authors illustrate how curriculum can be authentically and meaningfully integrated. They also offer a unique perspective on the development of language and literacy practices by framing children’s play narratives as the foundation from which rich curricula can grow. Pre-K Stories allows readers to experience the rich cadence of a classroom while also coming to understand important theories that undergird early childhood teaching and young children’s learning. Book Features: Rich descriptions and examples of 4-year-old children’s authoring and writing processes. Engaging narratives from the perspective of an early childhood teacher and students. A unique perspective on the development of language and literacy practices through children’s play. A view of young children as powerful and capable of coconstructing curriculum with teachers. A dynamic approach that has broad implications for literacy and integrative curriculum practices in early childhood.

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Pre-K Stories: Playing with Authorship and Integrating Curriculum in Early Childhood is a highly readable and insightful book that presents a lively exploration of the co-constructing process of an integrated, children-centered early literacy curriculum. --Journal of Language and Literacy Education

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Dana Frantz Bentley is a pre-K teacher at Buckingham Browne and Nichols School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and author of Everyday Artists. Mariana Souto-Manning is professor of education and director of the Early Childhood Education and Early Childhood Special Education Programs at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her books include Reading, Writing, and Talk and Multicultural Teaching in the Early Childhood Classroom.

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