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Wessel-Powell, Christy; Buchholz, Beth A.; DeHart, Jason; Frye, Elizabeth M.; Ward, Devery; Vander Zanden, Sarah; Campbell, Elizabeth – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2023
Although isolating, lockdown also created unexpected opportunities for connection and inspiration. This article describes the lockdown literacies of a sibling pair, Marco and Mara, as they wrote digital texts/books for Literacy-Cast, a virtual, interactive literacy space offered by Appalachian State University from March 2020-present. Since…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Electronic Books, Literacy
Schmidt, Catarina – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2023
The importance of supporting children's reading engagement and reading comprehension from the early years is widely acknowledged, particular for children growing up in areas characterized by socioeconomic challenges. This mission is collectively shared by teachers and librarians, although with differing starting points and responsibilities. This…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Reading Comprehension, Childrens Literature, Disadvantaged
Schick, Adina R.; Scarola, Lauren; Niño, Silvia; Melzi, Gigliana – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2023
Teachers' sharing of picture books is a quintessential activity in early childhood classrooms, and has been found to be predictive of children's language and literacy skill development. Although most research, to date, has focused on the manner in which preschool teachers share text-based books with their students, recent work has recommended that…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Preschool Education, Hispanic American Students, English Language Learners
Adam, Helen; Barratt-Pugh, Caroline – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2023
Research has consistently established the positive impact of sharing books with young children. Evidence suggests several important factors when evaluating book sharing with young children, including the quality of educator practice = and the nature of groupings, as well as the frequency and duration of book sharing sessions and access to books.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Reading Strategies, Books
Undheim, Marianne; Hoel, Trude – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2023
This paper contributes to the contemporary focus on literacy and digital stories in early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions. When a group of young children create an animated story together, they might collaborate, both with their peers and with their teacher. By drawing on social semiotic multimodal perspectives as the theoretical…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Kindergarten, Collaborative Writing
Kesler, Ted; Darrell, Karen; Moss, Yvonne; Pasternak, Jessica; Valco, Angela – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2023
A team of four general education second grade teachers, who work in a neighbourhood state elementary school in a large urban area in the northeast United States, and their staff developer, redesigned their Kevin Henkes Author Study to equally value pictures and design, along with writing. They asked, what narrative understandings do children…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Authors, Grounded Theory, Multiple Literacies
Anderson, Ann; Anderson, Jim – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2023
Educators and researchers consider vocabulary development foundational in young children's language and literacy learning and for academic achievement; adult-child shared book reading is potentially a rich site for word learning and concept development. In this article, we report on how an immigrant father and his four year old daughter, English…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Immigrants
Kotas, Jacqueline; Bridi, Julia; Garrity, Sarah M. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2023
Using data from a 2-year empirical project in an urban school within the United States, this article describes how educators of preschool, transitional-kindergarten and kindergarten (PreK-TK-K) altered perceptions and practices as a result of participating in a purposefully crafted professional learning community using collaborative enquiry.…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Urban Schools, Teacher Attitudes
Brownell, Cassie J. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2023
Drawing from data generated during the 2016-2017 academic year, this study centred on U.S. children's design of two critical literacies compositions--a letter to Congress and a persuasive multimodal text. Situated within an integrated unit focused on (im)migrants, children asked legislators to act on the GOP Administration's proposed border wall…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Language Arts, Critical Literacy, Elementary Education
Hayden, H. Emily; Prince, Angela M. T. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2023
Children's literature is a powerful influence on the social construction of perceptions and narratives, and it is critically important that all children see themselves represented in the books in their classrooms. However, strength-based views of characters with a disability are rare in children's picture books, meaning that children with a…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Picture Books, Childrens Literature
Sherfinski, Melissa – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2023
This paper explores the context of a Kindergarten team in a suburban P-3 school in Wisconsin developing literacy coaching support. Facing recent neoliberal accountability reforms that have greatly expanded teacher competition, dismantled teachers' unions, and added the role of the coach to the school, "confidence" is an issue that the…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Coaching (Performance), Literacy, Self Esteem
Wagner, Christopher J. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2023
Reading identities are the ways that a child constructs the self as a reader across contexts and time. This study examines the impact of language contexts on the reading identities of multilingual children. Participants were ten prekindergarten children participating in a Chinese-English family literacy programme with a parent or grandparent.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Reading, Self Concept, Multilingualism
Cutler, Laura; Slicker, Gerilyn – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2023
Educators and families frequently use children's picture books to introduce young children to unfamiliar experiences, including the start of school. In this study, we examine 52 U.S. picture books portraying the transition to kindergarten. Specifically, this content analysis explores the depiction of kindergarten teachers, including the…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Teaching Methods, Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers
Aarsand, Pål; Sørenssen, Ingvild Kvale – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2023
The article explores the sociomaterial organization of preschool children's digital literacy activities, focusing on how participant positions are enacted and distributed. The data material consists of 70 hours of video-recorded observations in early childhood education and care in Norway. Drawing on Ethnomethodology/conversation analysis (EMCA)…
Descriptors: Participation, Tablet Computers, Early Childhood Education, Child Care
Becker, Mariana Lima – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2023
This case study examines the co-authoring of unboxing videos by one six-year-old, second-generation Brazilian immigrant child and her mother in the United States. These videos were created in response to boxes filled with gifts they received yearly from relatives in Brazil. To understand this mother-daughter dyad and their video production, this…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Video Technology, Immigrants, Mothers