Play(ful) Pedagogical Practices for Creative Collaborative Literacy

With the goal of supporting students’ writing and content area learning using play as a pedagogical model, teachers’ action research projects involved kindergarten and grade 1 students collaborating to create texts for a range of purposes. The authors analyzed the project activities for their starting points or motivators, student and teacher roles, and artifacts. The activities took the form of small initiatives, a range of themes connecting...