The High-Performing Preschool: Story Acting in Head Start Classrooms

by Gillian Dowley McNamee

Book Overview

The High-Performing Preschool takes readers into the lives of three- and four-year-old Head Start students during their first year of school and focuses on the centerpiece of their school day: story acting. In this activity, students act out stories from high-quality children's literature as well as stories dictated by their peers. Drawing on a unique pair of thinkers--Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky and renowned American teacher and educational...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022626081X
• ISBN13: 9780226260815
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.6"