Drawing upon theories that reconceptualize toys and artifacts as identity texts, this study
employs mediated discourse analysis to examine children's videotaped writing and play …

It is now some twenty-five years since Literacy Studies took a new direction, turning away
from questions of pedagogy and the psycholin-guistic processes of the individual reader …

In this article, semiotic analysis of children's practices and designs with video game
conventions considers how children use play and drawing as spatializing literacies that …

In this case study, situated in a preschool classroom within an early childhood
Spanish/English dual language programme, we examine how an emergent bilingual child …

Expanding the definition and use of literacies beyond verbal and written communication, this
book examines contemporary literacies through action-focused analysis of bodies, places …

This paper examines the schematic underpinnings in the drawings of a four-year-old girl,
Thea. The paper reviews literature on graphic representations, signs and meaning-making …

Based on the authors' studies of material-discursively approached lives of children, this
paper addresses the educational relevance of playing, through re-entangling and …

Integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education is
becoming increasingly common in K-12 classrooms, and small group activities are …

Teachers can integrate discussion and writing about photographs into the early childhood
curriculum to build speaking, reading, and writing skills in any language. Although little …

This study builds on earlier phases of our research that examined how our discussions of
multicultural young adult literature were shaped by community contexts and by constructions …