“This book provides a theoretical and empirical foundation for the development of new and
exciting pedagogical approaches to the teaching and learning of digital literacies in the …

Early childhood can be a time of rich discovery, a period when educators have an
opportunity to harness their students' fascination to create unique learning opportunities …

The essays, research studies, and pedagogical examples in this book provide a window into
the embodied dimensions of literacy and a toolbox for interpreting, building on, and inquiring …

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

Geosemiotics (Scollon and Scollon, 2003) frames this analysis of play, multimodal
collaboration, and peer mediation as players navigate barriers to online connectivity in a …

ABSTRACT Research Findings: Despite widespread calls to advance equity in early
childhood classrooms, there are few observational measures of equitable classroom …

This article draws on work around matter and the material in order to examine how (extra)
ordinary “things” are used to (re) produce formulaic and predictable performances within the …

This qualitative work analyzes what parents, teachers, and children say about reading when
Accelerated Reader and Reading Renaissance are used for reading instruction. Critical …

Drawing from an incident that took place during a year-long investigation of children's play
and peer culture on a school playground, the author argues that seemingly neutral child …

How does “playing school,” an ordinary childhood pastime, shape children's reading
abilities, classroom identities, and relative social positioning? In an ethnographic study of …