Nurturing writing of narrative and expository texts at the preschool level

• Autores: Ainat Guberman
• Localización: Development of writing skills in children in diverse cultural contexts: contributions to teaching and learning / coord. por Alina Galvao Spinillo, Carmen Sotomayor, 2023, ISBN 9783031292859, págs. 243-261
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Literacy involves the ability to produce and interpret texts. This chapter describes how preschool children can learn to create narratives and expository texts by combining oral and written language with various forms of nonverbal graphic representations such as drawings and tables. As children use different meaning-making resources in the texts they produce, they experience their different affordances and thus broaden and enrich their text production toolkit. The theoretical framework of the chapter is the constructivist ecological approach. We argue that human learning develops in the context of social and cultural activities. Through such activities, educators can expand children’s exposure to a broader vocabulary, to various text genres, writing skills, and world knowledge. The more such activities are repeated in diverse ways, the more children will be able to understand and effectively produce texts, and thus the more they will be empowered. These arguments are illustrated through examples of children’s production of creative narratives and of two types of expository texts: records of biological observations and a comparison table presenting the characteristics of countries.