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Gator's Adventures: A Lesson in Literacy and Community
Author(s) -
Hall Katrina
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1598/rt.60.5.9
Subject(s) - adventure , reading (process) , literacy , psychology , artifact (error) , picture books , visual arts , pedagogy , literacy education , emergent literacy , primary education , mathematics education , linguistics , art , art history , philosophy , neuroscience
This article describes a take‐home literacy project in which kindergartners took home books, a stuffed animal, a camera, and a shared writing activity to complete with their families. The children later shared their writing and experiences in school. The resulting written responses and photographs depicted a level of involvement with the families that was not expected. At the end of the year, the writings and photographs were collected and each child was given a book that included all of children's writings and photographs. These books became treasured keepsakes of their year in kindergarten and a wonderful artifact not only of reading and writing for relevant purposes but also of a meaningful home activity that became a community‐building project as well.