Pre-K Stories: Playing with Authorship and Integrating Curriculum in Early Childhood

Pre-K Stories offers a lively exploration of how one classroom community played with and collaboratively engaged in authorship. Through everyday stories, readers are invited to witness and engage with classroom practices that honor young children’s brilliance and build on their questions, interests, and strengths. Weaving together literacy, language arts, social studies, science, mathematics, and more, the authors illustrate how curriculum can be authentically and meaningfully integrated. They also offer a unique perspective on the development of language and literacy practices by framing children’s play narratives as the foundation from which rich curricula can grow. Pre-K Stories allows readers to experience the rich cadence of a classroom while also coming to understand important theories that undergird early childhood teaching and young children’s learning.

“A powerful and much-needed text that brings us back to what matters in education: children, their interests, and their potential. You will fall in love with this book!”
—Catherine Compton-Lilly, University of South Carolina

“An inspiring, heartwarming book for all teachers committed to nurturing children’s growing literacy as tools for actively engaging with the world around them.”
—Louise Derman-Sparks, faculty emerita, Pacific Oaks College

“One of the many strengths of this book is that it looks at writing and authorship across disciplines. I’d like to get this book into the hands of every early childhood educator.”
—Maisha T. Winn, University of California, Davis