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STORYPLAYING: 
VIVIAN PALEY'S PRIZE-WINNING  LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUE

For people who work with children ages 4-9

This workshop is about a process in which stories dictated by a child to the teacher come alive through dramatization by and for young children.  Developed by University of Chicago Laboratory School teacher and MacArthur "genius" prize winner, Vivian Gussin Paley, author of White Teacher, Wally's Stories, Molly is Three, Bad Guys Don't Have Birthdays, The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter, You Can't Say You Can't Play, Kwanzaa and Me, A Child's Work: The Importance of Fantasy Play, In Mrs. Tully's Room : A Childcare Portrait [all from Harvard University Press or University of Chicago Press]  

Storyplaying is a no-cost, straightforward, classroom-contained empowering experience for children and teachers.  I have a half-hour video of the process as I attempted to replicate it in Pasadena, California, in 1989.  The workshop will help teachers think about appropriate pre-literacy activities, and appropriate supports for children just becoming literate.

E-mail:  sydney@eceteacher.org, www.eceteacher.org • (C) Copyright Sydney Gurewitz Clemens, 2007