Guided Drawing With Multilingual Preschoolers

Developing Language, Vocabulary, and Content Knowledge

Christina M. Cassano, Kathleen A. Paciga (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2023
Teachers' College Press (Verlag)
978-0-8077-6775-7 (ISBN)

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Drawing provides opportunities for children to communicate their thoughts even when they do not have the vocabulary or the English proficiency to fully explain their ideas. This practical guide presents foundational information on the role of drawing in vocabulary development. The authors describe a research-based intervention designed to support and expand young multilingual learners’ experiences with content area vocabulary. They provide teaching examples from several content area investigations carried out in Head Start contexts serving multilingual students. These vignettes, accompanied by student work samples and excerpts of dialogue, will help early childhood educators effectively integrate this pedagogical approach into their classrooms. The user-friendly text includes curriculum support materials such as lesson-planning templates and lists of recommended children’s literature and media. Guided Drawing With Multilingual Preschoolers shows teachers how to use guided drawing in conjunction with established practices to help all young students develop language and content knowledge, particularly in science.

Book Features:

An innovative pedagogical intervention that was created by the authors to use in Head Start classrooms.
An actionable approach to teaching content area vocabulary in the classroom that works with young multilingual learners.
Tables with quick summaries of developmental milestones and teaching points.
Guidance for early educators who understand the importance of building word and world knowledge in authentic ways while children are learning English.
Teaching examples that highlight language-rich interactions and strategies for supporting multilingual learners.
Curriculum connections to culturally relevant children’s literature, media, and high-quality informational texts.

Christina M. Cassano is a professor in the Department of Childhood Education and Care at Salem State University. Kathleen A. Paciga is an associate professor of education in the Department of Humanities, History, and Social Sciences at Columbia College Chicago.

Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

The Power of Guided Drawing 2

The Promise of Guided Drawing 3

Organization 4

1. Changing Landscapes of Early Childhood Classrooms 6

Push-Down Pressures 7

Increases in Linguistic Diversity 8

Demographics of Multilingual Learners 10

Supporting Multilingual Learners in Early Childhood Settings 11

Supporting Children’s Home Language(s) 12

Supporting English Language Acquisition 13

What Is Guided Drawing Anyway? 14

2. Growing Language Purposefully 18

The Importance of a Strong Language Foundation 19

Growing Language in Preschool 25

Language-Building Dispositions 25

The Case for Content-Rich Instruction 33

Strategies That Build and Extend Children’s Knowledge of the World 34

Use Instructional Routines That Deepen Children’s Knowledge 38

3. Guided Drawing: Definitions, Purposes, and Processes 50

Defining (and Refining) Guided Drawing 51

Instructional Features of Guided Drawing 52

Learning Through the Guided Drawing Process 58

Looking Back and Ahead 68

4. “I’m Gonna Draw a Bumblebee” 69

More Than Mark Making 69

Drawing Defined 70

Drawing Development 72

Why Children Draw 75

Challenges Faced During Drawing 83

Looking Ahead 87

5. “He Have a Thorax?” 88

Purposeful, Planful, Thoughtful Instruction 89

Building Teacher Knowledge: Why It Matters 107

6. Planning in Action—Leading With Language 110

Purposeful Instruction: What Should Our Learners Know About Frogs and Toads? 112

Planning to Teach Frog and Toad Content Explicitly 117

Teaching Content Explicitly 119

Determining What Was Learned 141

Thoughtful Reflections on Learning and Teaching With Guided Drawing 143

Conclusion 148

Children’s Media Referenced 153

References 155

Index 171

About the Authors 181

Erscheinungsdatum	11.07.2023
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 235 mm
Gewicht	381 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sonder-, Heil- und Förderpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Vorschulpädagogik
ISBN-10	0-8077-6775-1 / 0807767751
ISBN-13	978-0-8077-6775-7 / 9780807767757
Zustand	Neuware