What is it about?
Children's stories take multiple forms, unfolding through well known underlying patterns present in the storytelling of older children and adults. Each story genre deploys language in distinct ways, reflecting underlying meaning making patterns.
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Why is it important?
Singular conceptions of story can misconstrue sophisticated performance as lacking or problematic. Considering story as an umbrella term which encompasses multiple, distinct ways of construing experience demonstrates the diverse ways to skillfully make meaning when storying experience.
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Young children are far more capable than is often assumed. They bring a wealth of experience from the family, home, and community, which can be leveraged in the classroom when teachers understand the multiple, patterned ways that stories unfold.
Erin Elizabeth Flynn
Portland State University
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This page is a summary of: Storying experience: Young children’s early use of story genres, Text & Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Discourse Communication Studies, June 2018, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/text-2018-0010.
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