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Gator's Adventures: A Lesson in Literacy and Community

Katrina Hall

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.

Abstract from Hall, K. (2007, February). Gator's Adventures: A Lesson in Literacy and Community. The Reading Teacher, 60(5), 491–493. doi: 10.1598/RT.60.5.9