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Imaginary Stories In School: First Steps Toward Literacy, Gillian Dowley Mcnamee
Imaginary Stories In School: First Steps Toward Literacy, Gillian Dowley Mcnamee
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This essay holds that to forgo opportunities for children's pretend play and conversation around storytelling in school is to distort the very nature of language development and literacy.