aware than before. Reading has impacted her greatly and positively She has … started to care about reading much more than before. When she is drawing, she writes letters and keeps asking about anything that she does not understand. I feel that her mind is getting bigger. She is excited about things and eager to read. I made a special library for her containing more stories than before implementing the project. Sahad Sahad is four years and eight months old. She lives with her parents and two brothers. Her father is an accountant and her mother is a housewife, and the average family’s monthly income is £1000. The family is considered a relatively low-income family. Before the project, parents did not support reading at home, as her mother said: Sahad’s However, after the workshop, they kept watching TV in their free ‘No, time.’ parents’ mother started reading every day, as reported: Sahad’s ‘Yes … daily’. During my observations in all three weeks before the project, overall, Sahad was more interested in the Family Corner and the Art Corner. In the classroom, she regularly visited these corners. She did not visit the Library Corner, except one day under the request. She had been there for three minutes watching her friend and then she teacher’s left. An example of one observation is as follows: At 9:00, Sahad chose to work in the Art Corner, doing a triangle. She left the corner at 9:08. Looking around, the teacher asked her to go to the Library Corner since it was not busy. Sahad went there and watched her friend for three minutes. Then she moved to the Writing Corner. She pasted images on a page. Then she moved to the Family Corner, playing with her friends until 10:00, the end of the Play in the Educational time (Field notes, March 2014). ‘Free Corners’ I noticed changes in choices of activities in the classroom. She engaged much Sahad’s more in literacy-related activities than before the project. In all the observation sessions she visited the Library Corner, reading from an iPad and books, as observed: At 9:30, Sahad went to the Library Corner, chose the story of the day, and read it through the text and the pictures from the beginning to the end. She highly
aware than before. Reading has impacted her greatly and positively … She has started to care about reading much more than before. When she is drawing, she writes letters and keeps asking about anything that she does not understand. I feel that her mind is getting bigger. She is excited about things and eager to read. I made a special library for her containing more stories than before implementing the project. Sahad Sahad is four years and eight months old. She lives with her parents and two brothers. Her father is an accountant and her mother is a housewife, and the family’s average monthly income is £1000. The family is considered a relatively low-income family. Before the project, Sahad’s parents did not support reading at home, as her mother said: ‘No, they kept watching TV in their free time.’ However, after the parents’ workshop, Sahad’s mother started reading every day, as reported: ‘Yes … daily’. During my observations in all three weeks before the project, overall, Sahad was more interested in the Family Corner and the Art Corner. In the classroom, she regularly visited these corners. She did not visit the Library Corner, except one day under the teacher’s request. She had been there for three minutes watching her friend and then she left. An example of one observation is as follows: At 9:00, Sahad chose to work in the Art Corner, doing a triangle. She left the corner at 9:08. Looking around, the teacher asked her to go to the Library Corner since it was not busy. Sahad went there and watched her friend for three minutes. Then she moved to the Writing Corner. She pasted images on a page. Then she moved to the Family Corner, playing with her friends until 10:00, the end of the ‘Free Play in the Educational Corners’ time (Field notes, March 2014). I noticed changes in Sahad’s choices of activities in the classroom. She engaged much more in literacy-related activities than before the project. In all the observation sessions she visited the Library Corner, reading from an iPad and books, as observed: At 9:30, Sahad went to the Library Corner, chose the story of the day, and read it through the text and the pictures from the beginning to the end. She highly
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