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One Screen, Many Fingers: Young Children's Collaborative Literacy Play With Digital Puppetry Apps and Touchscreen Technologies by Wohlwend, Karen E.

“…This article examines the digital literacy practices that emerge when young children play together with digital apps on touchscreen devices. Children's…”
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Damsels in Discourse: Girls Consuming and Producing Identity Texts Through Disney Princess Play by Wohlwend, Karen E.

“…Drawing upon theories that reconceptualize toys and artifacts as identity texts, this study employs mediated discourse analysis to examine children's…”
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Recognition in makerspaces: Supporting opportunities for women to “make” a STEM career by Keune, Anna, Peppler, Kylie A., Wohlwend, Karen E.

“…Making is a playful exploration of tools and materials to design personally meaningful artifacts, providing a particularly impactful entry point for…”
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Monster High as a Virtual Dollhouse: Tracking Play Practices across Converging Transmedia and Social Media by Wohlwend, Karen E.

“…Background Today, children play in transmedia franchises that bring together media characters, toys, and everyday consumer goods with games, apps, and websites…”
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The boys who would be princesses: playing with gender identity intertexts in Disney Princess transmedia by Wohlwend, Karen E.

“…Using data from a 3-year ethnographic study in US early childhood classrooms, I examine two kindergarten boys' classroom play with their favourite Disney…”
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Media as nexus of practice: remaking identities in What Not to Wear by Wohlwend, Karen E., Medina, Carmen L.

“…In this conceptual piece, we examine media as a nexus of a traditional schooling pedagogy and performance pedagogy to make visible how their overlapping…”
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Making sense and nonsense: Comparing mediated discourse and agential realist approaches to materiality in a preschool makerspace by Wohlwend, Karen E, Peppler, Kylie A, Keune, Anna, Thompson, Naomi

“…Two approaches to materiality (i.e. mediated discourse and agential realism) are compared to explore their usefulness in tracking literacies in action and…”
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Who gets to play? Access, popular media and participatory literacies by Wohlwend, Karen E.

“…Early literacy is often over-simplified as a set of skills for beginning reading, an approach which overlooks the ways that children play their way into…”
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Playrevolution: Engaging Equity through the Power of Play by Thiel, Jaye Johnson, Wohlwend, Karen

“…This special issue continues a two-year conversation about a #playrevolution in literacies research, theory, and practice. The juxtaposition of play and…”
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‘Are You Guys Girls?’: Boys, Identity Texts, and Disney Princess Play by Wohlwend, Karen E.

“…Drawing from critical sociocultural perspectives that view play, literacy, and gender as social practices, boys’ Disney Princess play is examined as a site of…”
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Early adopters: Playing new literacies and pretending new technologies in print-centric classrooms by Wohlwend, Karen E.

“…In this article, semiotic analysis of children's practices and designs with video game conventions considers how children use play and drawing as spatializing…”
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Bringing Joy to School: Engaging K–16 Learners through Maker Literacies and Playshops by Davis, Summer J., Scott, Jill A., Wohlwend, Karen E., Pennington, Casey M.

“…Background For too many youths, school has become a place for students to withstand and kill time until they can leave and learn about things that matter to…”
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Enriching and Assessing Young Children's Multimodal Storytelling by Wessel-Powell, Christy, Kargin, Tolga, Wohlwend, Karen E.

“…This article provides primary teachers with assessment tools and curricular examples to expand writers’ workshop by adding a multimodal storytelling unit on…”
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Research & Policy: Playing to Our Strengths: Finding Innovation in Children's and Teachers' Imaginative Expertise by Wohlwend, Karen E.

“…This article reviews recent research on young children’s literacy learning, with a focus on innovative ideas that reclaim a long-standing ethos in early…”
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Dilemmas and Discourses of Learning to Write: Assessment as a Contested Site by Wohlwend, Karen E.

“…Writing assessment is a contested site where competing discourses overlap and invoke conflicting expectations, creating dilemmas for teachers who want to do…”
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Kindergarten as Nexus of Practice: A Mediated Discourse Analysis of Reading, Writing, Play, and Design in an Early Literacy Apprenticeship by Wohlwend, Karen E.

“…To reconceptualize kindergarten as nexus of practice, this dissertation draws upon cultural-historical activity theory and models (Engeström, 1990; Leont'ev,…”
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mediated discourse analysis: researching young children’s non-verbal interactions as social practice by Wohlwend, Karen E.

“…Young children often use actions rather than talk as they interact with objects and each other to strategically shape the social, material, and cultural…”
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A New Spin on Miscue Analysis: Using Spider Charts to Web Reading Processes by Wohlwend, Karen E.

“…This article introduces a way of seeing miscue analysis data through a "spider chart", a readily available digital graphing tool that provides an effective way…”
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Navigating discourses in place in the world of Webkinz by Wohlwend, Karen E., Vander Zanden, Sarah, Husbye, Nicholas E., Kuby, Candace R.

“…Geosemiotics (Scollon and Scollon, 2003) frames this analysis of play, multimodal collaboration, and peer mediation as players navigate barriers to online…”
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From "What Did I Write?" to "Is this Right?": Intention, Convention, and Accountability in Early Literacy by Wohlwend, Karen E.

“…When children enter public kindergartens in the current atmosphere of high-stakes testing, they often encounter an emphasis on correctness that casts doubt on…”
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