Northern Oral Language and Writing Through Play

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NOW Play Podcast Series

A classroom turned into a mailroom through the use of dramatic play created a space for students to write in an authentic environment. Click the play button on the podcast audio below to find out more!

A research practitioner engaged in a classroom project using pretend campfires to build on traditional knowledge and enhance early literacy skills. Click the play button on the podcast audio below to find out more!


NOW Play Minute Series

If you click here to the left, we provide three main takeaways from Toward a Shift in Expectations and Values: What We’ve Learned from Collaborative Action Research in Northern Indigenous Communities by Shelley Stagg Peterson, Laura Horton & Jean-Paul Restoule

Click to the right for your NOW Play Minute on Dynamic assessment and small-group play-based context supporting First Nation children’s standard English language development by Shelley Stagg Peterson, Nazila Eisazadeh, Dana Hopkins, & Sharlah Peltier

If you click here to the left, we provide three main takeaways from, Play, Oral Language, Writing and Cultural Relevance in Northern Rural Kindergarten Classrooms: Teachers’ Roles by Jade Kim, Audrey Madsen, & Shelley Stagg Peterson

Click to the right for three takeaways from To help children learn how to read in the pandemic, encourage writing messages as part of play by Shelley Stagg Peterson

If you click here to the left, we provide three main takeaways from, Rural and Indigenous Families’ Support of Young Children’s Writing by Shelley Stagg Peterson, Ashley Grimes, & Kathy Sky.

Click here to the right to find out more about the article titled, Children’s Funds of Knowledge in a Rural Northern Canadian Community: A Telling Case  by Jim Anderson, Laura Horton, Maureen Kendrick, & Marianne McTavish.

Here to the left we have your NOW Play Minute on the articles titled, Child-Directed Dramatic Play as Identity Text in Northern Canadian Indigenous Kindergarten Classrooms by Shelley Stagg Peterson & Laura Horton

Here to the right, we provide you with three main takeaways from our recent publication titled Partnership Research With Indigenous Communities: Fostering Community Engagement and Relational Accountability by Jennifer Brant, Shelley Stagg Peterson, & Nicola Friedrich


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