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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The "Basics" and Society's Children: Cases of Classroom Writing | |
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| On Metaphoric Mailboxes and Textual Playgrounds: Basic Critiques | |
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| Neighborhood Drives: Places for Childhoods Past and Present | |
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| Basic Lessons and Basic Tensions | |
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| Welcome to Writing Workshop | |
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| The Classroom as Community: Working (and Playing) Together | |
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| The Basics and the Official Writing Lives of Young Children | |
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| Wide-Awake Children and Blinds-Shut Basics | |
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| Looking Good and Sounding "Right": Fix-Its | |
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| Kindergarten Fix-Its: Where Do Written Stories Come From? | |
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| st-Grade Fix-Its: Whose Voice Is That? | |
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| The Basics in a Symbol-Mediated, Voice-Filled World | |
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| The Ethics of Writing: On Truth and Ownership | |
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| "A Real Story About You" (The You That Is Not Spider-Man) | |
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| Your Own Story (The One That Is Not Copied) | |
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| Writing a Life Story (Or Writing in a Social Life?) | |
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| A Change in Angle of Vision | |
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| Writing "Basics" in Childhood Spaces | |
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| Shifting Expectations and Differing Ethics: Entering Childhood Cultures | |
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| Relational Fix-Its: "Put My Name in There!" | |
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| Organizing and Enacting Relationships: "Can I Play?" | |
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| A Caution About Developmental Order | |
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| Collegial Relations and Coordinated Actions: Textual Handclaps | |
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| Written Language and the Mediation of Childhood Cultures | |
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| The Relational Landscape for Textual Play: Situating Old Basics in Child Spaces | |
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| Complementary Relations and Improvisational Play: On Matters of Birthdays, Love, and War | |
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| Complementary Relations and Birthday Parties | |
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| Complementary Relations and Their Lack: The Complex Game of Love | |
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| From Complementary Relations to Collaborative Improvisations: The Pine Cone Wars | |
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| The Basic Dramas of Children's Textual Play | |
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| Performers on a Movable Stage: On the Malleability of Voice and Image | |
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| Storytelling: Communicative Resources and Social Stages | |
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| Rhyming and Singing: New Written Venues for Play and Performance | |
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| On Child Performers | |
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| Re-Imagining Writing Basics for Contemporary Childhoods | |
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| Contextualizing the Basics | |
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| Toward a Re-Envisioned Basic Education | |
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| So, What Do You Think? | |
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| Reflections on Methods | |
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| Situating Teachers | |
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| Copying the Children | |
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| Constructing Analytic Narratives | |
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| Demographic Tables | |
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| Sex and Ethnicity of Mrs. Kay's Children | |
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| Sex and Ethnicity of Mrs. Bee's Children | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |