Wally's Stories By Vivian Paley Analysis

In Wally's Stories, Vivian Paley shows the story of the evolution of a kindergarten classroom in which the author learned to stop fighting childish fantasy and instead make use of it to stimulate the very best brand of thinking that five year-olds can muster. Stories also lie at the heart of her classroom: stories that are first told by one of the children, then transcribed by the teacher, and then acted out by the class in dramatic productions of their own design. Paley also shows that in the course of creating the children’s own dramatic world, young as five-year-olds are capable of thought and language far in advance of what they accomplish in traditional classroom exercises. The children's stories also become a vehicle that they can use