Making the Most of Movement Narratives

Creating and Implementing Preschool Movement Narratives

“…The newly developed narrative or story is then placed within a lesson framework with cognitive, social, and psychomotor goals common to physical education. These goals include: heightening children's imaginations, providing opportunities to express feelings through movement, encouraging positive and cooperative interactions between peers, and expanding children's movement vocabulary (Kane, 1994;Kowalski, Kennedy, & Jackson, 1992;Clements, 1991).…”