The PLaNS research project was designed to develop a playful teaching framework and resources to improve:

• children’s motivation to engage in producing and representing narratives;
• the creative process of generating rich and well-structured fictional and non-fictional narratives;
• the quality of children’s talk and dialogic thinking during collaborative work;
• the quality of children’s written products according to the English curriculum.

Principal Investigator: David Whitebread

Project Staff: Helen Bradford, Mary Anne Wolpert, Marisol Basilio