ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the processes and conditions for the emergence of positive affect during children's multiliteracies learning endeavors in a Finnish pre-primary school that culminated in an exhibition at a local library. It identifies three thematic categories of activity that correlated strongly with positive, affective outcomes, namely, making and producing, sharing experiences, and sustaining interest. The chapter demonstrates how positive affect is evoked when children are afforded opportunities to create, make, and share different texts and interests in the course of their multimodal, multisensory, and playful activities, developing skills and dispositions of competence, relatedness, and agency.
