ABSTRACT
Shared Journal is based on the understanding that young children can learn in school in the same natural way they learned during the very early years of their life. It is an instructional practice based on the theoretical tenet that individuals construct their own knowledge (Piaget & Inhelder, 1969) and that children develop that knowledge through social interaction with others (Kamii & Randazzo, 1985). In Shared Journal, children do this through telling about events from their lives, asking and answering questions, talking with others, and reading their stories.
