Introduction

This chapter elaborates an analytic framework, introducing the concepts of literacy event and literate practice and specifying these for the iPad platform. The iPad was used as a digital listening post for stories and a platform for creating multimodal stories. The chapter presents analyses of literacy activities that involved stories, scientific information, and basic skills, highlighting complications that arose in the enactment of one or another tradition of literacy education. It explores a normative conversation about the use of iPads for literacy education. The chapter presents three iPad-embedded literacy events that were linked to whole group storytime in the focal classroom: iBook reading, multimodal story re-telling and iBook text innovation. Digitalisation of literacy education has long been envisaged especially at the preschool level. The chapter concludes by suggesting a set of reflective questions to inform the normative decision-making by teachers the iPad-embedded Literacy Education Time Allocation Tool (iLETA Tool).