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My colleague teachers and I would like to create a positive learning environment by implementing storytelling and dramatization while aligning with the standard of Early Childhood Education curriculum within the district. The aim is to promote students’ creative and critical thinking skills that correlate a multitude of academic subject areas in their formative years, which promote their language skills, social-emotional and cognitive development, and leads to later academic success. Research has shown that child-centered, play-based storytelling and teaching guidance is an optimal way to promote children's growth and development in the early childhood classroom. There are two main types of storytelling, narration and story reading, as child-centered activities, both are essential social interaction and verbal exchanges between adults and children. Forty years ago, Dr. Vivian Paley and other researchers have proved the positive contribution of book reading, child-center storytelling, and dramatization play to a child's literacy and literature skills, social-emotional and academic development. Especially for children ages 3-5 years old, the greatest benefit was emergent writers who did not yet have print literacies could still effectively use drama to retell and act out stories. All materials will be used to support children's learning from home-school. The listening center and CD stories and books will be used in the classroom during small and large group learning activities. For example, for children to reading and listen to audio stories. Other learning materials are for teacher use for instruction lessons, and for children creating/drawing picture stories, dramatization play, retelling stories, etc. Your general contribution and support will give my students opportunities to explore stories on multimodal platforms and enrich their literacy and literature learning environment. My students learning needs and goals will be met.