TR 36. “Once-Upon-a-Time” Reconsidered: The Developmental Dialectic Between Function and Form

By: Anne Haas Dyson
Publication: National Center for the Study of Writing and Literacy Technical Report
Date: July 1989

Summary: This essay traces the evolution of "once-upon-a-time" in a case study of a child's classroom story writing, demonstrating how the story forms young children learn from others are catalysts for development.