Katelyn Fletcher

Biographic Data

ID5803830
NAMEKatelyn Fletcher
GIVEN NAMESKatelyn
FAMILY NAMEFletcher
SIGNATUREFLETCHER K
AFFILIATIONSNew York University
ORCID0000-0002-0641-4728
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Enhancing teacher-child engagement and promoting early learning with playful learning landscapes

    Open AccessAnnelise Pesch, Katelyn Fletcher et al.ARTICLEJournal of Applied Developmental…2025References: 46

  • “I wonder, what if, let’s try”

    Shalom M Fisch, Katelyn Fletcher et al.ARTICLEJournal of Children and Media2024

    To investigate whether educational television can enhance problem-solving process skills among preschool children, 116 three- to five-year-olds watched 12 episodes of Sesame Street – either engineering-based “playful problem solving” episodes, or episodes about social-emotional learning. Assessments were conducted on three levels: comprehension and delayed recall of educational content, parental observations of learning, and transfer of learning.…

  • Remote observation of hands-on problem solving among preschool children

    Shalom M Fisch, Kathy Hirsh‐pasek et al.ARTICLEJournal of Children and Media2024

    Innovative methods for remote data collection, developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, also carry value for extending the reach of future research. Using the case study of an evaluation of children’s learning from Sesame Street, this methodological paper discusses challenges of assessing preschool children’s hands-on problem solving remotely via video chat, as well as techniques that were used to overcome these challenges, to yield rich, reliable…

  • Active playful learning as a robust, adaptable, culturally relevant pedagogy to foster children’s 21st century skills

    Katelyn Fletcher, Charlotte Anne Wright et al.ARTICLEJournal of Children and Media2024

    Drawing upon Vygotskian and Piagetian learning theories, recent research reveals children’s learning can be maximized through a specific Active Playful Learning (APL) approach called guided play. The deepest and most engaging learning happens during guided play. In guided play, adults might prepare an environment and set a learning goal, but children get to direct their own play and exploration towards that goal. Research suggests that guided pla…

  • Infants’ home auditory environment

    Open AccessCatalina Suarez‐rivera, Katelyn K Fletcher et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2024

    Background sounds at home-namely those from television, communication devices, music, appliances, transportation, and construction-can support or impede infant language interactions and learning. Yet real-time connections at home between background sound and infant-caregiver language interactions remain unexamined. We quantified background sounds in the home environment, from 1- to 2-hr video recordings of infant-mother everyday activities (infan…

  • Infant exuberant object play at home

    Open AccessOrit Herzberg, Katelyn Fletcher et al.ARTICLEChild Development2022

    Object play yields enormous benefits for infant development. However, little is known about natural play at home where most object interactions occur. We conducted frame-by-frame video analyses of spontaneous activity in two 2-h home visits with 13-month-old crawling infants and 13-, 18-, and 23-month-old walking infants (N = 40; 21 boys; 75% White). Regardless of age, for every infant and time scale, across 10,015 object bouts, object interactio…

  • Bringing playful learning to South Korea

    Open AccessJi Young Lee, Hyun Ji Lee et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022Cited by: 1References: 3

  • Mothers talk about infants’ actions

    Open AccessKelsey L West, Katelyn K Fletcher et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2022Cited by: 2References: 3

    Infants learn nouns during object-naming events-moments when caregivers name the object of infants' play (e.g., ball as infant holds a ball). Do caregivers also label the actions of infants' play (e.g., roll as infant rolls a ball)? We investigated connections between mothers' verb inputs and infants' actions. We video-recorded 32 infant-mother dyads for 2 hr at home (13 month olds, n = 16; 18 month olds, n = 16; girls, n = 16; White, n = 23; Asi…

  • Do, say, learn

    Open AccessYana A Kuchirko, Jacob L Schatz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2020

    We examined the functions of mothers’ speech to infants during two tasks – book-sharing and bead-stringing – in low-income, ethnically diverse families. Mexican, Dominican, and African American mothers and their infants were video-recorded sharing wordless books and toy beads in the home when infants were aged 1;2 and 2;0. Mothers’ utterances were classified into seven categories (labels/descriptions, emotion/state language, attention directives,…

  • Play in Mexican‐American mothers and toddlers is frequent, multimodal, and rich in symbolic content

    Open AccessKatelyn Fletcher, Carolyn Brockmeyer Cates et al.ARTICLEInfancy2020

    Play offers rich opportunities for toddlers to develop motor, social, cognitive, and language skills, particularly during interactions with adult caregivers who may scaffold toddlers to higher levels of play than toddlers achieve on their own. However, research on play has narrowly focused on children from White, middle‐income backgrounds, leaving a dearth of knowledge about dyadic play in diverse cultural communities. We videorecorded 222 Mexica…

  • Language Development

    Open AccessCatherine S Tamis‐lemonda, Catherine S Tamis-Lemonda et al.CHAPTEREncyclopedia of Evolutionary…2018