La Ronda in a Spanish Kindergarten Classroom with a Cross‐Cultural Comparison to Sharing Time in the U.S.A.

This article examines a common speech event in Spanish schools known as la ronda, in which children present oral narratives of their out‐of‐school experiences. I argue that the goal of this event is to allow the children and the teacher to build a sense of themselves as a moral community. Despite parallels in organization and content between la ronda and sharing time as described in the U.S. literature, there are important cross‐cultural differences that also are discussed and interpreted here.