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9780325000732

Talking about Books : Literature Discussion Groups in K-8 Classrooms

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  • ISBN13:

    9780325000732

  • ISBN10:

    0325000735

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-07-09
  • Publisher: Heinemann
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Summary

Talking About Books is being reissued because it is clear that a focus on dialogue about books within a literate community remains important to teachers.

Author Biography

KATHY GNAGEY SHORT teaches courses in childrens literature and curriculum at the University of Arizona. She continues to work with teacher study groups on a wide range of topics, including literature circles and curriculum as inquiry. She is coauthor of Creating Classrooms for Authors and Inquirers, Second Edition (Heinemann, 1996), with Jerome Harste and Carolyn Burke, and coauthored Learning Together Through Inquiry with several contributors to this book.KATHRYN MITCHELL PIERCE currently teaches in a multiage primary classroom at Glenridge Elementary School in Clayton, Missouri. She continues to work in her own classroom and with other teachers interested in exploring literature discussion groups and small-group discussions on mathematical inquiry. Pierce coedited, with Carol Gilles, Cycles of Meaning (Heinemann, 1993), in which many of the contributors to this book share their further explorations of talk in literature discussions and other curricular structures.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Part One ESTABLISHING A CONTEXT FOR LITERATE COMMUNITIES 3(52)
Chapter 1 The Power of Children's Literature in the Classroom
3(14)
CHARLOTTE S. HUCK
Chapter 2 Entertaining a Text: A Reciprocal Process
17(16)
KAREN SMITH
Chapter 3 Creating a Community of Learners
33(22)
KATHY GNAGEY SHORT
Part Two ORGANIZING THE CLASSROOM TO SUPPORT TALK ABOUT LITERATURE 55(102)
Chapter 4 Collaborative Literacy Strategies: "We Don't Need a Circle to Have a Group"
55(16)
CAROL GILLES
Chapter 5 Our Class Knows Frog and Toad: An Early Childhood Literature-Based Classroom
71(12)
LINDA BOWERS SHEPPARD
Chapter 6 Literacy Through Interaction
83(20)
NANCY NUSSBAUM
LISA PUCKETT
Chapter 7 Student-Created Units: Choice, Collaboration, and Connections
103(18)
CAROL PORTER
Chapter 8 Transitions Toward an Integrated Curriculum
121(14)
JOAN VON DRAS
Chapter 9 Celebrating Authorship: A Process of Collaborating and Creating Meaning
135(22)
GLORIA KAUFFMAN
KAYLENE YODER
Part Three MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT CURRICULUM AND LEARNING 157
Chapter 10 Show Me: Whole Language Evaluation of Literature Groups
157(20)
DOROTHY J. WATSON
Chapter 11 Initiating Literature Discussion Groups: Teaching Like Learners
177(22)
KATHRYN MITCHELL PIERCE
Chapter 12 Planning for Literature Circles: Variations in Focus and Structure
199
EVELYN HANSSEN

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