A Place for Wonder: Reading and Writing Nonfiction in the Primary Grades

A Place for Wonder: Reading and Writing Nonfiction in the Primary Grades
ISBN-10
1571104321
ISBN-13
9781571104328
Category
Active learning
Pages
178
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
Stenhouse Publishers
Authors
Georgia Heard, Jennifer McDonough

Description

In A Place for Wonder, Georgia Heard and Jennifer McDonough discuss how to create "a landscape of wonder," a primary classroom where curiosity, creativity, and exploration are encouraged. For it is these characteristics, the authors write, that develop intelligent, inquiring, life-long learners. A Place for Wonder will help teachers reclaim their classrooms as a place where true learning is the norm.

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