Don't leave the story in the book : using literature to guide inquiry in early childhood classrooms

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    • Hynes-Berry, Mary
    • Chen, Jie-Qi

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Don't leave the story in the book : using literature to guide inquiry in early childhood classrooms

Mary Hynes-Berry ; foreword by Jie-Qi Chen

(Early childhood education series)

Teachers College Press, c2012

  • : hardcover
  • : paper

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Drawing from 30 years of teaching and professional development experience, this book offers a roadmap for using children's literature to provide authentic learning. Featuring a ''storyteller's voice,'' each chapter includes a case study about how a particular fiction or nonfiction work can be used in an early childhood classroom; a series of open-ended questions to help readers construct their own inquiry units; and a bibliography of children's literature. This book provides a unique synthesis of ideas based on constructivist approaches to learning, including the importance of positive dispositions and learning communities, the nature of higher-order thinking, and the relationship between methods such as guided inquiry in the sciences and balanced literacy.

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