Creating Classrooms for Authors and Inquirers

A revised edition presenting the curricular framework for a whole language approach to teaching literacy based on the co-authors collaborative work with language teachers. The text outlines the whole language approach and its implementation in the classroom through various writing and reading teaching techniques with an emphasis on classroom environment and inquiry groups. Includes instructions for projects and resource guides. The volume was originally published under the title Creating Classrooms for Authors . Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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.JEROME C. HARSTE is a well known author of childrens books, such as It Didnt Frighten Me and My Icky Picky Sister (Willowisp Press). Harstess research has focused on what young children know prior to coming to school. Together with Carolyn Burke and Virginia Woodward, their book Language StoriesLiteracy Lessons (Heinemann) received the David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English by the National Council of Teachers of English in 1987.