Don't Leave the Story in the Book: Using Literature to Guide Inquiry in Early Childhood Classrooms (Early Childhood Education Series)

Hynes-Berry, Mary

ISBN 10: 0807752878 / ISBN 13: 9780807752876

Published by Teachers College Press, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Don't Leave the Story in the Book: Using Literature to Guide Inquiry in Early Childhood Classrooms (Early Childhood Education Series)
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807752878
• ISBN 13: 9780807752876
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

Drawing from 30 years of teaching and professional development experience, the author 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.

About the Author

Mary Hynes-Berry brings a lifetime of using oral storytelling to promote learning in her work with preservice and inservice teachers at Erikson Institute, Chicago, Illinois.