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

by Georgia Heard and Jennifer McDonough

Book Overview

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. The authors' research shows that many primary grade state standards encourage teaching for understanding, critical thinking, creativity, and question asking,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571104321
• ISBN13: 9781571104328
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.2"