Creating Classrooms for Authors and Inquirers, Second Edition

by Carolyn Burke, Kathy Gnagey Short, Jerome C. Harste

How do you set up supportive classrooms in which children can become real readers, writers, and inquirers? Can it be done every day, across the curriculum? In the first edition, Short, Harste, and Burke presented practical theory of literacy instruction based on their work with classroom teachers. Their aim was to show practicing and preservice elementary teachers how to create the best possible literacy-learning environment. In this second edition,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0435088505
• ISBN13: 9780435088507
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 5

Customer Reviews

Three Years Later, and This Still Ranks As The Best

I used this book while earning my Masters of Teaching in Early Childhood Education. It gives a superb presentation on how to put down the 1950s/60s style of teaching reading by using an investigative approach. I hope that they up date it soon.

A great resource for getting started with writing workshop

I found Creating Classrooms... to be a good resource for getting started with writing workshop in my classroom. I especially enjoyed the sections on "Kidwatching." Observation is a powerful assessment tool.