What If and Why?: Literacy Invitations for Multilingual Classrooms

by Katie Van Sluys

Wouldn't it be great if you could create learning opportunities flexible enough to attend to each child's needs equally while making the most of the diverse resources, skills, and backgrounds each child brings to school? Now you can. In What If and Why ? Katie Van Sluys offers a framework for building critical reading, and writing skills in multilingual classrooms. Through rigorous group projects called invitations, elementary students, including...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325007322
• ISBN13: 9780325007328
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6