Don't leave the story in the book : using literature to guide inquiry in early childhood classrooms / Mary Hynes-Berry ; foreword by Jie-Qi Chen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hynes-Berry, Mary.

Contributor:

James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

Series:

Early childhood education series (Teachers College Press)

Early childhood education series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Study and teaching (Early childhood).

Literature.

Children--Books and reading.

Children.

Storytelling.

Inquiry-based learning.

Physical Description:

xi, 203 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Teachers College Press, [2012]

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Praxis and Practices

1 How Are Learning Communities Like Stone Soup? Exploring a Praxis 11

2 What Can We Learn from the Three Little Pigs? The Three Es of Quality Intellectual Work 20

3 Can Cinderella's Slipper Be Gold Instead of Glass? The Role of Questions in Quality Intellectual Work 39

4 How Can We Play with Abiyoyo? The SIP of Play and Quality Intellectual Work 59

5 What Makes a Good Goldilocks? Assessing the Quality of Picture Books 80

Part II Disciplined Inquires

6 How Long Is Tikki Tikki Tembo? What's the Problem with Naked Numbers? 103

7 How Did the Sun and Moon Come to be in the Sky Playing with the Amazing Facts of Science 120

8 How Do You Get from Patches to a Patchwork Quilt? Reading an Object to Spark Inquiry Across the Curriculum 136

9 Who's the Strongest? What Makes Stories Such Effective Tools for Quality Intellectual Work 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.

ISBN:

0807752878

9780807752876

9780807752883

0807752886

OCLC:

747712913

Publisher Number:

99946104629