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Preface
Discovering, Questioning, Talking and Imagining: Writing Nonfiction
1.1 The Role of Curiosity in Teaching
1.2 Teachers Writing Nonfiction
1.3 Working With Nonfiction Writing As A Literary Coach
1.4 Next Steps
1.5 Coming Full Circle
1.6 Drawing And The Science Teacher: Getting Started With Nonfiction
"It's like we're learning and having fun!" Writing Nonfiction in the Kindergarten Classroom
2.1 Doing The Work Of Authors: Setting Students Up To Be Writers Of Nonfiction
2.2 Doing the Work of Authors: Transitioning to Formal Instruction on Nonfiction Writing
2.3 Putting It All Together
Finding The Balance: Pairing NonFiction and Realistic Fiction
3.1 Take A Peek - A Second Grade Writing Workshop
3.2 My Journey Begins
3.3 The Journey Continues: Standards And Project Based Learning
3.4 Books -A Compass On My Journey
3.5 The Next Stage Of The Journey: Pulling Together Mentor Texts, Mini-lessons And Projects
3.6 Road Bumps
3.7 The Journey Continues - Well Down The Road
3.8 Surprises Along The Way
3.9 Reaching Our Destination: Time To Share And Celebrate
Why Bees? Writing Nonfiction Together In Kindergarten
4.1 Drawing and the Science Teacher: Getting Started with Nonfiction
4.2 Asking Questions: Getting Started With Research
4.3 Asking, Answering, Asking…The Research Process
4.4 The Power of Visual Images: Drawing Nonfiction
4.5 Complex Content: Writing Nonfiction
4.6 The Sweet Reward
Collaborative-Interactive Nonfiction Writing: Positioning Students With Significant/Multiple Disabilities As Nonfiction Writers
5.1 Exploring The Natural World Through Our Classroom Window: Positioning My Students As Nonfiction Writers
5.2 Bringing The Natural World Into Our Classroom
5.3 A Multimedia Research Project
5.4 Final Thoughts
Conversations With First Graders: Scientific Imagination and NonFiction Writing
6.1 Olivia And The Sun
6.2 Marcy And The Dragonfly
6.3 Hector And The Mosquitoes
6.4 What We Can Learn From Conversations With First Graders
Nonfiction Is Not Just A Name For Fiction Reading And Writing Nonfiction In A Second-Grade Classroom
7.1 Reading Nonfiction Aloud
7.2 Pairing Fiction and Nonfiction
7.3 Teaching Characteristics of the Genre
7.4 Engaging Children in Conversation
7.5 Content
7.6 Nonfiction: A World Entered Willingly
Redefining Nonfiction Writing
8.1 Blurring The Boundaries Between Fiction And Nonfiction: Literary Nonfiction
8.2 Becoming A Hybrid Teacher
8.3 On Being a Hybrid Writer—A Student’s Perspective
A Large And Lovely Accomplishment: Three Types Of Nonfiction Writing For Fourth Grade Writers
9.1 Investigative Writing
9.2 Nonfiction Narrative
9.3 Research Writing
9.4 Reflections
Chapter 6: Conversations With First Graders: Scientific Imagination and NonFiction Writing
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