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Looking Through the Faraway End: Creating a Literature-Based Reading Curriculum With Second Graders
Looking Through the Faraway End Creating a Literature-Based Reading Curriculum With Second Graders Author:Lee Galda This book takes a close-up look at how a group of second graders grew as readers as their teacher transformed her basal-reading curriculum into a program that made use of literature-study groups. This study was a collaborative effort between a classroom teacher and two university researchers. Together they discovered the importance of balancing ... more »their classroom observations with the "faraway" literacy patterns that allowed the students to make meaning from reading. Interspersed throughout the book are a variety of ideas and insights to help teachers renew and strengthen their self-perceptions and practices.« less