Curiosity, Complexity and Conversations

Abstract

Chapter 1: Discovering, Questioning, Talking and Imagining: Writing NonFiction. Chapter 2: "It's like we're learning and having fun!" Writing NonFiction In The Kindergarten Classroom. Chapter 3: Finding The Balance: Pairing NonFiction and Realistic Fiction. Chapter 4: Why Bees? Writing Nonfiction Together In Kindergarten. Chapter 5: Collaborative-Interactive Nonfiction Writing: Positioning Students with Significant/Multiple Disabilities As Nonfiction Writers. Chapter 6: Conversations With First Graders: Scientific Imagination and NonFiction Writing. Chapter 7: Nonfiction Is Not Just A Fancy Name For Fiction Reading And Writing Nonfiction In A Second-Grade Classroom.