Colleen MacDonell is the learning resources coordinator for a pre-K to grade 12 international school.
This guide for teachers, librarians, and literacy coaches focuses
on inquiry-based learning and details how fiction and nonfiction
books can be integrated into thematic inquiry in preschool and
elementary classrooms. MacDonnell, a library coordinator, provides
16 units that each outline sample questions, vocabulary, hands-on
activities, and connected national standards. She gives background
on inquiry-based learning and how it works, followed by the units
on personal well- being, products people make and use, community,
and the natural environment. Each unit includes an annotated list
of books to use.
*Reference & Research Book News*
This is an excellent guide for classroom teachers and school media
specialists interested in adding inquiry-based collaborative
lessons to their repertoire. . . . This guide will provide fresh
ideas to those already comfortable with inquiry and a solid jumping
off point for those beginning inquiry for the first time. The book
will be a welcome addition to any elementary library's professional
collection. Recommended.
*Library Media Connection*
The book contains some truly in-depth learning ideas.
*Catholic Library World*
Thematic Inquiry through Fiction and Nonfiction, PreK to Grade 6 is
a guide for educators and librarians for giving inquiry-based
lessons to children in preschool and elementary classes. Each
thematic inquiry unit is divided into a 'Read it!' section wtih a
sample dialogic reading of a given fiction or nonfiction book, an
'Integrate it!' section with examples of how specific subjects or
technology can be seamlessly blended into the lesson, a "Do it!"
section with hands-on activities, and an 'Assess it!' section with
solid cross-curriculum standards and goals. Lists of core
collection fiction and nonfiction books suitable for the lesson
plans are included, and librarians and teachers are given the right
to reproduce activity sheets for library or classroom use. Thematic
Inquiry through Fiction and Nonfiction, PreK to Grade 6 is
ultimately a solid guide and supplement to stimulating intellectual
curiosity and creative thinking. 'The challenge for schools with a
rigidly definied core curriculum is to interpret the core content
in such a way that it connects to the real list interests and
questions of students. The challenge for more open curricula is to
find motivating questions with enough content to sustain interest
neither frivolous nor abstract teachers and children should be able
to frame contect into questions that are worthy of in-depth
investigation and thought.'
*Midwest Book Review*
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