Language Arts - Cross-Curricular Convergences, Mar 2001

Gray examines a collaborative inquiry study group that provides a context for increased engagement and risk-taking by a struggling, young writer.

Read presents four case studies to examine how her first and second graders worked together using source texts to write their own informational books.

In this article, Tevebaugh shares how the study of insects became a focal point for cross-curricular convergence in her classroom.

Can literature open up and revitalize the scientific study of astronomy in elementary classrooms? Kaser describes one class that included cross-cultural perspectives, hard science, and a class visit by science fiction novelist Seymor Simon.

Matthews and Rainer discuss the complexities of their work with elementary teachers who attempted to integrate literacy and mathematics instruction in their classrooms.

In this article, Ronna Scott Mosher considers what it means to listen in the context of teaching, and what it means to teach in the context of listening.

In this article, Griffin explores children’s peer relationships and oral language as a means of examining the social contexts of beginning reading.

In this issue’s Profile, Kitigawa presents an interview with children’s book illustrator James Ransome.

This issue’s Talking about Books column presents poetry books that highlight “the power of language to invite new relationships, to cast familiar experiences in a new light, to fill our minds with the richness of the people around us, and the world around us.”