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Imagination and Literacy: A Teacher's Search for the Heart of Learning (Practitioner Inquiry Series) [Paperback]

Karen Gallas (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0807744050 | ISBN-13: 978-0807744055 | Publication Date: December 1, 2003

This work investigates the imagination in the classroom to understand its function in literacy learning.

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Karen Gallas is an early childhood and elementary teacher with more than 30 years of experience in urban and rural public schools. She has published three books, The Languages of Learning, Talking Their Way Into Science, and Sometimes I Can Be Anything, all by Teachers College Press.

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Paperback: 181 pages
Publisher: Teachers College Press (December 1, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0807744050
ISBN-13: 978-0807744055
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,230,984 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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literate identity, magical act, sociocultural literacy, science talks, discourse acquisition, discourse appropriation, storybook reading, drama center, puzzling events

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Reimagining the Classroom, Real World, Discourse Through Imaginative Action, The Question, The Look, Different World, Report Out, Entering the Rabbit Hole, Heckedy Peg, European American, Brookline Teacher Research Seminar, African American, Observing Imagination

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