Promoting Inquiry with Emerging Readers Using Elephogs and Octobunnies

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Each student received a hamburger-shaped graphic organizer (which Debbie christened a "GO" Chart, because graphic organizers help you "go on" to the next step)-a bun at the top, then the lettuce, the tomatoes, the meat, and the bun at the bottom, enlarged to 11'' x 17'' to accommodate the students' beginning handwriting (see GO Chart, page 30). Images of real animals in research books provided a menu of potential animal features, and early sketches helped students "see" their animal before describing it in print.

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Promoting Inquiry with Emerging Readers Using Elephogs and Octobunnies

There is often a struggle in elementary schools between a desire for higher-order thinking and students'emerging reading skills. How do we simultaneously promote the new Standards for the 21stcentury Learner by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and the call for independent, inquiryo...

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