Foreword -- 1. From passion to presentation -- Part One: Conditions for successful inquiry -- 2. Honoring passion -- 3. Questions that compel -- 4. Topics that resonate: let the writer choose -- 5. Authentic resources -- 6. Showing kids how -- Part Two: The nitty-gritty -- 7. Reading nonfiction: learning and understanding -- 8. Zeroing in: observation and secondary research -- 9. Primary research: going directly to the source -- 10. Organizing thinking: there's no one way -- Part Three: Putting it all together -- 11. Getting it down on paper -- 12. Inquiry genres: the wide range of possibilities -- 13. Managing nonfiction inquiry projects -- 14. Presentations and assessment -- A final word -- Appendixes
Summary
A guide to bringing nonfiction into the curriculum in third through eighth-grade classrooms, with strategies and ideas for reading nonfiction, conducting research, and writing reports
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index
