The Use of Nonfiction/Informational Trade Books in an Elementary Classroom
Description:
The purpose of the study was to describe the use of nonfiction/informational trade books within a literature-based elementary classroom by students and the teacher. Using a qualitative ethnographic approach, the researcher became a participant observer in a third grade classroom during a two and one-half week thematic unit about the westward movement. Data were collected from field notes, audiotapes of class discussions and informal interviews, documents of students' work, photographs, daily ob…
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Date:
August 1994
Creator:
Briggs, Connie Craft
Partner:
UNT Libraries