Flicka, Ricka, and Dicka were three little girls who lived in Sweden. They had blue eyes and yellow curls, and they looked very much alike.One time, while their aunt and uncle were away, Flicka, Ricka, and Dicka offered to take care of Mitzi, the cat. The girls got fresh milk and fish for Mitzi, and they played with her all day. Then Mitzi disappeared! Flicka, Ricka, and Dicka searched everywhere–the streets and even the rooftops. Mitzi stayed hidden–but that was because she had a big surprise.
Volume I, Issue 2
WOW Stories: Connections from the Classroom is a regular on-line publication of WOW containing vignettes written by classroom educators about children’s experiences reading and responding to literature in the classroom setting.
Contents
Part 1: Creating a Context for Professional Learning
Part 2: Developing Conceptual Thinking
Conceptualization as a Way of Thinking in Schools, by Lisa Thomas, Instructional Coach
Thinking Conceptually about Journeys through an Author Study, by Jennifer Griffith, first grade teacher
Mapping Our Understandings of Literature, by Jaquetta Alexander, second grade teacher
“Life is a Journey and an Iceberg”: Creating a Context for Conceptual Thinking, by Amy Edwards, fifth grade teacher
Encouraging Symbolic Thinking through Literature, by Kathryn Bolasky, third grade teacher
Writing as a Tool for Synthesizing Our Learning, by Kathryn Bolasky, third grade teacher
Part 3: Considering Multiple Perspectives
Moving Across the Arts to Consider New Perspectives, by Kathryn Tompkins, fourth grade teacher
Making Connections through Text Sets with Young Children, by Jennifer Griffith, first grade teacher
Encouraging Intertextual Thinking in the Classroom, by Kathryn Bolasky, third grade teacher
Re-Visioning the World through Multiple Perspectives, by Amy Edwards, fifth grade teacher
Taking Action with Young Children, by Jaquetta Alexander, second grade teacher
Exploring Action and Responsibility through Literature, by Jennifer Griffith, first grade teacher
Part 4: Exploring Taking Action
Young Children’s Explorations of Multiple Perspectives, by Jaquetta Alexander, second grade teacher
Taking Action through Emotional Connections, by Kathryn Tompkins, fourth grade teacher
Exploring Voice and Responsibility through Literature, by Kathryn Tompkins, fourth grade teacher
An Inquiry on Taking Action: Exploring Human Rights, by Jennifer Griffith, first grade teacher, and Derek R. Griffith, Filmmaker
Editor
Kathy G. Short, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Production Editor
Rebecca K. Ballenger, Worlds of Words
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Sebastien relates the life of Marie Antoinette as she goes from being a teenager devoted to him, her pug dog, to becoming the Queen of France and mother to two children.
With his talking dog, Frankie, as a constant companion, ten-year-old Cal Barraclough investigates his wacky neighbor’s unusual experiments.
Samir, a Palestinian boy, is sent for surgery to an Israeli hospital where he has two otherworldly experiences, making friends with an Israeli boy, Yonatan, and traveling with him to Mars.
Suzette sells a variety of her crepes, or French pancakes, from the street cart she takes all over Paris. Includes a recipe, a short glossary of French words used, brief notes on Paris sites, and more.
In 1907 Vancouver, Canada, after helping unearth a skeleton to be returned for burial in China, fourteen-year-old Bing experiences strange events that cause him to confront his fear of both ghosts and of his father.
In the Ethiopian mountain village of Lalibela, famous for its churches and honey, a young girl determines to find a way to be a beekeeper despite being told that is something only men can do.
