Students tend to dread research projects—with their limited choice of topics, required formats, and minimal opportunity for original thought. Who can blame them? Cathy Fraser believes that school research projects should be less like busywork and more like police investigations. In Love the Questions she describes ways to engage middle and secondary students from the outset, honoring their curiosity and passion. Accessible and story filled, this book provides strategies to capture the excitement of genuine inquiry in your classroom. Learn how to: embrace inquiry, curiosity, and exploration; teach students to question; develop authentic projects that include surveys, experiments, and interviews; partner with school librarians as educational support for teachers and students; and assess skills, not memorization. Mini-lessons, practice activities, graphic organizers, and examples of student work help you turn research projects into creative, exciting investigations for your students.

In a time when teachers are working incredibly hard to provide students with strategies to read different kinds of text, to write across genres, and to speak and listen with purpose, Katie Egan Cunningham reminds us that when we bridge strategy with the power of story we deepen literacy learning. In Story: Still the Heart of Literacy Learning, Katie shares her story as a classroom teacher, staff developer, professor, and mother and shows teachers how to create classrooms of caring, empathetic, inquisitive storytellers. You will learn specific ways to build a classroom library that reflects our diverse society through rich, purposeful, and varied texts. Katie provides numerous examples of multigenre and multimodal stories from children's and young adult literature, poetry, songs, and multimedia, and the practical toolkit at the end of each chapter demonstrates how to make stories come alive in any classroom.