Children Exploring Their World: Theme Teaching in Elementary School » (New Edition)

SEAN WALMSLEY is a Professor in the Reading Department at the StateUniversity of New York at Albany. He has taught in the United Kingdom andin the US in both elementary and secondary schools. For the past 15 years,he has been working closely with a small number of school districts helpingteachers rethink their K-8 language arts programs. Sean received his B.A. and M.A. in History at Trinity College, DublinUniversity (Ireland), and his Ed.D. in Reading at Harvard University. For the past four years, Sean has been researching the teaching andlearning of literature in elementary and middle schools, funded througha federal grant to the National Center for the Teaching and Learning ofLiterature at SUNY-Albany.

Engaging and reader friendly, this book provides a rationale for themes, a thorough explanation of a variety of themes and ways to put them together, and a series of examples of themes in action.