Introduction: the quest for certainty -- 1. Reading, writing, and friends: challenging my sense of community -- 2. The teachers work for the kids -- 3. Whole language teachers don't have discipline problems, do they? -- 4. Students for whom school is a struggle -- 5. "We only learned what the boys did": doing (and undoing) gender in a third-grade classroom -- 6. Certain knowledge in an uncertain world: creating a rich language-learning environment in a third-grade classroom -- 7. Multicultural literature: who gets to represent whom, why, and how? -- 8. Spelling is ... a worry for me.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-196) and index.