Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-265) and index.
Contents
1. Stories are so important: an introduction -- 2. Meet the sunshine room -- 3. Inventing negotiation: the year begins -- 4. Language and literacy events in the sunshine room -- 5. Inventing curriculum: from Cinderella to the middle ages -- 6. Inventing classroom discourse: children's questions about war -- 7. Inventing culture: bicultural best friends -- 8. Inventing a classroom: the tension between invention and convention.
Appendices. A. Middle ages bibliography -- B. War and peace bibliography -- C. Individual whole language check lists -- D. Excerpt from "The little red riding hood" script.