Prologue: The use and abuse of children's literature -- Conversations with children: Extending oral and written response to literature / Susan Lehr -- "The poem as a door": Linking poetry with learning across the curriculum / Barbara Chatton / Sharing poetry in the classroom: Building a concept of poem / Carol J. Fisher -- Wordspinning: Children writing poetry -- Amy A. McClure.
What writers do: A year in third grade -- Dawna Lisa Buchanan-Berrigan / Exploring the roots of fantasy with Mollie Hunter's A Stranger Came Ashore -- Barbara Z. Kiefer / There is much to see and think about in book illustrations -- Patricia J. Cianciolo / Planning for literature across the curriculum -- Jean and Ian Malloch with Nanci Francis.
Creating a classroom community for literature and literacy -- Elizabeth L. Strong / Using literature to open the literate world to reading recovery students: Lessons from Willie -- Carol A. Lyons / Children's literature: The focal point of an early literacy learning program -- Andrea McCarrier / Linking picture storybooks and adaptations from reading recovery to the instruction of adult beginning readers -- Darcy Bradley.