Meet the standards. Celebrate kids' curiosity and questions. Cover the curriculum. Reach and include everyone. Grow resourceful, engaged citizens. Seriously? With inquiry circles, you seriously can-and Stephanie Harvey and Smokey Daniels can't wait to show you how. "Educators around the country," Steph and Smokey write, "are discovering that inquiry is the secret opportunity offered by new national and state standards." Their Comprehension & Collaboration, Revised Edition, is your end-to-end guide to small-group inquiry projects that work. Successful inquiry isn't simply sticking five kids together and telling them to research a topic. So Steph and Smokey share four kinds of inquiry units of increasing richness with all the teaching and planning resources you need.
