"Inventing a Classroom is the story of how "the Sunshine room," Caryl Crowells third-grade classroom, invents itself and how in this process the children themselves are continually inventing oral and written language, culture and curriculum. Caryl, with co-author Kathryn Whitmore, carries readers through several critical events in the life of this bicultural classroom within a bilingual working-class neighborhood."@en
"What are the patterns of teaching and learning that make a classroom holistic? How do children invent oral and written language? How do they create the culture and curriculum of a classroom? How does the spirit of community and collaboration develop among children and teachers? What are the relationships between literacy, schooling, and socialization as they form among the children? These are a few of the broad questions that Kathy Whitmore and Caryl Crowell answer in this absorbing portrait of Caryl's third-grade classroom, "the Sunshine Room." Over the span of a school year, we watch the students in this bicultural classroom within a bilingual, working-class neighborhood work and develop together as a community of learners. It is the story of how the Sunshine Room, like many whole language classrooms, invents itself; and how in this process the children themselves are continually inventing oral and written language, culture, and curriculum."

"Inventing a Classroom Life in a Bilingual, Whole Language Learning Community"@en
"Inventing a classroom life in a bilingual, whole language learning community"@en
"Inventing a classroom : life in a bilingual, whole language learning community"
"Inventing a classroom : life in a bilingual, whole language learning community"@en
"Inventing a Classroom: Life in a Bilingual, Whole Language Learning Community"