Cultivating a Child's Imagination Through Gardening

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Lead children to literacy and learning along the garden path with books and activities designed to spark interest and imagination. Each of these 45 lessons focuses on a specific book about gardening and offers related activities-such as reading, writing, poetry, word play, music, dancing, and dramatics-to enhance creativity and build literacy skills. In addition, this resource lists more books to read with each lesson and concludes with an annotated bibliography of focus books. A great companion to Beyond the Bean Seed. Grades K-6.

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NANCY ALLEN JURENKA is Professor, Education Department, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington. ROSANNE J. BLASS is Visiting Professor, College of Education, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg.