In the Classroom: 4th Grade Scholars

I've written before here about my classroom work with Charlotte's Web, in particular the glorious fun I have introducing my 4th graders to a scholarly approach to reading a book. I'd never considered that you could do such a thing with a children's book until U.C. Knoepflmacher showed me how at a life-changing NEH seminar at Princeton in 1990 and have now done it ever since with my 4th graders.

This year, for the first time, I decided to see if we could rearrange the desks into a true seminar ...