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Wondrous Words: Writers and Writing in the Elementary Classroom Written by Katie Wood Ray National Council of Teachers of English, 1999, 317pp., ISBN 978-0-8141-5816-6
My grandmother made rag rags. The undersides of those rags were messy with loose threads showing, uneven bits of fabric, and always a lump or two. The unidentifiable bit of light blue in the rag was seen on the underside as the piece of old shirt that it actually was. Yet all was woven into a pleasing pattern on the side presented for public view.
In Wondrous Words, Katie Wood Ray invites us to not simply appreciate the finished product, but to closely and critically examine the...