Books by Peter Johnston

Using the guiding principles from Peter Johnston's best-selling professional resources, Choice Words and Opening Minds, Peter and six colleagues began a journey to create environments in which children meaningfully engage with each other through reading, writing, making, and discussing books.

Shows how the words teachers choose affect the worlds students inhabit in the classroom, and ultimately their futures. It explains how to engage children with more productive talk and to create classrooms that support not only students' intellectual development, but their development as human beings.