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9780867093742

In the Middle: New Understandings About Writing, Reading, and Learning

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  • ISBN13:

    9780867093742

  • ISBN10:

    0867093749

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-02-11
  • Publisher: Greenwood Heinemann
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Summary

Nancie Atwell reflects on the ten years of her teaching experience since writing the first edition of the seminal work, In the Middle .

Author Biography

NANCIE ATWELL teaches seventh-and eighth-grade writing, reading, and history at the Center for Teaching and Learning, a K-8 demonstration school she founded in Edgecomb, Maine, in 1990. Nancie was the first classroom teacher to receive the NCTE David H. Russell Award and the MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize for distinguished research in the teaching of English.

Table of Contents

Always Beginning<BR>
Learning How to Teach Writing<BR>
Learning How to Teach Reading<BR>
Making the Best of Adolescence<BR>
Writing and Reading Workshop<BR>
Getting Ready<BR>
Getting Started<BR>
Minilessons<BR>
Responding to Writers and Writing<BR>
Responding to Readers and Reading<BR>
Valuing and Evaluating<BR>
Teaching with a Capital "T"<BR>
Taking Off the Top of My Head<BR>
Call Home the Child: Memoir<BR>
Hanging with Big Sis: Fiction<BR>
Finding Poetry Everywhere<BR>
Taking Care of Business<BR>
Appendixes<BR>
:A. Materials for Writing, Reading, and Publishing<BR>
B. Ways Student Writers Can Go Public<BR>
C. Kinds of Writing That Emerge in Writing Workshop<BR>
D. Writing Survey<BR>
E. Reading Survey<BR>
F. Student Writing Record/Sample Record<BR>
G. Student Reading Record/Sample Record<BR>
H. Personal Spelling List/Sample List<BR>
Weekly Word Study/Sample Study<BR>
J. Peer Writing Conference Record<BR>
K. Editing Checksheet<BR>
L. Favorite Adolescent Literature<BR>
M. Favorite Collections of Poetry<BR>
N. Quotes for the Walls of a Writing-Reading Workshop<BR>
O. Final Self-Evaluation of Writing and Reading<BR>
P. Weekly Homework Assignment Sheet<BR>
Q. Recommended Resources for Teachers of Middle School Writing, Reading, and Literature

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