Nancy Dean (1) (1945–)
Author of Voice Lessons: Classroom Activities to Teach Diction, Detail, Imagery, Syntax, and Tone
For other authors named Nancy Dean, see the disambiguation page.
Works by Nancy Dean
Voice Lessons: Classroom Activities to Teach Diction, Detail, Imagery, Syntax, and Tone (2013) 40 copies
Finding voice : introductory lessons to teach reading and writing of complex text (2016) 2 copies, 1 review
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1945-01-19
- Gender
- female
- Short biography
- Nancy Dean, Ed.S., is a professor emerita at the P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. During her 36 years in education, she has taught middle- and high-school English, special education, reading, debate, social studies, English for speakers of other languages, and Advanced Placement English.
Committed to school reform and meaningful professional development, Nancy has worked extensively with teachers and school leaders in both urban and rural schools. She serves on the leadership teams of the National Literacy Project and the Florida Reading Initiative and works as a lead trainer for both of these organizations.
In addition, she is a national consultant in secondary literacy and literacy leadership and director of Leadership through Reading, a cross-age tutoring program. Nancy’s areas of expertise include
•The reading-writing connection through the teaching of voice
•Content-area literacy
•Working with literacy teams to build school literacy action plans •Reading instruction for struggling readers
•Building a school culture of literacy
•*Cross-age tutoring for enhanced literacy instructionbr>
Contact Nancy at ndean@NationalLiteracyProject.org or through Maupin House Publishing. - Nationality
- USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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Reviews
By coincidence, the same day I received this book for review, I read a current blog post by a popular children’s book author who stated that the way he learned to write was by reading. In other words, but reading widely, he picked up on the how to write and managed to create his own voice in his journey through literature. Here are two authors who propose and provide a step by step process for a student to create voice during writing as if it were a skill to be developed. It is exactly the show more opposite approach that is so common in education. Do we learn to read through all the detailed reading instruction or by just reading Stephen Krashen certainly has ideas about this one saying that it is much better to read widely as the way to develop reading skill. Whatever your bent or the preference of your teachers, if you like the skill based approach, then, this is a book to consider. It is essentially a plethora of one-page handouts in sequence that can be reproduced for the student who then does sheet one, two, three…etc. Lesson topics include: Wonderful Words, Dazzling Detail, Irritable Imagery, Fabulous Figurative Language, Tricky Tone, etc. Secretly, I think a bit of both strategies depending on the needs of individual learners is probably the best practice. Is variety the spice of learning? So, here is a recommended title if you appreciate skill-based learning. show less
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- Works
- 5
- Members
- 64
- Popularity
- #264,967
- Rating
- 2.7
- Reviews
- 1
- ISBNs
- 15
- Languages
- 1
