In the Middle: New Understandings About Writing, Reading, and Learning
by Nancie Atwell
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The author describes what she has learned about teaching, writing, and reading over twenty-five years as an English teacher, focusing on her experiences after she freed herself and students from a regimented curriculum.Tags
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This is a great book to explore teaching reading and writing. Nancie has great ideas and the book is easy to read. It is more for secondary classrooms.
Some interesting ideas.
One of the best books about teaching reading and writing.
Useful. Take what you can use.
Ideas for teaching middle school kids English
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Nancie Atwell is the author of several books for teachers including Coming to Know: Writing to Learn in the Intermediate Grades; In the Middle: New Understandings About Writing, Reading, and Learning; and Side by Side: Essays on Teaching to Learn. In these books, Atwell provides practical tips for teaching presented with humor, eagerness, and a show more love for students. Teachers throughout the country have accepted her theories and implemented them with great success. Parents interested in their children's education can also greatly benefit from her expertise. Atwell learned and perfected her techniques as a teacher of eighth graders for twelve years. She is now the director of Writing to Learn in the Elementary School, part of the Bread Loaf School of English Project. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Alternate titles
- In the Middle: Writing, Reading, and Learning with Adolescents
- Original publication date
- 1987
- People/Characters
- Nancie Atwell
- Important places
- Boothbay Harbor, Maine, USA
- Epigraph
- . . . the logic by which we teach is not always the logic by which children learn. - Glenda Bissex
- Dedication
- for Toby, and for Anne
- First words
- I confess. I started out as a creationist. The first days of every school year I created; for the next thirty-six weeks I maintained my creation. My curriculum.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And then we dispel the easy, received truths of orthodoxies, welcome students' diverse processes and intentions, and embrace revision as a way of life.
- Original language
- English
Classifications
- Genres
- Tween, Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 428.00712 — Language English & Old English languages Standard English usage (Prescriptive linguistics) standard subdivisions and translation standard subdivisions Education, research, related topics Education; Second language teaching
- LCC
- LB1631 .A72 — Education Theory and practice of education Theory and practice of education Secondary education. High schools
- BISAC
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- 436
- Popularity
- 70,307
- Reviews
- 5
- Rating
- (4.16)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 3
