The Reading Zone by Nancie Atwell
Long an advocate of frequent, voluminous reading in schools, the author draws on evidence gathered in twenty years of classroom teaching to make the case for reading workshop more powerful than ever. The book establishes the top ten conditions for making engaged classroom reading possible for students at all levels and provides the practical support and structures necessary for achieving them. For use with Grades K-12.Nancie Atwell is a well-known educator in the United States. and all throughout the world She dedicated the $1 million award she received from the Varkey Foundation's inaugural Global Teacher Award to the Center for Teaching and Learning, the K-8 demonstration school she built in Edgecomb, Maine, in 1990. Nancie's classic, now in its third edition, In the Middle, has inspired generations of teachers; in it, she discusses her teaching experience and the strategies she created that led to her nomination. In the Middle has been dubbed the greatest book on literacy education ever written in this nation by Thomas Newkirk.
For more information on the book and Nancie, go to Heinemann.com/InTheMiddle. Nancie has been teaching middle school English for almost forty years and is the first classroom teacher to receive the NCTE David H. Smith Award. Mina P. Russell Award and MLA Russell Award Both for excellent research in the teaching of English, the Shaughnessy Prize.
She was also named Distinguished Middle School English Teacher by NCTE and River of Words Poetry Teacher of the Year by River of Words. Middlebury College and the University of New Hampshire have both awarded her honorary doctorates. Nancie's Heinemann books include Systems to Transform Your Classroom and School, which takes teachers inside her award-winning school to learn about the innovations that have the greatest impact on achievement and community; Lessons That Change Writers, a year's worth of teaching straight from Nancie's file cabinets; and Name the World: A Year of Poems and Lessons, which encourages teachers to name the world through poetry and lessons. Writing in the Middle and Reading in the Middle are two DVDs that allow teachers to join her in her workshop as she gives lessons and holds conferences that improve her students' literacy - and their lives.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780439926447 |
| ISBN 10 | 0439926440 |
| Title | The Reading Zone |
| Author | Nancie Atwell |
| Series | Bright Idea |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Scholastic Teaching Resources |
| Year published | 2007-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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