The Reading Zone, 2nd Edition: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers - Softcover

Atwell, Nancie

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9780545948746: The Reading Zone, 2nd Edition: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0545948746 ISBN 13: 9780545948746
Publisher: Scholastic Professional, 2016

Synopsis

Long advocates of frequent, voluminous reading in schools, the authors draw on evidence gathered in 20 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.

2015 Global Teacher Prize winner Nancie Atwell shares strategies for helping students become skilled, passionate, habitual, and critical readers.

KEY FEATURES:

  1. Discusses the real meaning of close reading, collaborative, and literary discussions
  2. Focuses on teacher-student reading conferences
  3. Provides an emphasis on the content-rich nature of fiction
  4. Links to expert-tip videos

New chapters included:

  • Writing About Reading
  • Literary Discussion
  • In Defense of Fiction

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About the Author

A teacher since 1973, Nancie Atwell founded the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) in 1990. She is the recipient of the inaugural Global Teacher Prize, and is the first classroom teacher to receive the major research awards in the field of language arts, the M.L.A. Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize and NCTE’s David H. Russell Award. Atwell is the author of the classic text for teachers In the Middle.



Anne McLeod Merkel, is a teacher of grades 7-8 writing, reading, and history with the Center for Teaching and Learning since 2013. Merkel taught sixth grade in the Washington, D.C. public school system and taught grades 6-8 at Friends Community School in College Park, Maryland

Ann Merkel has been teaching at the Center for Teaching and Learning since 2013. Merkel is a Graduate from Amherst College. She coordinates the Center for Teaching and Learning’s intern program for visiting teachers who wish to adopt the CTL’s award-winning methods for teaching and writing. Merkel presents about her work across the country.

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Publisher
Scholastic Professional
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0545948746
ISBN 13 
9780545948746
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
160
Rating
  • 4.32 out of 5 stars
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