Nancie Atwell

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

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About the Author

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 show more teaching presented with humor, eagerness, and a 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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Works by Nancie Atwell

The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers (1994) 243 copies, 7 reviews

Lessons That Change Writers (2002) 86 copies, 2 reviews

Coming to Know: Writing to Learn in the Intermediate Grades (Workshop Series) (1980) 49 copies

Naming the World: A Year of Poems and Lessons (2005) 47 copies

Side by Side: Essays on Teaching to Learn (Workshop Series) (1991) 35 copies

In the Middle, Third Edition: A Lifetime of Learning About Writing, Reading, and Adolescents (2014) 26 copies

The Reading Zone, 2nd Edition: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers (2016) 21 copies

Workshop 2: Beyond the Basal (Workshop: By and for Teachers) (1990) 12 copies

Lessons That Change Writers Electronic Binder (2007) 10 copies

Workshop 3: The Politics of Process (Workshop: By and for Teachers) (1991) 10 copies

Workshop 1: Writing and Literature (Workshop: By and for Teachers) (1989) 10 copies

Systems to Transform Your Classroom and School (2013) 3 copies

The Reading Zone 1 copy

A Poem a Day, A Guide to Naming the World 1 copy

Les ateliers de lecture et d'écriture au quotidien: Conseils et stratégies issus de plus de 40 ans d'expérience en… 1 copy

Teaching Writing in a Workshop Fall 2000 1 copy

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Associated Works

Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise into Practice (2007) — Afterword — 114 copies, 3 reviews

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The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled,… by Nancie Atwell

outstanding
argues successfully that the best way to improve students' reading abilities is to give students time and free choice to read books that they find engaging and to read LOTS of them. Summer "assignments" should be to do lots of leisure reading.
presents teaching tips as well.

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pollycallahan | 6 other reviews | Jul 1, 2023 |

In the Middle: New Understandings About Writing,… by Nancie Atwell

Some interesting ideas.

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Bookjoy144 | 4 other reviews | Mar 2, 2022 |

Lessons That Change Writers: Lessons with 3-Ring… by Nancie Atwell

Really flexible lessons that I've used from high school age to primary school. Lots of great student examples and meaningful lesson prompts.

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RachellErnst | 1 other review | Jan 5, 2021 |

The reading zone : how to help kids become skilled,… by Nancie Atwell

Nancie Atwell does a great job explaining how to practically set up a reading workshop. She includes forms to copy to help explain certain processes to students and gives examples of student writing to show teachers how the letter response - letter essays work in the classroom. I will definitely use some of her ideas this year in my reading classroom.

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SuPendleton | 6 other reviews | Jul 27, 2014 |

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