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In the Middle, Third Edition: A Lifetime of Learning About Writing, Reading, and Adolescents 1st Edition
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“The third edition of In the Middle is my invitation to English teachers, both veterans and novices, to understand writing and reading from the inside and recognize our potential to influence our students’ literacy for a lifetime. Like the two that preceded it, this edition represents my current best set of blueprints for how I build and maintain a writing-reading workshop―the expectations, demonstrations, models, choices, resources, rules and rituals, pieces of advice, words of caution, and ways of thinking, planning, looking, and talking that make it possible for every student to read with understanding and pleasure and aspire to and produce effective writing.”
―Nancie Atwell
With 80 percent new material, In the Middle, Third Edition brings Nancie Atwell’s methods up to date. Nancie guides newcomers to a rich, satisfying practice while sharing her latest innovations and refinements with those who have made In the Middle their teaching touchstone.
Grounded in her classroom practice and in response to questions and requests from twenty years of professional development workshops, Nancie provides:
- detailed procedures for organizing the classroom for workshop teaching and a first-week launch sequence
- hundreds of minilessons and reproducibles that make workshop teaching inviting and doable
- hundreds of new pieces of student writing to use as mentor texts―many are national prize winners
- new, detailed genre studies of poetry, memoirs, reviews, essays, reportage, humor and homage, and short fiction
- a new look at writing conferences, including red flags to notice and strategies for responding to them
- techniques for conferring with individuals about the books they're reading
- a revamping of her widely-adopted literary letters as letter-essays that more than satisfy today’s standards for critical reading
This is the chronicle of Nancie Atwell’s courageous, compelling journey. Just as the second edition documented her evolution from 1987, this book shows how she continues to shape and refine her teaching, based on her perceptions of what students need and her growing knowledge of literature and the craft of writing. As Nancie describes it, “The third edition of In the Middle is everything I’ve learned over the past three decades that makes writing-reading workshop the only logical way to teach English.”
- ISBN-100325028133
- ISBN-13978-0325028132
- Edition1st
- PublisherHEINEMANN
- Publication dateNovember 5, 2014
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions7.5 x 1.19 x 9.2 inches
- Print length640 pages
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Nancie Atwell is one of the most respected educators in the U.S. and across the world. Winner of the Varkey Foundation's inaugural Global teacher Prize, she donated the $1 million award to the Center for Teaching and Learning, the K-8 demonstration school she founded in Edgecomb, Maine, in 1990. Nancie's classic In the Middle, now in its third edition, has inspired generations of teachers; in it she describes her teaching journey and the practices she developed that led to her nomination. Thomas Newkirk calls In the Middle "the greatest book on literacy teaching ever written in this country." Visit Heinemann.com/InTheMiddle for more about the book and Nancie.
A middle school English teacher for almost forty years, Nancie is also the first classroom teacher to be awarded the NCTE David H. Russell Award and the MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize, both for distinguished research in the teaching of English. She was also honored as NCTE's Outstanding Middle School English Teacher and as the River of Words Poetry Teacher of the Year. She has received honorary doctoral degrees from Middlebury College and the University of New Hampshire.
Nancie's books for Heinemann include Systems to Transform Your Classroom and School, which takes teachers inside her award-winning school to learn about the innovations that make the biggest impact on achievement and community; Lessons That Change Writers, a year's worth of instruction straight from Nancie's file cabinets; and Naming the World: A Year of Poems and Lessons, which helps teachers to jumpstart their teaching of writing and literature each day by unpacking a poem with their students. Her DVDs Writing in the Middle and Reading in the Middle give teachers a seat in her workshop as she presents lessons and conducts conferences that transform her students' literacy—and their lives.
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- Publisher : HEINEMANN; 1st edition (November 5, 2014)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 640 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0325028133
- ISBN-13 : 978-0325028132
- Reading age : 9 - 16 years
- Grade level : 4 - 10
- Item Weight : 2.34 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.5 x 1.19 x 9.2 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #474,112 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,506 in Educational Certification & Development
- #2,453 in Education (Books)
- #4,136 in Instruction Methods
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- Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2022Given as a gift for a first-year teacher from an experienced writing teacher. Establishes a great foundation for teaching middle school writing.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2021This book is amazing! I learned not only the basics of teaching ELA but also great methods of really engaging tune to in the reading and writing process and helping them become life long readers. I will be keeping my rental permanently I find this book so helpful, and full of great ideas and resources. Highly recommend to any aspiring ELA middle school teacher.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2017Reviewed my copy of Nancie's 2nd edition of this book as I started a new page in my teaching career--- teaching Middle School. This year, my 2nd year in Middle School, I purchased her 3rd edition, and am thoroughly loving it. It has provided me with a rich basis for my instruction with my middle school English Language Arts students, and would highly recommend it for all Middle School English Language Arts teachers.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2016Excellent strategies for teaching grades 4-9 literacy. Easy to read narrative style. Concrete examples of how to establish a literacy classroom.
- Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2023I believe I did purchase the used copy which included a few marks and worn pages but other than that it was in good condition.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2020Nice new edition. As good as the first one!
- Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2017THis is a great book. I wish I could fully implement it in my classroom but there are district and school directives I must include in my curriculum. I have to be content with implementing as many of her ideas and methods as I can.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2015Education officials who are reliant on systemic testing to improve 'quality' need to read this book. Nancie Atwell puts humanity back into the teaching profession as its core value.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Great book!