In the Middle: New Understanding About Writing, Reading, and Learning (Workshop Series)

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 428.00712
EAN: 9780867093742
Edition: 2 Sub
ISBN: 0867093749
Label: Boynton/Cook
Manufacturer: Boynton/Cook
Number Of Items: 2
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: February 11, 1998
Publisher: Boynton/Cook
Studio: Boynton/Cook

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Nancie Atwell reflects on the ten years of her teaching experience since writing the first edition of the seminal work, In the Middle.




Rating: - Great resource for teachers
This book is essential for any english or elemtary school teacher. I teach social studies and found many ideas within it informative and relevant. The book is written in an approachable way, filled with mini-lessons and examples of her own students writting. An easy read and needed guide for great practice within the classroom. I highly recomend this.

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Rating: - Excellent!
A book that helped inspire me to become a teacher. Some other reviewers may not find it totally "practical" for them to adopt, but anyone with common sense would know that you take what works best for you from as many legitimate resources as possible and adapt.

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Rating: - Based on years of First Hand experience
You can let students have choices about what to write and still have formal guidelines, unlike what the other reviewer/teacher wrote. Nancie Atwell's book is based on years of her own first-hand experiences in the classroom, and, as someone who assigns and reads well over 1000 formal essays per school year to over 200 students, I'll listen to Atwell's advice before some burned out teacher's rantings about the need to drill, drill, drill.

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Rating: - Condensed version, please
I bought two copies of this book from Amazon, for myself and my class aide, on the strength of the other teachers' recommendations here. The book is as good as the most enthusiastic reviewers say it is, but it is seriously flawed, and to some degree self-contradictory, because it talks too much. As good as are the author's approaches, she doesn't really need 484 pages, plus numerous appendices, to get the message across. In fact, she buries the message in verbosity.

Note that other ... Read More

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Rating: - A Shift in Teaching
Atwell's research and dedication to the true teaching of literacy in classrooms of all levels has changed my philosophy of teaching forever. Those who judge her approach without attempting to understand it, are only missing out on an innovative and fresh approach to how English should be taught.

In my own classroom of tenth graders, I have gone from yawns and glazed eyes to students who leave my classroom at the end of the school year saying "I could write for pages and pages about how ... Read More

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