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by Nancie Atwell (Author), Ann Atwell Merkel (Author), Atwell Merkel (Author)
Decades of expert teaching and thoughtful observation of readers inform this expanded second edition of The Reading Zone. Dynamic teaching and writing partners, mother and daughter Atwell and Atwell Merkel show how to teach reading as a personal art-a way to develop passionate, critical readers for life-and how to build a schoolwide reading culture on self-selected, voluminous reading. The authors describe the top ten conditions for making engaged classroom reading possible for students at all levels and share the ideas and structures that have helped their own students succeed.
Author Biography
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.
