Harnessing the power of poetry, Nancie Atwell's "Naming the World: A Year of Poems and Lessons" empowers adolescents to make sense of their personal place in the world while honing their critical reading and writing skills. "Naming the World"'s 200+ poems and accompanying five-to-ten-minute lessons are used by Nancie every day to jumpstart her reading and writing workshops. Poetry is the foundation upon which her students build excellences as writers in every genre. This is your chance to make the first few minutes of your Language Arts class really count! 
 The 200+ Poems: are compiled from contemporary poets were nominated by Nancie's students as their favorites speak to adolescent interests and issues include poems by Nancie's kids to teach and inspire yours. The 150 Lessons: are used daily by Nancie to jumpstart her reading-writing workshop apply a range of interactive and independent learning strategies present the language Nancie uses with her students.

Naming the World: A Year of Poems and Lessons

Literature & Fiction

Atwell, Nancie

History & Criticism

Heinemann

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Lessons That Change Writers Electronic Binder

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In Lessons That Change Writers, Nancie has narrowed and deepened her conversation with teachers, to focus on the minilesson as a vehicle for helping students improve their writing. She shares over a hundred of these writing lessons which are described by her students as "the best of the best." The lessons fall into the following four categories that provide the structure for this book: Lessons about Topics: ways to develop ideas for pieces of writing that will matter to writers and to their readers Lessons about Principles of Writing: ways to think and write deliberately to create literature Lessons about Genre: in which we observe and name the ways that good free verse poems, formatted poetry, essays, short stories, memoirs, thank-you letters, profiles, parodies, and book reviews work and Lessons about Conventions: what readers' eyes and minds have been trained to expect, and how marks and forms function to give writing more voice and power and to make reading predictable and easy.Learn more about Lessons That Change Writers by visiting www.lessonsthatchangewriters.com where you can review the table of contents, download sample lessons, read a passage from the introduction, and watch a lesson walk through!
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Making Believe on Paper presents primary-grade educators with the opportunity to learn from an extraordinary classroom teacher about how and why to invite and invest in make-believe. - Nancie Atwell Author of In the Middle Little kids delight in telling tall tales - of talking animals, princesses, or good triumphing over evil. Can you turn their enthusiasm for fiction into high-quality writing instruction? Absolutely, says Ted DeMille - and he has the classroom processes and student writing samples to back it up. In Making Believe on Paper, Ted shows what a magical and instructive first writing experience fiction can be for primary-aged children. Making Believe on Paper presents hands-on strategies and the tools you'll need to help young children create fully formed, beautifully illustrated, and powerful pieces of fiction. With Ted's help, you'll guide students from inspiration to finished pieces as you: 
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<li>develop children's knowledge of fiction's components through author study and read-alouds </li> <li>use drawing to shape students' ideas, then help them make the transition to writing </li> <li>encourage high-quality writing through mentor texts </li> <li>give kids a chance to put it all together by writing fairy tales. </li> </ul> You'll cherish Making Believe on Paper for its charm, gentle wit, and effective teaching. You'll appreciate how children's innate creativity can nudge them toward independence. You'll see a roadmap for the amazing progress young writers can make through student samples both in the book and in full color on its accompanying website. In short, you'll turn to Making Believe on Paper time and again for ideas and strategies that work. Let students' wonderful stories inspire you. Read Making Believe on Paper and trust Ted DeMille to help you turn students' excitement for telling tales into engaging, lasting writing instruction.

Making Believe on Paper: Fiction Writing with Young Children

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Demille, Ted

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

"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: <ul>
<li>detailed procedures for organizing the classroom for workshop teaching and a first-week launch sequence </li> <li>hundreds of minilessons and reproducibles that make workshop teaching inviting and doable </li> <li>hundreds of new pieces of student writing to use as mentor texts-many are national prize winners </li> <li>new, detailed genre studies of poetry, memoirs, reviews, essays, reportage, humor and homage, and short fiction </li> <li>a new look at writing conferences, including red flags to notice and strategies for responding to them</li> <li>techniques for conferring with individuals about the books they're reading</li> <li>a revamping of her widely-adopted literary letters as letter-essays that more than satisfy today's standards for critical reading </li> </ul>
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."

In the Middle, Third Edition: A Lifetime of Learning About Writing, Reading, and Adolescents

Words, Language & Grammar

Nancie Atwell DVD Bundle: Writing in the Middle + Reading in the Middle

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

"My role is to demonstrate why people write, communicate specific expectations, establish structures that help kids focus and be deliberate, teach relevant lessons they can put to use to see a difference in the quality of their writing, and advise them as someone who has learned some things along the way about how good writing looks and sounds." -Nancie Atwell Writing in the Middle is the opportunity of a teaching lifetime: to watch Nancie Atwell at work, side by side with her students as they become skillful, intentional writers. On this staff development DVD, Nancie shows us the methods that have made In the Middle a celebrated classic. You'll see how she helps students develop topics they care about, provides practical advice that transforms both writing and writer, and creates the conditions that lead her students to finish more than twenty pieces of writing each year and to win recognition for their excellence as writers. Nancie gives us a guided tour of her classroom, a seat in her writing workshop, and a CD full of before-and-after samples of her students' work, plus her own reproducible forms. We see how she:  sets clear expectations and ground rules for writing workshop  talks with individuals and helps them move their writing forward, toward literature  presents accessible minilessons that demonstrate the processes and practices of effective writers  inspires every student she teaches to engage, produce, and improve as a writer.   Thirty years in the making, Writing in the Middle highlights the practices that have made Nancie one of America's most respected and influential educators. It inspires teachers to new heights so that we, like Nancie, can look back in June and say, "My students and I worked this year. The work was real. And I was of use to my kids." Video Run Time: 1 Hr. 51 Min. Learn about Nancie's companion DVD Reading in the Middle. Click here to save 25% when you buy Reading in the Middle and Writing in the Middle together.

Writing in the Middle DVD: Workshop Essentials

"There are steps teachers and administrators can take-tweaks, if you will-that make a classroom or school a place that's safe for children, one where every student feels noticed and known, one that challenges kids and entices them with the intrinsic rewards of real work done well." -Nancie Atwell Since 1990, Nancie Atwell and the faculty of the K-8 Center for Teaching and Learning have charged themselves with a mission. "Our job is to innovate for the good of children," Nancie writes, "and then to pass along to other teachers the lessons we learn about instruction that makes a difference." Systems to Transform Your Classroom and School makes CTL's powerful innovations accessible to every teacher and administrator. Nancie and her colleagues have created a culture of engagement and excellence by combining smart practices and policies with rich, community-building traditions and rituals. Systems to Transform Your Classroom and School introduces essential practices such as CTL's: <ul>
<li>daily morning meetings</li> <li>student-generated bill of rights</li> <li>school-wide "You can't say you can't play" rule</li> <li>outreach to parents</li> <li>spiraling K-8 curriculum in science and history</li> <li>student-and teacher-self-assessment and goal-setting</li> <li>student-led evaluation conferences</li> <li>systems for school and classroom management</li> <li>workshop approaches to teaching math, reading, and writing-including warmups, mini-lessons, conferences, and rigorous yet kid-friendly expectations based on the research and experience of a faculty of master teachers.</li> </ul>
Nancie invites you to: <ul>
<li>reflect on your own practice and goals</li> <li>view CTL's systems at work on the accompanying DVD</li> <li>read about her school's solutions to common problems of teaching</li> <li>access resources-forms, guidelines, and protocols-developed by the CTL faculty.</li> </ul>
 "If we want students to feel a sense of belonging to something that's bigger than they are," Nancie observes, "it's essential that their teachers feel that way, too." Join your own colleagues, along with long-distance colleagues at the Center for Teaching and Learning, to discover how Systems to Transform Your Classroom and School can help turn your teaching ideals into a practical, successful reality. Read a sample chapter, and watch a sample video clip.

Systems to Transform Your Classroom and School

In Lessons That Change Writers, Nancie has narrowed and deepened her conversation with teachers, to focus on the minilesson as a vehicle for helping students improve their writing. She shares over a hundred of these writing lessons which are described by her students as "the best of the best." The lessons fall into the following four categories that provide the structure for this book: <ul>
<li>Lessons about Topics: ways to develop ideas for pieces of writing that will matter to writers and to their readers </li> <li>Lessons about Principles of Writing: ways to think and write deliberately to create literature </li> <li>Lessons about Genre: in which we observe and name the ways that good free verse poems, formatted poetry, essays, short stories, memoirs, thank-you letters, profiles, parodies, and book reviews work and </li> <li>Lessons about Conventions: what readers' eyes and minds have been trained to expect, and how marks and forms function to give writing more voice and power and to make reading predictable and easy. </li> </ul>
 Lessons That Change Writers includes: <ul>
<li>A book with over a hundred minilessons, along with the theory behind each lesson</li> <li> Online Resources that include of hundreds of reproducibles: <ul>
<li>overheads of principles, approaches, rules, and examples</li> <li>readings for your students</li> <li>classroom posters of essential quotations for aspiring writers</li> <li>examples of work by Nancie's kids-student writings that illustrate the lessons and will instruct and inspire your student writers</li> </ul>
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Lessons That Change Writers

Coming to Know is a book for teachers who are ready to put writing to work across the curriculum. It is written by teachers of grades 3 through 6 who, dissatisfied with encyclopedia-based approaches to content-area writing, asked their students to write as scientists, historians, mathematicians, and literary critics do - to use writing-as-process to discover meaning. One of the subjects of this volume is report writing and ways to help children produce content-area writing that is as personal and meaningful as their stories of their own experiences. Students learn how to take notes in their own words, conduct interviews, record observations, design their first simple research project, select appropriate genres for their research, and apply the techniques of writing workshop in science, social studies, and reading classes. 
 In addition, Coming to Know explores the uses of academic journals, or learning logs. Children speculate, brainstorm, role play, correspond, predict, and ask questions about math, reading, science, and social studies - and demonstrate the power of informal writing to generate thinking. Coming to Know is also about the connections between reading and writing, the effects of using writing to learn on curriculum and planning, and the role of children's literature in teaching science, social studies and math.

Coming to Know: Writing to Learn in the Intermediate Grades

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