In the Middle: Writing, Reading, and Learning with Adolescents

In the Middle is a story about Nancie Atwell and her eighth grade students in Boothbay Harbor, Maine - about what she and they have learned together as collaborating writers and readers, and about what goes on in one classroom where instruction has been transformed by a teacher concerned enough to question her own assumptions about teaching. It is also a book about adolescents themselves - how they learn, what they believe and value, and what we can learn from and about them. Particularly rich in the practical details of establishing the classroom as a writing and reading workshop, In the Middle has important implications for all language arts teachers, grades K thru 12.