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Side by Side: Essays on Teaching to Learn

by Nancie Atwell, Nancie Atwell (Editor), Thomas Newkirk
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Overview

Nancie Atwell explores the conditions that make it possible for children-and their teachers-to become writers and readers.

Synopsis

Nancie Atwell explores the conditions that make it possible for childrenand their teachersto become writers and readers.

About the Author, Nancie Atwell

NANCIE ATWELL teaches seventh-and eighth-grade writing, reading, and history at the Center for Teaching and Learning, a K-8 demonstration school she founded in Edgecomb, Maine, in 1990. Nancie was the first classroom teacher to receive the NCTE David H. Russell Award and the MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize for distinguished research in the teaching of English.

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Book Details

Published
August 1, 1991
Publisher
Heinemann
Pages
164
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780435085865

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