In the Middle : New Understandings about Writing, Reading and Learning

Contents: I. Always Beginning 1. Learning How to Teach Writing 2. Learning How to Teach Reading 3. Making the Best of Adolescence II. Writing and Reading Workshop 4. Getting Ready 5. Getting Started 6. Minilessons 7. Responding to Writers and Writing 8. Responding to Readers and Reading 9. Valuing and Evaluating III. Teaching with a Capital "T" 10. Taking Off the Top of My Head 11. Call Home the Child: Memoir 12. Hanging with Big Sis: Fiction 13. Finding Poetry Everywhere 14. Taking Care of Business