The Reading Zone! By Nancie Atwell

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The Reading Zone!By Nancie Atwell

• Amanda Goss Tim Howle

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The Reading Zone

• To take poetic license from Rod Serling
• You're traveling through another dimension -- a
  dimension not only of sight and sound but of
  mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose
  boundaries are that of imagination. That's a
  signpost up ahead your next stop the Reading
  Zone!

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Key Concepts

• Reading for Pleasure
• The right to choose
• The right to look ahead or to stop
• Reading Workshops
• This is a true paradigm shift!

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What Atwell says about the Reading Zone!

• http//teacher.scholastic.com/products/scholasticp
  rofessional/authors/ta_atwell_readingzone.htm

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What Atwell says about Student Choice!

• http//teacher.scholastic.com/products/scholasticp
  rofessional/authors/ta_atwell_studentchoice.htm

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What Atwell says about creating passionate
readers!

• http//teacher.scholastic.com/products/scholasticp
  rofessional/authors/ta_atwell_avidreaders.htm

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Its all about engagement!

• Students must learn to enjoy and love reading.
• Atwell believes in voluminous reading and the
  only way to do that is through student choice and
  interest.
• Reading workshops are a great idea!
• Book talks

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What we need?

• Better classroom libraries based on student
  interests.
• Move away from classroom reading selections in
  which the entire class reads one selected book.
• Invoke the Pleasure Principle!

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Conclusion