The Reading Zone, 2nd Edition: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780545948746)

A teacher since 1973, Nancie Atwell founded the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) in 1990. She is the recipient of the inaugural Global Teacher Prize, and is the first classroom teacher to receive the major research awards in the field of language arts, the M.L.A. Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize and NCTE's David H. Russell Award. Atwell is the author of the classic text for teachers In the Middle.



Anne McLeod Merkel, is a teacher of grades 7-8 writing, reading, and history with the Center for Teaching and Learning since 2013. Merkel taught sixth grade in the Washington, D.C. public school system and taught grades 6-8 at Friends Community School in College Park, Maryland

Ann Merkel has been teaching at the Center for Teaching and Learning since 2013. Merkel is a Graduate from Amherst College. She coordinates the Center for Teaching and Learning's intern program for visiting teachers who wish to adopt the CTL's award-winning methods for teaching and writing. Merkel presents about her work across the country.