Visual Tools For Differentiating Reading & Writing Instruction: Grades 3-8 - Tapa blanda

Linda Rief teaches eighth grade at Oyster River Middle School in Durham, New Hampshire. Her published books include 100 Quickwrites, Inside the Writer's-Reader's Notebook, and Seeking Diversity: Language Arts with Adolescents. With Kylene Beers and Robert Probst she co-edited Adolescent Literacy: Turning Promise Into Practice, and for five years she co-edited NCTE's Voices from the Middle journal. In 2000 she was the recipient of NCTE's Edwin A. Hoey Award for Outstanding Middle School Educator in the English Language Arts.

Amy Levy Rocci has 12 years experience as an elementary educator. For the last three years she has developed and implemented an enrichment program that provides critical thinking activities for all students. A presenter at educational venues nationally and locally, Rocci received a BA in Psychology from George Washington University and a MEd from the University of New Hampshire.