"My hope is that More about the Authors will help you see how shifting your thinking about mentors can make such a difference in your teaching." -Lisa Cleaveland This is not your typical book on Mentor texts.
Lisa\'s classroom was the research ba.
Graves Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Writing.
She was the recipient of the prestigious NCTE/Donald H.
She has been a teacher for twenty seven years and is a National Board Certified Teacher.
about the Author: Lisa Cleaveland starts her writing workshop each day at 9: 00 am sharp. "What I have realized," writes Lisa Cleaveland, "is that it\'s all about finding mentors for writing and illustrating." Find out just how powerful this slight shift in thinking can be as you find out More about the Authors.
You\'ll see firsthand how closely examining a mentor\'s work can lead little ones to big insights about writing.
Along the way, Lisa illustrates the effectiveness of this approach with full-color examples of students\' work as well as transcripts of a question-and-answer session between her Writers and famed children\'s author and illustrator Marla Frazee. "When Authors and Illustrators are mentors, you teach students More about how to learn from their mentors than what to learn." With Lisa you\'ll: engage children by helping them discover Mentor Authors connect Writers to the curriculum as they notice and name the moves their mentors make plan powerful units of study around Mentor Authors position students to Mentor one another.
Now she shares what she considers the most crucial aspect of her teaching. "Books don\'t make themselves," writes Lisa, "Authors and Illustrators do, and my students know this because they make books too." about the Authors introduced tens of thousands of teachers to Lisa\'s primary writing workshop.
While this may seem like mere semantics, it\'s actually a singularly powerful instructional shift.
Lisa Cleaveland will show you why in her classroom Authors and Illustrators do the mentoring, not their texts. "My hope is that More about the Authors will help you see how shifting your thinking about mentors can make such a difference in your teaching." -Lisa Cleaveland This is not your typical book on Mentor texts
