{"product_id":"9780325076751","title":"More About the Authors: Authors and Illustrators Mentor Our Youngest Writers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"My hope is that \u003ci\u003eMore About the Authors\u003c\/i\u003e will help you see how shifting your thinking about mentors can make such a difference in your teaching.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Lisa Cleaveland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not your typical book on mentor texts. Lisa Cleaveland will show you why in her classroom authors and illustrators do the mentoring, not their texts. While this may seem like mere semantics, it's actually a singularly powerful instructional shift. \"Books don't make themselves,\" writes Lisa, \"authors and illustrators do, and my students know this because they make books too.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbout the Authors \u003c\/i\u003eintroduced tens of thousands of teachers to Lisa's primary writing workshop. Now she shares what she considers the most crucial aspect of her teaching. \"When authors and illustrators are mentors, you teach students more about \u003ci\u003ehow \u003c\/i\u003eto learn from their mentors than \u003ci\u003ewhat\u003c\/i\u003e to learn.\" With Lisa you'll:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eengage children by helping them discover mentor authors\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003econnect writers to the curriculum as they notice and name the moves their mentors make\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eplan powerful units of study around mentor authors\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eposition students to mentor one another.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlong 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. You'll see firsthand how closely examining a mentor's work can lead little ones to big insights about writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What I have realized,\" writes Lisa Cleaveland, \"is that it's \u003ci\u003eall \u003c\/i\u003eabout finding mentors for writing and illustrating.\" Find out just how powerful this slight shift in thinking can be as you find out \u003ci\u003eMore About the Authors.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heinemann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020058738928,"sku":"9780325076751","price":25.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780325076751_p0.jpg?v=1763683740","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780325076751","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}