M. Colleen Cruz - Writers Read Better: Nonfiction: 50+ Paired Lessons That Turn Writing Craft Work Into Powerful Genre Reading

Colleen offers literacy teachers a valuable comprehension instruction hack: help students get inside the brains of the writers they read by doing the same kind of writing themselves before they read. She argues convincingly that the more students understand how something was made, the better theyll understand it when they encounter it as readers. She doesnt just offer compelling research to prove it; she offers teachers dozens of paired lessons so that students will read and write information texts with more power. The lessons are streamlined to allow students maximum time for practice and application, and to help the busy teacher go from the page to the classroom quickly and almost effortlessly. I encourage all upper elementary and middle school teachers to give these lesson sets a try!

Jen Serravallo, author of The Reading Strategies Book and The Writing Strategies Book

Most professional books on teaching nonfiction focus on teaching writing or reading, but not both. In this unique book, Colleen Cruz shows us how to teach complementary writing and reading lessons that will help students use what theyre learning about nonfiction writing to help them become more powerful nonfiction readers.

Carl Anderson, author of Hows It Going? and The Teachers Guide to Writing Conferences

This book refuels your energy to think about the way you plan and teach reading and writing. Colleen holds strong to the tenets of workshopchoice, voice, and agencythen beautifully blends the lessons and theory with her vast experience in classrooms, new research on writing and reading, and the dance we do with it all now in the digital world. The structure of the book and the lessons are completely accessible for all teachers, the way Colleen believes the learning and craft to be accessible for all students. Its a game-changer for those looking to augment and reflect on their current workshop model and for those who are going to give it a go. Colleen is with you every step of the way.

Sara K. Ahmed, author, speaker, and literacy coach at NIST International School, Bangkok, Thailand

For Kathleen, my first true reading teacher. Your belief in the power of literacy, and the power it gives children and their teachers, seeps through every pore of this book. You are missed.

Writers Read Better: Nonfiction

50+ Paired Lessons That Turn Writing Craft Work Into Powerful Genre Reading

• M. Colleen Cruz

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Names: Cruz, Colleen, author.

Title: Writers read better : nonfiction : 50+ paired lessons that turn writing craft work into powerful genre reading / Colleen Cruz.

Description: Thousand Oaks, California : Corwin, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018012836 | ISBN 9781506311234 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Language arts (Secondary) | English languageComposition and exercisesStudy and teaching (Secondary) | Reading (Secondary)

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