Reading like a writer.

This week in another class we were talking about comprehension skills in middle school. One of the big problems in middle school is that most content teachers don't focus on literacy skills. We were discussing comprehension and how children with high level skills read compared to how children with low levels skills read. One of the points was that teachers should get the students to "read like a writer." I thought it was interesting to hear this outside of Ray and in a different context. Instead of focusing on "reading like a writer" in the process of writing we were looking at using it as a tool for comprehension. Which makes complete sense. If kids are thinking about the hows and whys of authors they are considering more then just the craft of writing they are making predictions about the text itself. It was really neat to have this skill turned a different way and really made it prevalent in my thinking. After all anything that will help you multitask while teaching is I'm sure a good thing.