Mary Lynch – författare

Cultivating Readers introduces a six-step approach for cultivating and growing complete readers who have the will to read.  It shows teachers how to create classrooms where students understand the value of reading, intimately know who they are as readers, and receive joy and pleasure from text.  From sharing your reading life to getting to know your students to modelling the habits of a reader, you will find strategies to use to set the foundation for a classroom of enthusiastic readers.

The 6 essential steps for nurturing writers who have the will to write is the core of this practical book. Based on extensive classroom experience, the book explores how teachers can help students tap into their own life experiences, model the habits of a writer, and make use of the tools of the trade. Strategies throughout the book show teachers how to create an environment that helps students see writing as a rewarding experience in and outside the classroom. Powerful real-life anecdotes and ready-to-use activities support this guide to developing classrooms full of thoughtful, passionate writers.

In 1977, an RUC police officer pulled the trigger of a gun at the head of eighteen-year-old Mary Lynch. In that moment, she believed that this was the end. Bracing herself for the explosion, she felt something move out of her body, then from above watched her life unfold. Feeling totally at one with the entire universe, she was ready to go, happy to move on, but it wasn’t her time. Afraid of the consequences of telling others what had happened to her on a human level, she completely blanked it. What she experienced on a spiritual level she didn’t believe there was anyone she could tell. In 2009 Mary wrote her first book, The Long Road Home (Londubh Books, 2010), a memoir of her experiences in what the world called the Northern ‘Troubles’ and how it affected her life. Within months, this second book was started, telling of her involvement in helping those who had moved beyond the veil, including those she would have considered the enemy, using shamanic practices that came naturally to her. 2020 Vision channels the extraordinary story of Mary’s spiritual journey from before conception to a vision of hope in 2020.