Writing and Reading Connections: Bridging Research and Practice

Writing skills are essential for success in the 21st-century school and workplace, but most classrooms devote far more time to reading instruction, with writing often addressed in isolation or excluded. In this insightful professional development resource and text, leading researchers discuss why and how to integrate writing and reading instruction in grades K-12 and beyond. Contributors explore how to harness writing–reading connections to support learning in such areas as phonics and spelling, vocabulary, understanding genre and text structure, and self-regulated strategy development, as well as across content areas and disciplines. Special considerations in teaching emergent bilingual students and struggling literacy learners are described. User-friendly features include guiding questions, classroom examples, and action questions that help teachers translate the research and concepts into practice. An NCTQ Exemplary Text for Reading Instruction

Table of Contents:
I. Introduction to Writing and Reading Connections 1. The History of Writing and Reading Connections, Timothy Shanahan II. Specific Applications of Writing and Reading Connections 2. A Tale of Two Closely Related Skills: Word Reading and Spelling Development and Instruction, Young-Suk Kim 3. The Role of Vocabulary in and for Writing, Margaret G. McKeown 4. From Talk to Text: Implementing Student Discussions That Matter, Deanna Kuhn, Mariel Halpern, & Sybille Bruun 5. Writing to Promote Better Reading Comprehension, Steve Graham & Adiba Nusrat 6. Genre and Text Structure in Writing and Reading Instruction, Zoi A. Philippakos 7. Assessment in Writing and Reading, Paul Deane 8. Self-Regulated Strategy Development: Reading Source Materials to Learn and Write, Karen R. Harris & Linda H. Mason 9. Writing and Reading Connections in the Digital World, Allison N. Sonia, Laura K. Allen, & Scott A. Crossley III. Writing and Reading Connections in the Content Areas 10. Integrating Writing and Reading Instruction in the English Language Arts Classroom, Carol Booth Olson, Jenell Krishnan, & Huy Q. Chung 11. Writing, Reading, and Social Studies, Nell K. Duke, Anne-Lise Halvorsen, & Abby Reisman 12. Liberation through Literacy in Science, Catherine Lammert & Brian Hand 13. Thinking Beyond Symbols: Writing and Reading in Mathematics, Sarah R. Powell & Michael A. Hebert IV. Writing and Reading Connections with Specific Groups of Learners 14. Writing and Reading with Emergent Bilingual Learners, Alison G. Boardman & Sandra A. Butvilofsky 15. Addressing the Needs of Students Who Struggle with Literacy, Michael A. Hebert, Pamela Bazis, & Tanya Santangelo 16. Integrated Writing and Reading Instruction in College, Charles A. MacArthur Index