Writing

Reading and writing skills are inextricably connected—and so is reading and writing instruction. Covering topics from developing foundational skills to lifting up student voices, you can find the resources you need here to create a classroom that fosters student writers’ creativity and critical thinking.

Additional Resources for Writing Instruction

• Creating a Classroom Vision for Teaching Writing
  Steve Graham
  ARTICLE | The Reading Teacher (paid access)
• Writing in Early Education Settings
  Hope K. Gerde and Gary E. Bingham
  INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE (member resource)
• Teaching Writing to Improve Reading Skills
  RESEARCH ADVISORY
• Writing Instruction That Grows Writers Through a Focus on Feedback and Process
  Sarah M. Zerwin
  WEBINAR
• Real-World Writing
  Maria Grant
  INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE (member resource)
• Culturally Sustaining and Translingual Approaches to Teaching Bi/Multilingual Writers
  Tracey T. Flores, Rosalyn V. Harvey-Torres, Clint LaFuente, and Judith Landeros
  ARTICLE | The Reading Teacher (paid access)
• Paper Selfies: Centering Students' Identities in Baseline Writing
  Katie Sciurba, Kate Uphus, and Sonia Escobar
  ARTICLE | The Reading Teacher (open access)
• Using Dungeons & Dragons to Scaffold Writing Instruction
  Earl Aguilera, Maryanne Cullinan, Kade C. Wells, and Rebecca West
  WEBINAR
• Advancing Writing Instruction, Ages 9–12
  Fien De Smedt, Karen Harris, Teresa Limpo, Tanya Santangelo, and Kay Wijekumar
  ILA INTENSIVE
• Biography Writing Encourages Bilingual Adolescent’s Heritage Language Learning and Passing Down of Family Stories
  Shuling Yang
  ARTICLE | Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (paid access)
• Taking the Leap: Supporting Multilingual Writers Through Translanguaging
  Grace Cornell Gonzales and Emily Machado
  ARTICLE | The Reading Teacher (paid access)
• How Do I Write…? Scaffolding Preschoolers' Early Writing Skills
  Sonia Q. Cabell, Laura S. Tortorelli, and Hope K. Gerde
  ARTICLE | The Reading Teacher (paid access)
• Responding to Writers, Responding to the World: Instruction That Centers, Celebrates, and Empowers Students
  Melanie Meehan and Kelsey Sorum
  WEBINAR