Annotated Bibliography  

 

Applebee, S. N., & Langer. J. A. (1983). Instructional Scaffolding: Reading and Writing as Natural Language Activities. Language 
    Arts, 60 (2), 168-177

When teaching reading and writing, the focus would be on specific skills or component skills necessary for language development.  Rather than focus on specific skills of reading and writing, the language task is to be completed by the student with instructional support or scaffolding provided to ensure successfully completion of the learning task.  The scaffolding provided allows the student to carry out the instructional task while learning new strategies that will lead to him/her accomplishing the task without assistance.  Instructional activities would not focus on isolated aspects of the reading and writing skills but on purposeful tasks that would promote language development and thinking skills.  Effective activities will need to meet the five criteria:  (1) Intentionality: the intended task to be accomplished is a clear and an overall purpose is stated. (2) Appropriateness: Instructional tasks need to be appropriate such that the student can succeed with some additional support. (3) Structure: Modeling and questioning are used that lead to thinking skills and language development. (4) Collaboration: the teacher's role is to give support and constructive responses to students' work to encourage students' efforts. (5) Internalization: Scaffolding is gradually withdrawn as students internalize strategies. 

Aulls, M.W. (1985). Understanding the Relationship Between Reading and Writing. Educational Horizons, 64 (10), 39-44.

Reading and writing experiences are necessary before the learner acquires the text structures needed to become proficient in reading comprehension and writing.  Before the learner reads/writes, strategies of planning or purpose setting are initiated.  During reading/writing, meaning construction strategies of sentence reading/ drafting are used.  After reading/writing, rereading/ revision is employed.  Readers must learn reading strategies to make sense of what is read and writers must learn writing strategies so that others can make sense of what is written.

 

Baker, C. (1984) Writing for Reading: Listening to the Flip Side.  Paper presented at the1983 Thirteenth Annual Reading                 
    Conference. Terre Haute, ID.  (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 241 903.)

Teachers of reading must be also teachers of writing.  As a teacher of reading, writing provides the analysis and diagnosis of reading ability.  When a student has reading difficulties, writing is a significant indicator the reading disability.  Some reading problems such as a learning disability, dialect problem, grammar and syntax difficulties, reading vocabulary, and reading comprehension are identified through writing activities.  In other words, a student's writing process reveals his/her strengths and weaknesses in the area of reading.  Specific writing assignments such as summaries, inductive and deductive writing, critical thinking writing assignments, character sketches, author's style and purpose writings will enhance a student's reading ability. Teachers should be encouraged to integrate reading and writing assignments in all content areas of the curriculum.

 

Barrs, Myra (2000). The Reader in the Writer. Reading (United Kingdom Reading Association), July, 54-60.
[Abstract]

 

Beach, R.(1998). Writing about Literature: A Dialogic Approach. In Nelson, N. & R.Calfee (Eds.). The Reading and Writing Connection
    (pp.229-248). The Ninety-Seventh Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education (Part II).Chicago, IL: The
National Society for
    the Study of Education.

In a dialogic reading and writing approach, students use writing to develop questions about texts that focus on conflicts, tensions, perspectives, voices, and contradictions, which evolve from their literary experiences.  Not only do readers work within contexts but they also bring contexts to their reading.  Students need to learn how to cite information from the text as well as how to relate their own experiences to texts. They write various responses that can mimic, extend, recreate or parody the text.

 

Boutwell, M. (1983) Reading and Writing Process: A Reciprocal Agreement. Language Arts, 60 (6), 723-730.

Teachers should provide opportunities for students to understand the reading /writing connection or reciprocal agreement between the student becoming the reader and the writer. The writer-as-reader strategy is an important process in writing.  The student would switch back and forth from writer to reader and reader to writer.  As the writer, the student would construct meaning in the written prose and as the reader; the student would re-read to be sure that the text made sense. If not, the student would revise.  The reader-as-writer strategy would be applied to reading text; the student would need to construct meaning from the author's intended meaning. If incorrect, the student would have to revise his/her reading by rethinking and clarifying the meaning of the text for him/her as a reader.  Students need to be aware of the strategies that apply to both reading and writing. 

 

Brooks, G. (1988). Exploring the World Through Reading and Writing. Language Arts,65 (3), 245-253.

Reading and writing are similar but they are different learning experiences. When a student reads, he/she makes predictions, constructs meaning, and struggles to understand the text.  When a student writes, he/she develops a new text using prior knowledge, imagination and other resources. Teachers need to engage students in reading and writing activities simultaneously and integrate them into instruction in order for learning to occur.  Writing needs to be genuine in which students are thinking and rethinking as they write. Literature should provide experiences that can be explored through reading and writing. 

 

Calfee, R. (1998). Leading Middle Grade Students from Reading to Writing: Conceptual and Practical Aspects.  In Nelson, N. & R. Calfee
    (Eds.). The Reading and Writing Connection (pp.203-228). The Ninety-Seventh Yearbook of the National Society for the
Study of Education         (Part II). Chicago, IL: the National Society for the Study of Education.

Instructional time in the primary grades is focused on reading and less time on writing and in the high school grades, students are expected to read and produce written assignments that include critical analysis, and grammatical and compositional skills. How is the reading-writing connection taught in the middle grades to prepare students for high school? The separation of reading and writing in the middle grades is apparent in the content in which they study.  A Conceptual Framework is a social-cognitive analysis of literacy instruction and acquisition as a foundation for the reading-writing connection. The CORE framework includes 1) Connection: connect the student's prior knowledge and experiences; (2) Organization: information is organized into patterns and is structured for learning; (3) Reflection: information is discussed and reflected upon then applied to new situations; (4) Extension: information is refined and transferred to other complex tasks.  The CORE framework is used to transfer from reading to writing that is to focus on the role of the text and the process of writing.

 

Cobine, Gary. (1995). Writing as a Response to Reading. ERIC Digest. Washington, DC: National Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 386 734.)

The relationship between reading and writing needs to exist together not as separate ideas, but exist in relation to each other.  They need to be taught together to accommodate all reading styles, i.e. to aid in organizing, clarifying, and refining thoughts and ideas.  Implementing writing while reading through reading logs would allow the reader to respond to the text and/or to discover ideas in a “response journal”, to rethink ideas in a “text-to-meaning journal”, and regulate reading through self-monitoring writing in a “process journal”. 

 

Cohn, M. (1984). Observations of Learning to Read and Write Naturally.  In J. M. Jensen (Ed.). Composing and Comprehending (pp. 143-150).
    Urbana, IL: National Council of  Teachers of English.

Reading and writing can develop in the same natural way as spoken language.  Learning to read naturally begins when parents read to their young children.  They make the connection that reading can be as meaningful as oral language and to communicate ideas to others their own language needs to “talk” which becomes written language.  The progression of the reading and writing stages need to be nurtured accepted and understood by parents and teachers.

 

Crowhurst, M. (1991). Interrelationship Between Reading and Writing Persuasive Discourse. Research in the Teaching of English, 25 (3),
    314-335.
[Abstract]

 

Dionisio, M. (1983). “Write? Isn't this Reading Class?” The Reading Teacher, 36 (8),746-750.

When reading is approached through writing both skills benefit. Students should be writing on a regular basis and choosing topic of their own interest.  This will encourage reading for information about the topics such that more knowledge is gained and incorporated into their writing.  Also, when reading to expand writing, aids in reading comprehension.  Students remember information more readily when they directly used that information in their writing.  Reading to edit is important part in the writing process.  Students need time to read their writing for correct usage of language conventions and conveying the author's intended meaning.  Students in this class were using reading and writing as a “unified tool” for learning.

 

Eckhoff, B. (1983). How Reading Affects Children's Writing. Language Arts, 60 (5), 607-616.
[Abstract]

Goodman, K., &  Goodman, Y. (1983). Reading and Writing Relationships: Pragmatic Functions. Language Arts, 60 (5), 590-599.

The development of reading and writing is in relation to their specific functions and use.  Readers construct meaning through forms, conventions, and styles of the written text, as they become more proficient readers.  Writers must read and reread while writing to ensure that the text is comprehensible for the intended audience.  The students' schema for predicting texts in reading is essentially the same as those used in constructing texts during writing.  Literacy development needs to explicitly present the relationship between reading and writing.  Students need to view themselves as readers and writers to build knowledge about the forms and functions of the language.  Teachers need to understand that students have already been exposed to a literate environment such that the curriculum should be developed which expands on the students' knowledge and experiences.  Teachers need to provide a literacy environment where the students know that they are being involved in reading and writing.

 

Haneline, D., & Aiex, N. (1997). Asking the Right Questions: Reading Assignments That  Work for Writing. ERIC Digest. Washington, DC: National Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 409 534.)

Reading is not only decoding, it involves students taking information and taking ownership of it. Reading logs is one teaching strategy that helps students improve their reading and writing skills.  Reading logs can encourage a reader to discover and/or rethink ideas and respond in writing to literature.  When writing is initiated while reading, student's thoughts can become more organized, clarified, and refined. Through reading and writing activities, students will learn more about their own reading and writing abilities, which can lead to more possibilities in their own working and personal lives.

 

Heller, M. (1991). Reading-Writing Connections From Theory to Practice. White Plains, NY: Longman.

The studies of the influence of reading on writing support the theory that development in one area will carry over into the other.  The knowledge and understanding of text structure, genre, and basic forms of discourse such as narrative, description, persuasion and poetry are important to the interactive models of reading and writing.  Both reading and writing involve the similar cognitive processes during the activities of comprehension and composing.  Before reading the text, a reader prepares by comprehending by developing a purpose and activating prior knowledge for reading.  Before writing, the writer prepares to write by developing a purpose and using prior knowledge about the topic.  Thus, prereading and prewriting are essential to the process of reading and writing.  While reading /writing, the reader/writer is involved in both intellectually and emotionally reconstructing/constructing meaning of the text.  The social aspects of reading and writing express the ideas and thoughts that one is communicating through language. The classroom learning environment that incorporates the integration of reading and writing is crucial to literacy.  In the classroom, teachers need to make efficient use of the instructional time connecting reading and writing.  Students need time to read and write connected text and instruction should involve authentic reading and writing activities.

 

Holt, S. L. & Vacca, J. L. (1984). Reading with a Sense of Writer: Writing with a Sense of Reader. In J. M. Jensen (Ed.). Composing and
    Comprehending (pp. 177-181).
Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Reading and writing are interdependent processes that are essential to each other and mutually beneficial for one another.  The relationship between reading and writing is based on communication.  If reading and writing are to be communicative then the reader needs to reading with the sense of a writer and the writer needs to write with the sense of the reader.   A reader needs to construct meaning from the text and make sense of what the writer is communicating the same as the writer needs to develop meaning through the text and make sure that his/her message is clear and understood by the reader.  The reading and writing process involves thinking, action, and interaction.  Children need to develop their communication skills by having the opportunity to read and write in the classroom.  Students should make the connection that other students will be reading their writing and they will be reading other student's writing.  Thus, students read better with the sense of the writer and write better with the sense of the reader.

 

Kurcer, S.L. (1985). The Making of Meaning: Reading and Writing as Parallel Processes. Written Communication,2 (3), 317-336.

Both reading and writing are processes of making meaning.  The Text World Production model integrates the reading and writing processes by describing (1) the procedures utilized by readers/writers in accessing prior knowledge or schemata; (2) the cognitive strategies a reader/writer is engaged in when transforming prior knowledge into a text world, and (3) the function of context in the process of locating and retrieving information.  Teachers need to parallel the language used in reading instruction with the language used in writing instruction.  Both reading and writing activities would enhance the language of the other and support literacy development.  The literacy curricula would maximize the interrelationship between reading and writing and facilitate students' growth in the basics of literacy.  

 

Lee, I. A (2000). Touch of …Class! Exploring Reading-Writing Connections Through Pedagogical Focus on ‘Coherence'. Canadian Modern
    Language Review,57 (2), 352-357.

Reading and writing are found to have a connection.  The pedagogical view of coherence is thought to enhance comprehension and teach writing strategies.  This paper presents six teaching elements: (1) Purpose, audience, and context of situation, (2) Macrostructure, i.e. structure of the text, (3) Information distributed, i.e. the distribution of information in a text, (4) Propositional development, i.e. the development of ideas, (5) Cohesion, i.e. the use of cohesion in text, and (6) Metadiscourse, i.e. linguistic devices in texts. Reading and writing need to be presented as integrated skills. The pedagogy of coherence presents the relationship between reading and writing in which reading is the necessary contributor to the students' writing skills.

 

Mathison, M. (1998). Students as Critics of Disciplinary Texts. In Nelson, N. & R. Calfee (Eds.). The Reading and Writing Connection
    (pp.249-265). The Ninety-Seventh
Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education (Part II). Chicago, IL: The National Society
    for the Study of Education.

Students in the role of a critic produce a form of writing that is based on reading.  Students' written critiques are different in various disciplines such as humanities, natural sciences, and social studies.  When a student critiques a text, he/she first needs to present an understanding of the text through summarization.  Second, a student needs to evaluate the source text.  Third, a student needs to justify their analysis with evidence.  Lastly, a student needs to connect the validity of the text's knowledge to the sociological community.  Teachers need to teach critiquing, so that students have opportunities to identify the author's major points, analyze assumptions, examine the evidence the author provides, engage in the issues the author presents, persuade others to support or reject the author's point of view, examine other's opinions, and develop their own insights.  Students need to understand that reading and writing critically about texts enhances their literacy development.

 

Mayo, L. (2000). Making the Connection: Reading and Writing Together. English Journal, 89 (4), 74-77.

The reading and writing connection needs to be made explicit.  Teachers need to provide students with the opportunities to respond to literature as a reader as well as examine the writer's style to see what evoked the reader's response.  Being able to read on a critical level is vital to reading and writing.  Students need to analyze the text and use the author's style into their own writing.  Using shorter texts or a text that a student can visualize him/her writing and being able to study and talk about the writing is the key to success in bringing reading and writing together in the classroom.  Teachers need to encourage students to experience reading like writers so that they can internalize the quality and structure of good writing. Thus, students will be able to write better and read with an understanding of the author's intent.


McGee, L. M. & Richgels, D. J. (1990). Learning from Text Using Reading and Writing. In T. Shanahan. (Ed.). Reading and Writing Together:
    New Perspectives for the Classroom. (pp. 145-168). Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon Publishers.

The five characteristics of reading-writing learning strategies are: (1) learning consists of critical thinking, analysis, reasoning and understanding, (2) using revision to evaluate meaning, (3) fostering student's prior knowledge, (4) personal involvement, and (5) promoting students' responses through feelings.  Reading and writing strategies that illustrate the characteristics of critical understanding and revision are Dialogical Reading and Writing, Letter to the Editor, Extended Writing about Literature and Extended Writing about Content.  The strategies of Guided Writing Procedure and KWL are examples of the characteristic of promoting students' use of prior knowledge.  The strategies of Self-selected Trade Books, Identifying with the Character, and Extended Writing from Different Perspectives are examples of the characteristic of students' personally involved with reading and writing.  The strategy of Response to Content is an example of the characteristic of students' responding using their feelings.  Teachers have an important role in giving students' opportunities to learn through reading and writing strategies

 

McGinley, W. (1992).  The Role of Reading and Writing while Composing from Sources. Reading Research Quarterly, 27(3), 226-247.
[Abstract]

 

Miller, B. L. (1982). Reading and Writing: Is There a Connection? (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 227 477.)

Since reading and writing are language processes, they should be learned together.  Many of the skills acquired in learning to read can be applied when learning to write.  The integration of reading and writing should be in a natural way that is to construct meaning in everyday situations.  Children need to be exposed to the integrative relationship between reading and writing.  Together teachers and children should learn new information through reading and writing activities.  Children need to find out their interests through reading and writing.  Spelling, punctuation, and grammar are learned through reading and need to be reflected in writing.  Ideas for compositions are developed through reading, dialogue, and interaction with others.  Students need to be given opportunities to read and practice composing to develop specific aspects of reading and writing.  Students must be active participants in reading and writing processes.  Children learn to read by reading and write by writing.

 

Mills, Editha. (1974). Children's Literature and Teaching Written Composition. Elementary English, 51,971-973.

A longitudinal study was conducted during 1968-1972 using the children's literature for teaching composition to third graders in an elementary school in Georgia.  Written Composition K-3, A guide for Teaching curriculum was utilized for the teaching goals and objectives. Lessons were developed and taught to improve composition skills and time was devoted to listening before writing. Each week a half-hour lesson for twenty-four weeks was taught by using literature to teach composition. Emphasis was placed upon the enjoyment of reading and what the literature could do as a model to help improve writing skills. Students were tested using the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. Students scored significantly higher in the Iowa Test of Basic Skills subtests of vocabulary, reading, usage, and composite. Teachers commented that students' attitude toward writing was positive and the production and quality of the writing was improved.  The principal commented that the third grade students were far superior in skills of composition using the Written Composition curriculum compared to the fifth grade class using the traditional approach.

 

Moffett, J. (1983). Reading and Writing as Meditation. Language Arts, 60 (3), 315-322.

Our stream of consciousness is something that reading and writing share.  When reading, the text structures are the stream of consciousness for the reader.  It engages emotions, memory, and imagination through the mind that elicits a response.  When writing, the writer is modifying his/her own inner speech, thoughts, memories, and ideas.  It is not merely writing everything down, it is composing connections of the writer's thoughts for an intended audience and purpose.  Reading and writing control inner speech by allowing a text to structure it or by structuring it to create a text.  Everything in a text is meditated by the reader's conscious intelligence.  Meditation on reading and writing can lead to witnessing the inner stream, that is the concentration for the process of reading/ writing without altering it; or it can focusing the inner stream, that is become conscious of it through emotion, perception, memory, and reason; or it can suspending it, that is to stop the flow of consciousness so that it becomes altered.  Meditation works together with the text; it may follow reading or it may generate writing.

 

Morris, D. (1984). Concept of Word: A Developmental Phenomenon in the Beginning Reading and Writing Processes.  In J. M. Jensen (Ed.).
    Composing and Comprehending
(pp. 115-124). Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

The concept of the word needs to be presented in reading and writing.  In reading, the reader develops the concept of the word through choral reading of shared-book experiences.  The students need to be exposed to finger-point reading and word identification. In writing, the writer gains awareness of learning how spoken language is put into written words through the act of dictated experience stories.  The beginning reading/writing relationship is mutually facilitative. In other words, growth in one area (reading) is reflected in and reinforced in the other (writing).  Students need to have an opportunity to practice reading and writing activities to experience and understand the reading and writing connection.

 

Nathan, R. & Temple, C.  (1990). Classroom Environments for Reading and Writing Together.  In T. Shanahan. (Ed.). Reading and Writing
    Together: New Perspectives for
the Classroom. (pp. 173-200). Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon Publishers.

The emphasis in the classroom is to implement a curriculum that connects reading with writing.  Teachers need to teach children to read and write, not only to teach them the skills and process, but the engage them in a community filled with readers and writers.  To establish this kind of environment, teachers need to (1) model reading and writing, (2) classroom routines need to involve daily reading and writing activities, and (3) classrooms need to be rich in ideas, books, and connected to the world.  Also, connections need to be made across the disciplines that encourage reading and writing opportunities.

 

Nelson, N.(1998). Reading and Writing Contextualized. In Nelson, N. & R. Calfee (Eds.). The Reading and Writing  Connection (pp.266-285).
    The Ninety-Seventh Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education (Part II). Chicago, IL: The
National Society for the Study of
    Education.

The constructive processes that develop meaning are apparent through the reading and writing connection. The processes of reading and writing appear concurrently in a literate person. All literate persons are readers and writers, constructing meaning for the text in which they read and meaning for the text in which they write.  The identity of being a reader/writer is the social relationship with other literate persons.

 

Nelson, N. & Calfee, R. (1998).  The Reading-Writing Connection Viewed Historically. In Nelson, N. & R. Calfee (Eds.). The Reading and
    Writing Connection (pp.1-52). The
Ninety-Seventh Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education (Part II). Chicago, IL: The
    National  Society for the Study of Education.

Historically reading and writing were separate in education.  They were taught as separate subjects in the school system in the United States.  This chapter presents a history of literacy in American education from colonial times to the twentieth century.  It focuses on the different levels of education, that is elementary, secondary and college.  During the 1970-1998 there were five influential movements that had supported the reading-writing connection. (1) Comprehension and Composition as construction: reading and writing develop concurrently, (2) Reader Response: readers respond to text in writing, (3) The writing Process and process writing: through the writing process the student moved to and from the role of the reader and writer, (4) Whole Language: all modalities of language are used in a holistic, natural situation, and (5) Discourse Communities: the role of author and audience are adopted by members in a community.

 

Rabideau, Dan. (1993). Integrating Reading and Writing into Adult ESL Instruction. ERIC Digest. Washington, D.C.: National Clearinghouse on
    Literacy Education.  (ERIC
Document Reproduction Service No. ED 358 749.)

Reading and writing play a major role in the language instruction for adult ESL learners.  Today, the emphasis is on the implementation of reading and writing in ESL instruction in addition to the learning of oral English.  The teaching of reading and writing in an ESL program needs to be influenced by learners' various language proficiencies, backgrounds, and needs.  The goal of instruction is to draw on the native language of the learner and implement a reading and writing curriculum that will meet the learners' needs. Thus, reading and writing activities need to be instructed in the ESL curriculum by using the learner's native language in order to learn how to speak, read, and write in English. 

Raphael, T.E., Kirschner, B. W., &  Englert, C. S. (1988). Expository Writing Program: Making Connections between Reading and Writing. The
    Reading Teacher,41(7) 790-
795.

The Expository Writing Program (EWP) is designed to help students learn about the writing process. In the first stage, students are introduced to the different structures and processes of writing using their own experiences. In the second stage, connections are made to reading as students learn to apply writing strategies when gathering information from expository text and write in the content areas.  Student sample writings are used to identify text structure in written text.  The teacher guides the students to gather critical information instead of copying the text word for word.  Students are encouraged to use prior knowledge and other text sources to elaborate on the information.  The EWP is effective because students learn the strategies used by authors of informational text, apply the strategies in their own writing, and through participation in the writing process learn to read critically and monitor the clarity of the text they are reading whether or not they themselves are the authors.

 

Rosenblatt, L. (1994). The Transactional Theory of Reading and Writing. In Ruddell, R. B., M. R. Ruddell, &  H. Singer. (Eds.).  Theoretical
  
models and processes of reading,
4thed. (pp. 1057-1092). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.

Reading is an integral part of the writing process. The reader/writer makes meaning of a new situation by applying, reorganizing, revising, or extending components from his/her existing schema. The reader and writer have a transaction with the text.  The meaning is not found in the text but occurs when the reader/writer transacts with the text.  During reading, the reader transacts with the text to construct meaning.  The reader's purpose or stance affects the meaning of the text.  The reader takes a stance while reading; it could be an efferent stance, that is the information learned from the text or an aesthetic stance, that is the emotions that arise while reading.  During writing, the writer is transacting with his/her personal, social, and cultural environment.  The writer's stance is either an efferent stance, that is writing presenting information or an aesthetic stance, that is writing that conveys emotions.  The writer will transact with the text by rereading it as though he/she is reading it through the eyes of his/her intended audience for its lucidity, content, syntax and purpose.  The interconnectedness of reading and writing is closer than the fact that each can serve as a support to the other.  The writer discovers the need to read in order to enhance knowledge and experience, and the reader is influenced to write to record, express, and clarify ideas and thoughts that flow from reading.  The teaching of reading and writing should be the development of an environment and activities in which students are motivated and encouraged to draw on their own resources to make real meaning.  Readers and writers need to understand their transactional relationship to each other by peer reading and discussion of text.  The teacher needs to become the facilitator of the interconnection of reading and writing among students.

 

Shafer, G. (2000). Reading and Writing in the Developmental English Class. English Journal, 89 (4), 33-39. 

The reading-writing connection is an active, personal process.  Both reading and writing are necessary for social reasons.  The teacher's goal is to bring authentic participation and engagement to both reading and writing in the form of letters.  Students in the Developmental English class had the opportunity to write as an imaginary character, “Taloola” and throughout the year their stories would be developed through letter writing.  They composed original writing and read it aloud to have it critiqued by their peers. Through letter reading, editing of incorrect usage of language conventions was done.  Students became readers and writers when reading was allowed to develop along with writing.

 

Shanahan, T.(1984). Nature of the Reading-Writing Relation: An Exploratory Multivariate Analysis. Journal of Educational Psychology, 76 (3),
    466-477.

The purpose of this study was to conduct an exploratory analysis of the relationship of learning to read and write.  The reading-writing relationship is compared between grade levels (second and fifth) and achievement levels (beginning readers and advanced readers).  Multiple reading and writing measures were administered over a five-week period.  The results found that reading and writing were significantly related at both the second and fifth grade levels.  However, there were significant differences in the findings across the reading level groups that suggest that the reading-writing relationship changes with reading development.

 

Shanahan, T. (1988). The Reading-writing Relationship: Seven Instructional Principles. The Reading Teacher, 41 (7), 636-647.

Seven instructional principles are presented that explain how reading and writing can be integrated through instruction. Principle 1: Teach both reading and writing.  Teachers should provide daily integration of reading and writing instruction so that students will have the opportunity to read literature and write in response to their reading. Principle 2: Introduce reading and writing from the earliest grades. Teachers should encourage reading and writing in kindergarten and first grade by providing opportunities for students to read and write for genuine purposes. Principle 3: Instruction should reflect the developmental nature of reading-writing relationship. Teachers need to understand that reading and writing are developmental processes and should reflect the nature and content of what should be learned by the students at any given time.  Principle 4: Make the reading-writing connection explicit. Teachers need to provide opportunities for students to learn that reading and writing are related and how specific skills and knowledge in one process can be used in the other.  Teachers should allow students to share and discuss their writing with peers, publish their own books, and examine/appreciate the author's craft. Principle 5: Instruction should emphasize content and process relations.  Teachers need to understand the difference between the product knowledge (English conventions) and process knowledge (thinking strategies).  Teachers need to provide students with writing opportunities that gain insight about the reading process.  For example, as students revise writing, they will learn how to communicate more effectively.  Principle 6: Emphasize communication.  Teachers need to provide instruction where reading and writing are communication processes so that the connection of reading and writing becomes a reading-writing relationship.  Effective readers need to know the author's purposes as well as effective writers need to know their audience.  Teachers need to provide real communication between the reader/writer, such as pen pals, letter writing, dialogue journals.  Principle 7: Teach reading and writing in meaningful contexts. Teachers need to provide students with rich literacy experiences so that they can read and write in various situations for a variety of reasons.

 

Shanahan, T.(1997). Reading-Writing Relationships, Thematic units, Inquiry Learning…in pursuit of effective integrated literacy instruction. The
    Reading Teacher,51 (1), 12-20.

Literacy instruction needs to integrate reading and writing within thematic units.   Teachers need to understand the connection of reading and writing in order for it to be implemented in the curriculum. Since reading and writing depend on the same cognitive learning processes, then cross-learning opportunities in reading and writing need to be available.  By adding reading and writing to the curriculum doesn't guarantee improvement in learning; however, reading and writing need to be combined successfully to be effective in learning literacy.  It is essential when planning for integrated instruction to have the following: 1) knowledge of the intention of instruction, so that desired outcomes will be accomplished, 2) focus on the separate disciplines to produce “maximum cross-curricular benefits”; and 3) the combination of social and cultural aspects in the curriculum, that is readers and writers need to be aware of how writers think, speak, and write.  Also, integrated instruction will foster better attitudes towards learning.  Integrated instruction is successful when it encourages students to make connections between reading and writing within thematic units and when students are given instruction, guidance, and practice through the context of meaning.

 

Shanahan, T., & Lomax, R.G. (1986). An Analysis and Comparison of Theoretical Models of the Reading-Writing Relationship. Journal of Educational Psychology, 78 (2), 116-123.
[Abstract]

 

Shanahan, T., & Lomax, R.G. (1988). A Developmental Comparison of Three Theoretical Models of the Reading-Writing Relationship. Research
    in the Teaching of
English, 22 (2), 196-212.
[Abstract]

 

Smagorinsky, P., & O'Donnell-Allen, C. (1998). Reading as mediated and mediating action: Composing meaning for literature through multimedia
    interpretive texts.
Reading Research Quarterly, 33 (2), 198-226.
[Abstract]

 

Smith, C. B., & Dahl, K. L. (1984).  Teaching Reading and Writing Together: The Classroom Connection. NY: Teachers College Press.

This book presents classroom strategies and specific activities that connect reading and writing in a natural way.  The first chapter provides information about the reading-writing connection.   The general statement that is commonly stated is that those who read well usually write well and those who write well usually read well.  To bring the reading and writing connection together, processes of thinking and constructing meaning need to be developed.  Readers need to write about what they are reading, so that they can appreciate the words and style of the author they are reading, by written reactions or summaries.  Through writing in response to reading, the reader can identify whether or not he/she is communicating with the author.  The curriculum needs to present students with reading and writing activities.  The common instructional steps in reading/writing instruction are (1) prereading/prewriting: to draw on prior knowledge and experiences; (2) reading/writing with intention: to establish purpose; (3) summarizing/revision; to summarize what has been read/ to revise written text to communicate with the intended audience.

 

Smith, F. (1983). Reading Like a Writer. Language Arts, 60 (5), 558-567.

In order for children to learn to write, they must read to gain the conventions of writing that could not be taught in formal instruction.  Students need to read a variety of genres in order to gain knowledge of the author's intent, which will influence what is being written.  He believes to learn how to write poetry, students need to read poems and discuss them in terms of structure and author's purpose, which can't be learned in a textbook.  Thus, students must learn to read like a writer in order to write like a writer and be able to see themselves as readers and writers.  Teachers need to teach the students how to write through the use of literature and not teach them about writing.

 

Sperling, M. (1998) Teachers as Readers of Students' Writing. In Nelson, N. & R. Calfee (Eds.). The Reading and Writing  Connection
    (pp.131-152). The Ninety-Seventh
Yearbook of  the National Society for the Study of Education (Part II). Chicago, IL: The National Society
    for the Study of Education.

Teachers respond to student's writing by assuming different roles, reading for different purposes, and responding in various voices.  The teacher responds/comments to student's writing verbally in one-to-one conversations and on student's papers.  The dialogic model of instruction includes: (1) the teacher assigning a written composition; (2) students think, read, talk, and write; (3) the teacher and peers read, think, talk, and respond; and (4) students rereads, thinks, talks, and rewrites.  In this way, the students understand the interconnected relationship between reading and writing.

 

Spivey, N. N., & King, J.R. (1989). Readers as Writers Composing from Sources. Reading Research Quarterly,24 (1), 7-26.
[Abstract]

Squire, J. R. (1983). Composing and Comprehending: Two Sides of the Same Basic Process. Language Arts, 60 (5), 581-589.

Composing and comprehending are process-oriented thinking skills, which are interrelated.  When composing and comprehending are not taught as processes, it obstructs the teaching of reading, writing, and thinking to students. An effective literacy curriculum that ensures composing and comprehending skills needs to have the following: (1) Basic to all reading and writing is skill in process language. Composing and comprehending are critical to thought processes because it engages the learner in meaning constructing/reconstructing, developing/reconstructing ideas, and expressing ideas as a reader/writer. (2) Classroom strategies for regenerating ideas are essential to teaching comprehending.  Strategies of summarizing, retelling, rephrasing, reprocessing, elaborating, and translating are essential when students comprehend literature. (3) Because language learning and language processing involve cognitive processes basic to every discipline, application to the discipline is critical if children are to learn to think in the discipline.  Direct attention to reading and writing skills in a specific discipline is needed in order for the students' to understand the language of that discipline. (4) Children and young people require instructional experience in all important modes of rhetoric if they are to comprehend and compose using these varied forms and functions.  Students need to have various modes and functions of language with reading and writing experiences in each area. (5) Instruction in comprehending and composing must concentrate on coping with the total process of constructing and reconstructing ideas.  Students need to understand the skills in comprehending and composing in order to understand the total reading/writing relationship.  Teaching the specific skills of reading and writing are critical, however, these skills need to be taught together to complete the process of comprehending and composing.  (6) A critical factor in shaping the quality of both composing and comprehending is the prior knowledge the pupil brings to reading and writing.  Prior knowledge affects the quality of comprehending.  In other words, the knowledge that a student brings to the text aids in the construction of meaning from the text, which will effect how the student will respond to the text.  Prior knowledge also is vital to composing because students' writing is reflective of what they know.

 

Stosky, S. (1983). Research on Reading/Writing Relationships: A Synthesis and Suggested Directions. Language Arts, 60 (5), 627-643.

Correlational and Experimental Research studies on the reading/writing relationship are summarized in this paper. Correlational studies were divided into three categories:  (1) Correlating measures of reading achievement with measures of writing ability.  Researchers found a high correlation between reading scores and rating of writing quality in the upper grades, thus the relationship between reading and writing improved as the students reached the upper grades.  (2) Correlating measures of reading achievement with measures of writing ability.  Researchers found a significant relationship between reading /comprehension and writing quality. (3) Correlating measures of reading ability with measures of syntactic complexity in students' compositions. Significant correlations were found between the combination of syntactic measures to predict reading achievement (fluency) and the use of complex syntactic structures.

Experimental Research studies that examined the influence of reading upon writing:  No studies could be found to support this theory.  (2) Studies that attempted to improve writing through reading instruction, the use of literary models or additional reading experiences.  Three studies revealed that additional reading was effective in improving writing.  Students who read additional literature improved in grammar, usage, and wrote better compositions compared to those students who were taught formal grammar and usage.  Another study found that children who read and discussed literature as a pre-writing activity scored significantly higher on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in their writing compared to the group that didn't use literature in this fashion.  Another study found significant results in both reading and writing ability, which examined the effects on student's expository writing of highly structured English course, which correlated reading instruction with writing instruction.  In conclusion, the correlational studies presented consistent results of a significant correlation between reading and writing.  From the research studies, the reading experience seems to be consistent correlation of, or influence on writing ability.  Future research is needed on the relationship between reading and writing in order to guide curriculum development.

 

Taylor, B. M., & Beach, R. W. (1984). The Effects of Text Structure Instruction on Middle-grade Students' Comprehension and Production of
    Expository Text. Reading
Research Quarterly, 19 (2), 134-173.
[Abstract]

 

Teale, W. H. (1984). Toward a Theory of How Children Learn to Read and Write Naturally.   In J. M. Jensen (Ed.). Composing and
    Comprehending (pp. 127-142).Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Natural literacy development is dependent on the experiences the child has in reading and writing occurrences that are encouraged and implemented by literate adults.  Reading and writing activities are essential to the child's learning to read and write.  Reading and writing development is the interaction between the literate adult and the child through literacy-speech activities.  The literate adult should scaffold storybook reading, where the adult highlights specific aspects of the written language through questioning with the child, so that the child will become more capable of “reading” on her/his own.  Reading and writing opportunities and the speech that accompanies them are a significant aspect of becoming literate naturally.

 

Tierney, R. J. (1990). Learning to Connect Reading and Writing: Critical Thinking Through Transactions with One's Own Subjectivity. In T.
    Shanahan. (Ed.). Reading and Writing Together: New Perspectives for the Classroom. (pp. 131-143). Norwood, MA:
Christopher-Gordon
    Publishers.

In this chapter, Mr. Robert Tierney reviews his two decades of research on the theory of reading and writing.  He began his research on reading comprehension that is he explored the relationship between the text and how the reader reflected/responded upon the text.  This research prompted additional investigations into the relationship between the reader and the author.  Then the theory of the reader as a writer emerged.  More studies investigated the theory of the relationship between reading and writing, which lead to the research of the effects of reading, and writing upon thinking.  Mr. Tierney claims the theory of reading-writing connection does promote learning and teachers need to provide children with opportunities to learn information through reading-writing activities.

 

Tierney, R. J.(1992). Ongoing Research and New Directions. In J. Irwin & M. Doyle (Eds.). Reading/Writing Connections: Learning From
    Research. (pp.246-260). Newark.
DE: International Reading Association.

Historically, research work on reading/writing connection was scarce.  During the 1960s reading and writing instruction were taught separately.  In the 1970s and 1980s, researchers and educators were curious of the impact of the reading/writing connection.  A number of studies and articles were written and these studies appeared in a wide variety of journals and came from several different disciplines with education and psychology being the most prominent.  The research of the relationship of reading and writing revealed that when reading and writing occurred together in collaboration, then both thinking and learning were enhanced.  In other words, reading is connected to writing, reading and writing work in “synergy”, and the integration of reading and writing implements a process oriented approach and offers more in the way of collaborative activities.   

 

Tierney, R. J., Caplan,R., Ehri, L., Healy, M., & Hurlow, M. (1989). Writing and Reading Working Together. In  A. H. Dyson (Ed.).
    Collaboration through Writing and Reading:Exploring Possibilities. (pp. 169-209) IL: National Council of Teachers of
English.

To improve students' literacy development, reading-writing activities should be integrated in the curriculum.  When reading and writing are working together in the classroom, students' learning is developed.  Students' relationship with authors develops when reading and writing are interrelated.  Students' writing reflect the author's style in the books, which they have read or listened to. Students will synthesize ideas, and characters from the books and incorporate these ideas into their own writing.  The reading-writing relationship enhances the students understanding of genre and stylistics, such as dialogue, descriptive techniques, and transitions.  When reading and writing work together, the students' writing skills are enhanced as seen in improvements in vocabulary and English conventions.  Reading and writing together can be used to explore a topic in literature, construct meaning, appreciate the authors' style, and enhance attitude and motivation to learn.  Reading and writing in together gives the students' an opportunity to be engaged with the literature, to develop as an author, and to compare their own writing with the work of their peers.

 

Tierney, R. J., & LaZansky, J. (1980). The Rights and Responsibilities of Readers and Writers: A Contractual Agreement. Language Arts, 57 (6),
    606-613.

There is a contract that exists describing the role of the reader during comprehension and the writer during production.  The reader-writer agreement is effective when the writer produces a text that allows the reader to use prior knowledge to construct the intended meaning of the text.  Teachers need to provide opportunities for students to develop a sense of the reader-writer relationship where both authorship and readership are respected.  Readers should be allowed to interact with writers in order to understand the reading-writing connection, which will enhance the production and comprehension of the text.

 

Tierney, R. J., & Leys, M. (1984). What is the Value of Connecting Reading and Writing? Reading Education Report No. 55. Washington, DC:
    Center for the Study of
Reading. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 251 810.)

This paper presents the benefits of interrelating reading and writing.  The reading-writing connection is utilized as a device for information storage and retrieval, development of thought, communication, and self-indulgence.  Research has presented that reading influences writing which will affect the view of writing and enhance the appreciation of the author's craft.  Students use the format and ideas of the text being read and incorporate it into their writing, such as comparing and/or contrasting with a text's plot or character development in the literature.  Students will begin using their reading as a rich resource for considering possible topics, ideas and stylistic options.  Thus, research found that successful readers incorporate writing into their reading.

 

Tierney, R. J., & Pearson, P. D. (1984). Toward a Composing Model of Reading. In J. M. Jensen (Ed.). Composing and Comprehending (pp.
    33-45). Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Reading and writing are viewed as similar processes of constructing meaning and composing.  The composing process is parallel in reading and writing through essential components of planning, drafting, aligning, revising, and monitoring.  In planning, the reader/ writer plans his reading/writing by establishing purpose, evaluating prior knowledge about the topic, narrowing goals, and self-questioning.  In drafting, the reader/writer refines the meaning when reading/writing.  In aligning, the reader/writer takes a stance in collaboration with the author/audience.  In revision, the reader makes interpretations, reactions, and questions the text, while the writer re-examines, deletes and shapes the text to express his/her intended meaning.  In monitoring, the reader/writer decides whether he/she planed, drafted, aligned and revised properly.  The reader/writer monitors by reacting to what the writer has written or what the reader has read.  

 

Tierney, R. J., & Shanahan, T. (1991). Research on Reading-Writing Relationships: Interactions, Transactions, and Outcomes. In P. E.
    Pearson, M. Barr, & P. B.Mosenthal
(Eds.). Handbook of Reading Research Volume II (pp. 246-280).New York: Longman

Since the skills underlying reading and writing knowledge and process are similar, then the combination of reading and writing instruction is essential in literacy development.  Research supports the instruction of reading and writing relationship.  Teachers, who employ reading-writing connection, find that readers generate more ideas when they read and writers develop more ideas when they wrote.  Thus, the combination of reading and writing activities lead to more reasoning operations than if taught as separate subjects.

 

Tierney, R. J., Soter, A., O'Flahavan, J. F., & McGinley, W. (1989) The Effects of Reading and Writing Upon Thinking Critically. Reading
    Research Quarterly, 24 (2)
134-173.
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Tompkins,G. E. (1990). The Literature Connection: How One Teacher Puts Reading and Writing Together. In T. Shanahan. (Ed.). Reading and
    Writing Together: New Perspectives for the Classroom. (pp. 201-223). Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon
Publishers.

This chapter is the journal that covers twenty days of Ms. Chavez class in which she taught a fantasy literature unit.  She uses an integrated, literature based approach to teach reading and writing in the classroom.  She uses reading and writing activities of guided reading, shared reading, independent reading, listening centers, informal writing, process writing, projects, and language skills.  She implements real literacy activities and meaningful assignments rather than the traditional workbook activities.

 

Truax, P. (2000). Readers That Can't Write…Writers That Can't Read. Washington, DC: National Clearinghouse on Reading and
    Communication Skills. (ERIC Document
Reproduction Service No. ED 488 456.)

Knowledge of reading and writing are closely linked together and transferable to both. However, why are there readers that can't write and writers that can't read?  Looking at the review of literature for grades 2 –4, which reveals that reading and writing skills are mostly taught as separate subjects.  Research has shown that there is a positive correlation between reading and writing and this needs to be taught as an interactive process.  Both reading and writing processes are considered reflective, that is prior knowledge is activated before reading and aids in establishing purpose before writing.  The lack of integration between reading and writing in teaching techniques explains the reason why some readers can't write and some writers can't read.

Wilson, M. (1981). A Review of Recent Research on the Integration of Reading and Writing. The Reading Teacher, 34 (8), 896-901.

The research reveals that reading and writing should be taught together rather than teaching reading first.   One assumption is that writing is a result of reading; therefore, reading needs to be taught first before writing can occur.  Reading and writing should occur naturally when opportunities for reading and writing in natural context exist.  Students need to “learn” reading and writing and not be “taught” how to read and write.  Students need to know the function of each for language development.  Researchers state that growth in reading and writing is a sociopsycholinguistic process.  They believe children have been exposed to written language and reading through a literate society before beginning formal instruction.  Both processes should develop as a natural extension of the student's need to communicate.  Since reading and writing are developmentally interrelated, then activities that interrelate reading and writing need to be available in the classroom.  Because the emphasis of both reading and writing is meaning, the reading program should clearly complement the writing program. 

 

Wittrock, M. C. (1984). Writing and the Teaching of Reading.  In J. M. Jensen (Ed.). Composing and Comprehending (pp. 77-83). Urbana, IL:
    National Council of Teachers
of English.

There is a close relationship between reading and writing.  Reading is the construction of meaning through relationship of parts from the text and prior knowledge, while writing is relating our prior knowledge and experiences to the text by putting meaning on the written pages.  Generation is the process of constructing meaning, a representation, a model or explanation that agrees with the readers' prior knowledge and experiences.  There are two major parts to the generative process: (1) to generate relations among the parts of the text by constructed meaning, decoding, comprehension, and vocabulary and (2) by building relations between the text and the readers' knowledge or experience.  Writing is also a process of constructing meaning, which is a process of revision when the writer is making the meaning more precise.  The process of connecting reading and writing are used to relate text and knowledge to each other.

Wong-Kam, J., & Au, K. (1988). Improving a 4th Grader's Reading and Writing: Three Principles. The Reading Teacher, 41 (8), 768-772.

The purpose of this article is to present three principles of teaching reading and writing in the classroom.  The first principle is to have all the students in the classroom become involved in a literate community of reading and writing that is students would work together to develop meaning in what has been read or written. The teacher would use guided lessons to teach meaning and function.  The second principle is to integrate reading and writing through learning guides, that is a written response to a piece of literature.  The students were to respond in writing by making predictions, stating cause and effect connections, and defining meanings of words.  The third principle is to teach specific skill instruction for skill application so that struggling readers could become independent readers.  The three principles are considered important in providing students with beneficial reading and writing experiences.  By using these three principles, the students are reading and writing very differently and more independently.

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