The Reading / Writing Connection ─ Strategies for Teaching and Learning in the Secondary Classroom

The Third Edition features an array of new and updated individual reading/writing strategies, activities and mini-lessons, and it scaffolds these strategies in extended demonstration lessons that teachers can implement in their middle and secondary English classrooms.

Well-respected author Carol Booth Olson extends far beyond most books intended for teachers of language arts by integrating reading and writing in creative, theory-based ways. Already a classic in its field, this book intends to explore and reinforce the reading/writing connection and thus help teachers make visible to their students what it is that experienced readers and writers do when they make meaning from and with texts. Lauded by students and professors as a clear and straight-forward book, this new edition includes plenty of material about teaching the writing process and responding to literature, and provides new and improved lessons and activities that help students learn specific strategies.

New to this Edition:

• New demonstration lessons that highlight students showing cognitive strategy use

• More high school examples and references to high school texts throughout the book

• A focus on 21^st century literacies throughout the book with specific activities influenced by the Partnership for 21^st Century Skills Framework and the 21^st Century English Skills Map

• Differentiation activities in several demonstration lessons for different student populations

Carol Booth Olson is Director of the UCI/Site of the National Writing Project and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of California, Irvine. Olson has edited three books: Practical Ideas for Teaching Writing as Process, a best selling publication of the California Department of Education (1986; 1996); Thinking/Writing: Fostering Critical Thinking Through Writing (Harper Collins, 1992); and Reading, Thinking, and Writing About Multicultural Literature (Scott Foresman, 1996). Additionally, she serves as a Senior Consultant for Holt McDougal Publishers. Olson is especially interested in making the cognitive strategies that experienced readers and writers use when they make meaning from or with texts visible to less experienced readers and writers in order to improve their literacy. She has received the Alan C. Purves Award in 2007 and the Richard A. Meade Award in 2009 from the National Council of Teachers of English for education research deemed most likely to impact educational practices.