Evidence‐Based Practices to Enliven Integrated Reading‐to‐Writing Instruction

Despite strong support for integrating reading and writing instruction, writing practice is often crowded out of the schedule in elementary classrooms. To promote increased emphasis on writing, a working group of literacy researchers highlights three writing goals and six research‐based reading‐to‐writing practices to enliven instruction with more integrated opportunities. The three featured goals are maximize reading–writing connections, increase student collaborative writing, and promote a classroom writing community. To achieve these goals, the authors highlight flexible, evidenced‐based writing activities to encourage genre diversity, goal‐setting, peer feedback, and cross‐curricular reading tasks. The collection of recommended practices has the potential to engage students and improve both reading and writing achievement.