ALT AAC Tip of the Week: Don't Forget Writing Instruction!

ALT Why writing too? “Importantly, studies have shown that writing instruction can support reading development, and reading instruction can help develop writing skills, and teaching them together can improve both reading and writing skills (Graham &Hebert, 2010; Graham et al., 2018).”

ALT Why writing too? “According to the interactive and dynamic literacy model (Kim, 2020, 2022), reading and writing draw on essentially the same skills (see also the shared knowledge hypothesis, Fitzgerald & Shanahan, 2000) and have bidirectional relationships.”

ALT Why writing too? “In other words, evidence suggests that when reading instruction fails to capitalize on writing instruction and when writing instruction fails to capitalize on reading instruction, students are being deprived of valuable learning opportunities.” Young-Suk Grace Kim, Karen R. Harris, Rebecca Goldstone, April Camping & Steve Graham (2024) The Science of Teaching Reading is Incomplete without the Science of Writing: A Randomized Control Trial of Integrated Teaching of Reading and Writing, Scientific Studies of Reading, DOI: 10.1080/10888438.2024.2380272