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

Carol Booth Olson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education-University of California, Irvine, and the Director of the UCI/California/Writing Project. She received her Ph.D. in American Literature at UCLA in 1977 where she was honored as Outstanding Graduate Women of the Year. She has edited three books, including the best selling California Department of Education publication "Practical Ideas for Teaching Writing as a Process" and has written over 30 articles on teaching composition and literature. She has also served as a Senior Consultant to the Scott Foresman Literature and Integrated Studies Textbook series (1997). Dr. Olson has received two Excellence in Teaching awards at UCLA.

Contents

Chapter 1         What is the Reading/Writing Connection?

Chapter 2         Introducing Students to the Cognitive Strategies in Their Mental Tool Kits

Chapter 3         Integrating Reading and Writing Instruction through Scaffolded Demonstration Lessons

Chapter 4         Connections Affect and Cognition

Chapter 5         A Multiple Intelligence Approach to Language Arts Instruction for Mainstream and English Language Development Classrooms

Chapter 6         Strategies for Interacting with a Text: Using Reading and Writing to Learn

Chapter 7         Teaching Literature: From Reading to Interpretation

Chapter 8         Reading, Thinking, and Writing about Multicultural Literature in Culturally Diverse Classrooms

Chapter 9         Teaching Writing: Helping Students Play the Whole Range

Chapter 10       Alternative Approaches to the Research Paper

Chapter 11       Sharing Our Responses to Texts as Readers and Writers and Revising Meaning

Chapter 12       Correctness Can Be Creative

Chapter 13       Assessing Students’ Reading and Writing in the Classroom

Chapter 14       Cultivating Motivated, Independent Readers and Writers through Reading and Writing Workshop

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