Chapter 6: Championing the Reading-Writing Connection

Resources

• Rethinking Guided Reading to Advantage ALL Our Learners (blog post)

• Mistakes Teachers Make in Reading Instruction (article) 

• Connect Real-World Writing and Reading (video, Regie Routman in Residence: Reading-Writing Connections, Heinemann, 8 minutes)

• 10 Surefire Ideas to Remove Writing Roadblocks (article) 

• Responsive Teaching in Action: Applying the Optimal Learning Model with Valentina Gonzalez (video, 24 minutes) 

• Removing Roadblocks to Reading: 10 Surefire Routes (downloadable) 

• 12 Writing Essentials for All Grade Levels (downloadable) 

• Examining Beliefs About Reading (downloadable) 

• What to Look for in the Highly Effective Reading and Writing Classroom (downloadable) 

• Understanding the Optimal Learning Model (video: Regie Routman in Residence: Reading-Writing Connections, Heinemann, 11 minutes)

• Apply the Optimal Learning Model (excerpt) 

• Optimal Learning Model (visuals)

  • Figure: The Optimal Learning Model Across the Curriculum (2008)

  • Figure - An Ongoing Cycle of Responsive Teaching (2018)

  • Planning Instruction with the Optimal Learning Model (downloadable) 

• Do More Shared Writing (excerpt)

• Tried and True Ideas for Shared Writing (excerpt)

• Emphasize Shared Reading (excerpt)

• Examine Guided Reading (excerpt) 

• Shared Writing to Reading: Whole-Group Revision (video: Regie Routman in Residence: Reading-Writing Connections, Heinemann, 4 minutes)

• Sharing Your Writing and Reading Life (video: Regie Routman in Residence: Reading-Writing Connections, Heinemann, 3 minutes)

• Nurturing Writers Through Poetry (video series) 

• Extensive lesson plan for integrating literacy into the content areas (downloadable) 

Visit Regie’s website at regieroutman.org.