Well, the reading-writing connection is something that is … gotten a lot of attention and literacy for a lot of people does mean reading. But over the years, we’ve seen a shift where writing and reading have come to an equal point at the policy level and in the research level in a lot of ways. But I still think at the practical level, reading still does get a lot of attention. The thing that’s really interesting is that when you’re writing, you’re reading, and so there’s a real heavy reading component in writing. Also, there’s some really interesting research about how handwriting success early on is a predictor of reading success. So I think that when you think about when you’re writing, you’re always reading. You’re reading what you already wrote, and so there’s this really important aspect. Also, I think anybody who does write realizes that reading is a great feeder into helping you write better. So either model texts that are helping you. And so there’s a really important way to think about the connections between reading and writing, and what I like to say is we should be reading and writing, but writing before you read, writing while you’re reading, writing after you read, and really integrating those two very, very closely.
