Abstract of

Teaching Tips
Connecting Reading and Writing Through Author's Craft

Debbie Rickards

Shirl Hawes

Teachers can link the isolated components of a balanced literacy program by helping students make focused connections in reading and writing throughout the day. The authors share how two teachers made such connections through components of author's craft. They conclude with an extensive list of minilesson topics designed to improve students' understanding of texts and develop their skills as authors of their own texts.

Abstract from Rickards, D., & Hawes, S. (2006, December). Connecting Reading and Writing Through Author's Craft. The Reading Teacher, 60(4), 370–373. doi: 10.1598/RT.60.4.6