#Readwrite corporation series

#Readwrite corporation series

Writing to Read is a part of a series of Carnegie Corporation of New York-funded reports intended to re-engineer literacy instruction across the curriculum to drive student achievement. As Writing to Read demonstrates, instruction in writing not only improves how well students write, but also enhances students’ ability to read a text accurately, fluently, and comprehensively.” Ensuring that adolescents become skilled readers and writers is not merely an option for America it is an absolute necessity. “Poor reading and writing skills not only threaten the well-being of individual Americans, but the country as a whole. “As the recent findings from the Nation’s Report Card in reading demonstrate, nearly 70 percent of the nation’s eighth graders fail to read at a proficient level,” said Bob Wise, president of the Alliance and former governor of West Virginia. Writing to Read: Evidence for How Writing Can Improve Reading identifies three core instructional practices that have been shown to be effective in improving student reading. A new report from Carnegie Corporation of New York and published by the Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance) finds that while the two skills are closely connected, writing is an often-overlooked tool for improving reading skills and content learning. Washington, D.C., ApAlthough reading and writing have become essential skills for almost every job, the majority of students do not read or write well enough to meet grade-level demands.