If you want to become a better reader, READ more; if you want to become a better writer, READ more.

We need to give students choice in WHAT they read and sustained time TO read.

If reading and writing is valued, if it is modelled, and if students are given agency over it…then a reciprocal relationship will form.

We need to give students choice in WHAT they write and sustained time TO write.


Reading is like breathing in; writing is like breathing out.

Pam Allyn

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