PD Pop: The Writing Rope: Integrating Reading & Writing Instruction with Joan Sedita (K-12) - Free to all ESC Members!
- Calendar
- Workshops
- Date
- 12.11.2025 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm
- Author
- Kim McCutchan
- Url
- https://reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0005-0003-832a6af03486492cb12f7ff55a8a5a42
Description
Reading and writing share the same cognitive processes and oral language base. This session presents an overview of The Writing Rope model for writing instruction (Sedita, 2019) and emphasizes the importance of integrating reading and writing instruction. The Writing Rope represents multiple components of writing instruction as strands in a rope: 1) Critical Thinking (generating ideas and information, stages of the writing process), 2) Syntax (syntactic awareness, sentence elaboration, punctuation), 3) Text Structure (narrative, informational, opinion; paragraph structure; patterns of organization, 4) Writing Craft (awareness of task, audience, purpose; word choice; literary devices, 5) Transcription (spelling and handwriting fluency). This framework will be compared with Scarborough's Reading Rope (2006). Details about each writing strand will be shared along with suggestions for how instruction for multiple skills and strategies support reading as well as writing ability. Joan will incorporate content from her Writing Rope book and her most recent book, Essentials of Adolescent Literacy. This PD Pop is free to all ESC Members and will NOT be recorded.