Leah Mermelstein

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"Leah demonstrates throughout her book that she cares that you and your students not only use the reading/writing connection but that you also understand it. Every word, every sentence is carefully crafted towards this understanding."
--Lucy Calkins, Columbia University

“Reading this book was like having a conversation with a respected colleague. It is lively, logical and interesting. … This is the best description of meaning, structure and visual sources of information that I have ever seen.”
--Tara Azwell, Emporia State University

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Reading/Writing Connections
in the K-2 Classroom:
Find the Clarity and Then Blur the Lines

Leah will show you how to use the reading/writing connection to help your students learn more efficiently and effectively.

Photo by Angela Jimenez

Specifically, she builds your understanding in this exquisite book by organizing it into three sections, each section building on the one before it. Part 1 explores the essential understandings of the reading/writing connection. Part 2 gives you practical planning strategies so that you can plan in more efficient and effective ways. And finally Part 3 outfits you with teaching strategies that once again show you how to use the reading/writing connection to strengthen your everyday encounters with students. In each of these sections Leah gives you practical ideas that are guided by both her beliefs and her principles.

Because Leah has taught young students herself she knows firsthand how important assessment is and has carefully incorporated assessment into every chapter so that you’ll understand how to assess in the service of student learning. Finally, you’ll be pleased to see that Leah also provides you with many practical ways to integrate phonemic awareness, phonics, word study and spelling into the teaching and planning of both reading and writing.

Selected Works

Non-fiction

Don't Forget to Share: The Crucial Last Step in the Writing Workshop
This brand new book will show you how to make your share sessions more instructional.

Nonfiction

Reading/Writing Connections in the K-2 Classroom: Find the Clarity and Then Blur the Lines
This book demonstrates how through careful, explicit assessing, planning, and teaching every student can understand and use the reading/writing connection to become stronger readers and writers at the same time.

Units of Study for Primary Writing: A Yearlong Curriculum: Launching the Writing Workshop
This book shows teachers how to launch a joyful and rigorous Writing Workshop in their classrooms.

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