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In an attempt to develop a practical theory of literacy instruction, Jerry Harste and his colleagues Kathy Short and Carolyn Burke began working with teachers in first-through sixth-grade classrooms. Their aim was to create the best literacy- learning enviroment possible given what is currently known about how young children learn to read and write.

Creating Classriims For Authors: The Reading-Writing Connection is a result of the involvement. Written in response to teachers' requests for a practical reference orguide to organizing process-centered classrooms, this volume presents a curricular frame around which teachers can plan classroom activities that help students understand what reading and writing have to do with reasoning and learning. Through this cirriculum, students come to see reading and writing as composing, composing as learning, and learning as a form of authhorship.

Here, readers will find Harste, Short and Burke at their best: sharing their lesson ideas and demonstrating how teachers might set up a process-centered reading and writing classroom. -- from book's back cover