Steve Graham and Michael Hebert’s 2010 research paper identifies three main practices that strengthen students’ reading skills through writing. They are:

1. Have students write about what they have read.

• Respond to a text in writing such as writing personal reactions, analyzing and interpreting the text.
• Write a summary.
• Write notes.
• Answer questions about a text in writing, or create and answer written questions about a text.

2. Teach students the necessary writing skills and processes that go into creating a text:

• Writing process and conventions.
• Text structure.
• How to write a paragraph.
• How to construct a sentence.

3. Have students write more and more often.