How writing improves reading skills--study

How writing improves reading skills--study: "Reading has long been recognized as a way to improve a student’s writing. A new study says the reverse -- that writing can improve reading skills as well as content learning -- is equally true, and identifies three ways that teachers and even parents can help students make the connection. The study, published by the Alliance for Excellent Education, comes at a time when many students are not reading and writing well enough to meet grade-level expectations. Recent results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the national standardized test sometimes called “the nation’s report card,” showed that nearly 70 percent of the nation’s eighth graders do not read at the proficient, or highest level."