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Assigning writing is not teaching writing, and having students write a lot is not teaching writing.

It's just like if you put a lot of books in a classroom, students don't magically begin to read.

This is Susan Lambert and welcome to Science of Reading the podcast from Amplify.

This is episode 11 in our reading reboot, re-examining and building on foundational literacy concepts.

If you've been on this journey with us, you know that we've been bringing writing into this season's conversations.

As we've talked about again and again, it's so important to understand the interconnectedness of reading and writing.

And now, as we head into this season's home stretch, we have some episodes lined up that

are specifically focused on the critical role of writing.

Today we're fortunate to be joined by the perfect person for this topic, Dr. Judith

Hockman, author and founder of the Writing

Revolution. Dr. Hockman is a longtime educator whose approach to writing instruction was featured

in an award-winning 2012 article in the Atlantic. From there, she founded the Writing Revolution,

a not-for-profit organization that spreads evidence-based strategies for writing instruction. Along with Natalie Wexler, she authored

The Writing Revolution, a guide to advancing thinking through writing in all subjects and grades,

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