Book Walk: Works That Move Our Teaching Forward: Developing Personal Literacies: Writing through Reading

Central to any serious consideration about the development of a writing identity is the axiom that reading plays a fundamental role in such development. Nicholas Paley reinforces this principle by discussing three personal experiences with reading that were key in the formation of his own writing consciousness. The discussion of these experiences is organized in a non-sequential way in order to suggest the recursive, intertwined nature of reading’s power in the forming of a writing identity.