1. Integrating Writing
Reading response journals are one way to include writing into reading lessons. Students can either freely write or have a specific topic to write about after reading a book or a chapter from a book. This can be used independently, whole group or during guided reading.
Students can write double entry responses where they write an important part of text on one side of a t-chart and on the other they write how they connected to it or their opinion of it. This can be used independently, whole group or during guided reading.
Students can create a class book after reading a particular story. For example, in first grade we read the Dr. Seuss story Green Eggs and Ham. Students then create their own page of the story with rhyming words. We put those together to have a class book and then read the book to the class. Afterwards it goes in our classroom library.
I love giving students a choice board after reading a book. There are usually 9 different options that students can choose from of how they want to respond to a particular chapter or even the whole book. They all include writing of some sort. They might be to create and alternative ending for the story, write a letter to the author, create a scene from the book and explain, create a comic strip with dialogue bubbles, etc.

2. Integrating Technology
Edublog is a resource where students have their own blog all linked to the teachers. You can give students a topic that you want them to write about, it could be in relation to the novel they are reading and they can write about it. The teacher can give them access to their peers and they can leave comments on one another’s blog as well as the teachers. It is a great way to teach digital citizenship as well.
Seesaw is an app that serves as a digital portfolio for students. There are many ways to use Seesaw in the classroom to help enhance both reading and writing. Not only can you post comments to your peers work but you can record yourself reading to listen back to for fluency, create book reviews using a book chat feature, take a picture of work and highlight sight words or vocabulary words. The possibilities with Seesaw are endless and they can be shared with parents!
Texting story app is where you can create a text conversation between two people. I am going to use this for characters from a book, where my students can create a conversation between the two, or themselves and a character or even the author. Another way this can be used is to write a conversation using vocabulary words in context. The teacher will be able to see if the child is understanding how to use the word.
Windows movie maker or imovie are both great resources for students to create book trailers. After reading a book students can use either of these resources to create a video with pictures and words to give a brief summary about their book. These can then be shared with the class during a movie day or made into QR codes and hung up next to book covers in order for students to preview new books and decide which they would like to read. The following link is to a teacher who does this with her class and gives a better explanation.