Week 6 & 7 Reflect

 

Week 6 &7

 

Shaquan Williams:

Reading and writing are both important components in language. Most times, we focus more on reading than on writing. This should not be since we use both in everyday life. To manage this, teachers need to emphasize the connections between reading and writing. Many educators teach reading and writing separately. Teachers should integrate reading and writing when they are planning lessons. By doing this, students improve their reading comprehension skills. (Graham & Hebert, 2010). According to (Stotsky, 1983), there are correlations between writing quality and reading experiences. This is simply saying that writers who reading are better at writing than those who don't and can also help the writers to retain and summarize information. This is all done through reading. Reading allows the writer the opportunity to be exposed to structures and language that they can use to improve their writing.

Makiba Ward:

During the week we focus on the connection between reading and writing. It is known that reading and writing have a strong connection in order for students to develop their reading and writing skills to a point of satisfaction. Additionally, when students write about a text they are reading, whether that be responding to questions, taking notes, or summarizing the material, this helps them to better understand and retain the material they are reading. On the other hand, reading and writing instruction don’t need to be kept separate. When combined, there are positive effects both in terms of students learning to write, and in terms of students learning to read. Reading and writing are both acts of communication. As students become skilled readers, they notice more than just the content of the text. Readers potentially observe sentence and paragraph structures, variations in pacing, and recurring themes. These observations cause the reader to employ metacognitive skills and try to get inside the writer’s head. Similarly, to write effectively, a writer must consider the perspective and needs of the reader.

In conclusion, it’s important for teachers to connect reading and writing within the classroom environment, for they will be able to integrate the writing process and the six (6) writing traits while bringing out different reading aspects of students. Moreover, students will also be able to improve their writing skills and reading fluency (even students that are at a lower level will be able to show their improvement). Furthermore, when teachers intentionally connect instruction and practice of reading and writing skills, they provide students with meaningful opportunities to automatize those skills. The connectivity of reading and writing allows students to begin to grow in their overall literacy skills. The best way to reinforce this link is to include a variety of opportunities for students to develop reading and writing skills simultaneously. This type of instruction ensures the automatization of targeted skills through practice and review. As a teacher in training the aspect of reading and writing connection as open my eyes to a different view of how effective it can impact a child literacy ability, with that said, once upon entry back into the classroom environment I would definitely be using the connection between reading and writing for more improvement and effective learning. 

 

Derika Joseph:

For this week, our focus will be on the Relationship between Reading and Writing. Reading and Writing share systemic elements, such that the structure of whatever is obtained in one modality can be applied in the other. In other words, whatever is gained during reading, can be done in writing as well, and vice versa. For example, writing activities can be helpful for bettering reading comprehension and for retention of information. As known, we read and write on a daily basis. In most cases, we read information about a particular topic to gain more knowledge, before writing about what we read for said topic. From this, we would hope that someone else would read what we have rewritten, and gain clarity or even information too. With this, it is important that our students are taught the importance of reading and writing, in order to understand why they should master and have these skills. Therefore, it is safe to say that reading and writing are interactive but also, they are interdependent.