While reading Hirvela's book, I really enjoyed how he perceived the relationship between reading and writing -- the idea of reading difficulties are in fact writing difficulties. According to Hirvela, reading was generally conceptualizer as a passive act of decoding meaning and information in accordance with the intentions of the author of a text.
However, reading is an act of composing. The more he researched on the topic, the more connections he found between the two. For example, there's inter textually and integration. Another example would be dynamic, complex and situation-based thinking, along with multimedia and multilayered learning. All of his ideas are something that I never exposed to before even though I was a journalism major in undergrad. I knew the reason why I could write good articles were not by accident. But the tough part was figuring out it was because the reading I had done before helped me to acquire writing proficiency.
Nevertheless, even if we noticed that it was unavoidable to treat reading and writing together, we still had trouble teaching these skills in a meaningful way. Some of the issues he addressed such us teachers were still following the traditional model, and thus, they were teaching reading and writing independently. As future teachers, not only do we need to teach kids effective reading strategies, but also we need to find out more about reading and how it relates to writing. Slowly but surely, we will need to ask ourselves: what does writing and reading share and what do readers and writers learn when reading and writing are connected.
However, reading is an act of composing. The more he researched on the topic, the more connections he found between the two. For example, there's inter textually and integration. Another example would be dynamic, complex and situation-based thinking, along with multimedia and multilayered learning. All of his ideas are something that I never exposed to before even though I was a journalism major in undergrad. I knew the reason why I could write good articles were not by accident. But the tough part was figuring out it was because the reading I had done before helped me to acquire writing proficiency.
Nevertheless, even if we noticed that it was unavoidable to treat reading and writing together, we still had trouble teaching these skills in a meaningful way. Some of the issues he addressed such us teachers were still following the traditional model, and thus, they were teaching reading and writing independently. As future teachers, not only do we need to teach kids effective reading strategies, but also we need to find out more about reading and how it relates to writing. Slowly but surely, we will need to ask ourselves: what does writing and reading share and what do readers and writers learn when reading and writing are connected.