When I started to read the chapter, I especially enjoy the idea that reading and writing can be similar as meaning-making processes. Before, I didn't know how reading supports writing and how writing supports reading. Most of the cases, I was so tired of finishing all the readings, which left me no time to think about how reading and writing helps each other. My academic life in China made me perceived reading as only reading, and writing as only writing. I love the section when the author talks about defining writing to read. The author mentions writing to read, writing for reading and writing while reading. And through that, what I learned was that the act of writing down one's questions, ideas and so forth, allows us to think deeper of what we have read and why we read it.
Working in the journalism field, I totally agree when the author discusses that writing has a unique power to bring clarity to our thoughts, to sooth our nerves and to provide new ways of examining situation, to allow us to review alternative interpretations of events, and so forth. I was surprised by the critique that the author brings up. He wrote that, "many American schoolchildren have been taught to read individual words without an understanding of the system by which words are constructed." He pointed our that students are taught to read in a kind of "vacuum." As future teachers, we should always keep alert of what needs to be changed in the classroom. Also, we shouldn't just rely on one technique. We need to evaluate teaching methods in a way that's transparent -- the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Working in the journalism field, I totally agree when the author discusses that writing has a unique power to bring clarity to our thoughts, to sooth our nerves and to provide new ways of examining situation, to allow us to review alternative interpretations of events, and so forth. I was surprised by the critique that the author brings up. He wrote that, "many American schoolchildren have been taught to read individual words without an understanding of the system by which words are constructed." He pointed our that students are taught to read in a kind of "vacuum." As future teachers, we should always keep alert of what needs to be changed in the classroom. Also, we shouldn't just rely on one technique. We need to evaluate teaching methods in a way that's transparent -- the good, the bad, and the ugly.