Reading has an essential part in writing

Written by: Princess Sarah De Mesa

In four macro skills: Reading was placed on the third level which followed by writing skills. These skills were usually implied since we are young on how teachers taught us to learn the basic skills by distinguishing sounds, imitating for what we have heard, reading a particular word and lastly, by seeing the strokes of letters and speaking the word itself which trying to be shown that these skills were intended to be learn by the students to be able to read and write. If you have noticed that the readers has the advantage to produce better writings unlike to the people who do not want to read since readers were exposed themselves to the author's knowledge, language, style and text structure to his finished texts. Reading can be considered as the source of information and ideas which readers would get and learn from it. Commonly, most of the writers will adopt his or her knowledge for what he reads which can be seen on how he write, the style and the structure he was implied to his writing that can be serve as a proof that reading has an essential part in writing. On account of, the writings you have read from different authors gives you a prior knowledge about the cultures and experiences of people on a particular area which can lead you to understand and appreciate their lifestyle even you are not one of them you can reach their cultures by just reading a material from famous authors of their country.

What does this mean for teaching?

Teachers should expose the student in different kinds of reading material in order to motivate and inspire them to learn with it. You will do that by choosing a good material that will suited to their experiences and age. And also as a teacher you must looked like that you will do reading in order to convince them that you really learn with it and it’s really helpful for their composition. Moreover, you must teach them to determine different genres of writing by knowing the author's purpose and what the authors’ target audience to his writings in order the students know how to approach or hit their audience by knowing their age and experiences.