Ms. Sabeen Presentation- Reading and writing skills.pptx
1. BRIDGING THE GAP
BETWEEN READING
AND WRITING SKILLS
BY SARA NIAZI
M-PHIL ELT K.C 2013-15
Instructor: Ms. Sabeen
Course: Study Skills
2. THEORISTS HAVE WARNED THAT
THESE TWO SKILLS SHOULD NOT
BE TAUGHT IN ISOLATION AND
ANY POSSIBLE DIVISION
BETWEEN THE TWO WHILE
TEACHING COULD BE
DANGEROUS.
(FITZGERELD & SHANAHAN, 2000,
P40)
Perspective:
4. Main Points:
• Conglomeration of reading and
writing skills through suggested
CR activities
• Typology of the suggested CR
activities. (as endorsed by
theorists)
• Conclusion
5. Source:
A report by
Steve Graham and Michael Hebert
Vanderbilt University
Experimented teaching various
writing skills to improve the reading
skills of students (of different levels)
in a local school in USA.
6. Target area of learning:
Teaching
various
writing skills
Reading
skills
ENHANC
ES
Grammar
and spelling
Carr, (2001)
Comprehensi
on level
7. The suggested writing
practices:
• Writing summaries– Taylor
and Beach (1984), Rinehart
Stahl and Erickson (1986)
• Taking notes – Denner
(1987)
• Concept mapping -
Chang, Chen and Sung
(2002)
• Answering questions in
written form – Peverly and
Wood (2001)
• Generating Questions in
writing – Cohen (1983)
1. Writing
about the
text they
have read.
Wittrock
(1990)
8. The suggested writing
practices:
• Teaching text
structures for
writing paragraphs,
on sentence
construction skills –
Hunt o’ Donnell
(1970), Crowhurst
(1991).
• Spelling Grammar -
Ehri (2000), Neville
and Searls (1991)
2. Teaching
students the
process
involved in
creating
texts-
Fitzgereld
and
Shanahan
9. The suggested writing
practices:
• Penpalling- Dana,
Scheffler, Richmond
and Draper (1991)
• Daily diary/journal
writing- Peters (1991)
3. Increase
how much
students
write –
(Applebee,
(1984)
10. Conclusion:
Questions, note taking, summary
writing and extended response
The application however, depends on
the goals established by the learners
and teacher.
Different purposes
11. Final note:
Dahl and Freppon
(1995), assert that the
teacher plays a very
vital role in deciding
the methods and time
for skillful
amalgamation of the
two skills to attain
lucrative results.
