The Writing Process: The Five Stages Of Reading

In this comparison essay I will be addressing the reading process and it's 5 stage process as well as the writing process with it's 5 stage process both found in the Literacy in the 21st century textbook. The two processes go hand in hand and integrated together can benefit students with the ability to read and write using the thoughtful process with both strategies and skills. With the five stages of the process in both reading and writing the ultimate goal of both is gaining knowledge. The reading process has 5 stages the first is prereading which takes place before actually starting the book you begin by getting background information and peaking the readers' interest on the book, you can use the knowledge from the readers everyday experiences
For the prewriting stage the teacher can allow the student to choose how they're going to write their genre the students can also choose what exactly they're going to mention about the book. The drafting would also cover the responding in reading because the students are talking about what they've read and writing it out. The students will need to edit their journals to see what they last wrote about as well as explore parts of the text to make sure they don't leave anything out that they had planned on mentioning, while editing they can check for correct spelling, capitalization, punctuation and grammar errors. In the final stage for both process the student ultimate goal is to reflect on what they've learned so the final project could be writing an essay on what they read about and how they felt about the book. Once the essay is finished, they can share their essay with the class by reading it
The two processes integrated together can help students gain knowledge of the correct way to read and write, the more the student reads the better they become at writing and vise versa. Readers participate in many of the same activities that a writer would use, for example, using background knowledge that was gained from prior life experiences, setting a purpose, determining the importance, monitoring the progress, repairing errors and evaluating the piece being worked on. The two processes go hand in hand and used properly will help students become well rounded readers and writers and understanding the relationship between the two can help the students transition back and forth between them without a