1. Reading and Writing Connections

2. Reading and Writing Connections
Pre-writing
Pre-Reading
Examining personal views/ideas, reading others ideas
Developing content/Brainstorming
Thinking (Purpose/Audience/Tone within writing)
Planning (Organizing ideas)
Preview texts/vocabulary
Establish/predict a purpose in the writing
Connect what we already know to new information
Anticipate what we will learn (Title, subtitles, author’s background)

3. Reading and Writing Connection
Composing /Drafting
Active Reading
Follow a plan (rhetorical modes/organizational pattern/mixed patterns)
Develop a thesis statement
Support your thesis with specific evidence/examples
Highlight important information
Define, understand vocabulary in context
Visualize concepts/ideas
Take notes/annotate
Make meaning from text

4. Reading and Writing Connection
Revising/Editing
Post-Reading
Organize/ Establish a beginning, middle, and end of the essay.
Using examples in an understandable order (chronological, spatial, emphatic order)
Proofread, edit, spell check
Synthesis: pull together ideas and compare ideas from the readings.
Summarize/Paraphrase
Organize information (mapping, outlining)
Apply and Use