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 * AMY FINDLAY**

=__**READING & WRITING**__=

Like Romeo and Juliet, so too, do reading and writing go hand in hand. Without one of these aspects, the other would cease to exist. It would be near impossible to teach one of these life long skills, without breaching on the other. Reading and writing support, influence and control one another. This is not to say that if someone is to grasp one of these skills with ease and at a high standard, that they will have the same ability in the other, but they will have a better understanding and background knowledge in the corresponding area of literacy.

“Writing and reading do support each other and it is a two-way process where both shed light on each other.” (Hill, 2006, p 287) These two main aspects, which make up literacy rely and bounce off one another. “Children can self-correct in writing to achieve the meaning they seek. They self-correct in reading in the same way to get meaning. Children use letters, words and sentences in both processes and they compare and contrast what they read with what they write.” (Hill, 2006, p 288)