Chapter 1 "Building a knowledge base in reading"

Children understand reading through writing. There is close connections between reading and writing. Children build an oral language and knowledge as they learn to read and write.

These things stuck out the most to me in chapter one, mainly because so many times reading and writing are taught as two separate things. Sure they are taught by the same teacher and often times more than not in the same class. I think until we understand that children understand reading through writing that we cannot properly teach them how to dissect and understand the text they are reading. This chapter had many great points and I think by better understanding these key concepts we can help students understand how to read and write better in connection with one another.