While oral language is a more natural human development process, written language (including reading and writing) must be taught. Is Explicit Reading & Writing Instruction Necessary? Therefore, the explicit instruction of encoding and decoding strategies support progress toward mastery, which is the ability to read, write, and spell as one body. Researchers have found that reading and writing are ‘essentially the same process of meaning construction’ and that readers and writers share a surprising number of characteristics” (Carol Booth Olson, 2003).
“Reading and writing have been thought of as opposites – with reading regarded as receptive and writing regarded as productive.
Encoding and decoding strategies, together, are required for mastery of linguistic communication.
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