Chapter 4: Reading & Writing
Your instructor may ask you to do one or more of the following activities.
- Draw a short comic strip that illustrates how you learned to read and write. (You won’t be judged on your artistic ability). You can focus on one incident in the story of how you learned to read and write or try to illustrate the main parts.Then, write a short email to your instructor that describes
- How you decided what to include in your comic and what to leave out.
- What this comic says about your reading and writing beliefs.
- Write a letter to your instructor that tells them what you believe about reading and writing. Be sure to include:
- Whether or not you think your beliefs are helpful.
- Whether you would like to change any of your beliefs.
- If you speak a different language or have lived in different cultures, write about how the reading and writing beliefs compare to the reading/writing beliefs in Canada. Do you have different reading and writing beliefs for each language you speak? Write a few paragraphs about your findings.
- Re-read the “Ways to Switch Up Your Writing Process,” and pick a few methods that are interesting to you. Try them over the next few weeks, then write a memo to your instructor reporting on how the experience went.
