How Reading and Writing Can Affect One's Social Life

When dealing with a disability or delay in either reading or writing a person could feel left out or unworthy because they don’t know how to communicate with others. Socially this could hurt someone very bad because in the world we live in now you need to know how to do both. Children and adults could get picked on because they cannot read or write. Children love to read books and discuss them and if you can’t do either of these children will not want to participate in different activities causing them to withdraw themselves from the people in the classroom. I have found that students get frustrated with teachers when asked to read something out loud or write something on the board if they are unable to do so. When I was in the first grade my teacher had me and some other students write our journal entries on the board. I felt really bad for doing this because all the students in the class were going to see our journal entries. I wasn’t the best speller and I wasn’t that good at grammar either. She then asked the students what was wrong with the journal entries. She wrote in grammatical errors that we had done and I felt so bad because I felt that this was a journal that we wrote in as a leisure thing and it was only for her to see. After that incident I was discouraged from sharing any type of writing in my classroom.

As a teacher I would try to address this issue by allowing the student to have one on one tutoring or communicate with the student through a journal to allow them to improve their skills in both. Our book stated that some students did well with journals and it helped them to express their feelings about different things going on with their lives. I believe that students feel more comfortable with writing things down. This allows you to get things off of your mind in a fast and convenient way.