Read as writers or Write as readers

By Edmée Pardo

For some years now I have been participating in a reading program called Writing as Readers with the method designed by Estela D'Angelo of the Spanish Association of Reading and Writing (AELE) and which is carried out, thanks to a lot of alliances, in several countries around the world. One of its pillars is that written culture is practiced with two verbs: reading and writing. It is not that one reads and then writes, they are not consecutive practices but parallel. Reading leads to writing and writing leads to reading.