ABSTRACT
Writing is one of the most complex skills that students must learn and it is not surprising that some have great difficulty in achieving proficiency (Svensson 2010). While reading and writing are separate processes, and in some respects draw upon different areas of knowledge and skill, there is also some overlap between reading and writing. For example, automaticity in recognition of sight words is fairly closely linked with automaticity in writing those common words correctly; knowledge of phonics helps both reading and spelling; familiarity with grammar and sentence structure is important in writing and is also one of the cueing systems used in fluent reading.
