Contribution Title: The Literacy Loop – Bridging Reading and Writing Strategy 1: The "Writer’s Eye" Reading Concept: Reading to deconstruct how a text is built, rather than just what it says. Example: Give students a paragraph from the Kaveri textbook. Ask them to highlight only the adjectives. Then, challenge them to rewrite that same paragraph describing their own bedroom using different adjectives but the exact same sentence structure. Strategy 2: Interactive Character Letters Concept: Converting receptive understanding of a character into productive creative writing. Example: After reading a story, ask students: "If the protagonist had a smartphone, what would their last three text messages be?" Have them write those three messages to show they understood the character’s current conflict. Strategy 3: Mentor Text Modeling Concept: Using a "Gold Standard" text as a blueprint for student production Example: Show a 3-sentence description of a storm. Sentence 1: The sky turned grey. Sentence 2: Thunder rumbled. Sentence 3: Rain fell. Task: Students must now write a 3-sentence description of a "Sunny Day" using that same rhythm (Subject + Verb + Detail). Strategy 4: The "Annotation Bridge" Concept: Turning passive reading into active "conversation" with the text. Example: Instead of a worksheet, give students a poem and tell them they must find two "mystery words" and write a synonym in the margin for each. This small act of writing during reading cements the vocabulary. https://static.vikaspedia.in/mediastorage/filestorage/20260413204657_The_Literacy_Loop_compressed.pdf