When asked what benefit they gained from reading a literary work, all the
participants said that the literary work had served as a resource for what they had to
write. They also responded that for them, the reading-to-writing activity was
meaningful because they were able to find something to write. They also found it
helpful as they made connections to ideas and themes expressed in what they read.
Additionally, they realized that the act of writing is thinking about reading which in
turn produces writing. As the above statements, they were amazed with their written
production as this was their first experience of writing formally and at length.