Please write a paragraph in response to the following prompt:

Write a paragraph describing your absolute best or worst experience with writing. Be sure to include your reactions to the experience and reflect on why the experience was memorable.

Writing Prompt

The Writing Process5 Steps to Better Writing

Pre-Writing: Ideas, organization Drafting: Writing it down for the first time Revision: Making it sound “just right” Editing: Checking the conventions Publishing: Creating the final copy

The 5 Steps of the Writing Process

Following all five steps take time Time = A Quality End Result Teachers should plan on facilitating students

in class throughout all steps of the writing process

Check in on students’ progress throughout the assignment

An Investment of Time

Helps get your ideas flowing Put it in writing so you don’t forget Organize your ideas Makes your paper easier to write Sets a purpose for your paper before you

even start writing

Pre Writing

Students have a chance to play around with the topic before they put pencil to paper

Student engagement increases—they can consider different topics and/or perspectives of the topics, and find one that they like

Differentiation: use organizers that fit the needs of the students

Why Pre-Write?

Compose your ideas into sentences and paragraphs

Don’t expect it to be perfect Expect to make changes! It should be messy Shows the thought process that you went

through as you wrote Write on ONE SIDE of the paper Double space to leave room for revision

Drafting

Helps students work out the kinks in the piece of writing

Can be used as a formative assessment to evaluate the student’s understanding of your material

Helps assess if students are on track for meeting the lesson objectives

Identifies areas where student may need additional support (possible differentiation point)

Why Draft?

This step should be done constantly throughout the drafting process

Focus on the traits of organization, word choice, sentence fluency, and voice when you’re revising

Read the piece of writing out loud to “hear” any mistakes or awkward passages

Revision

Students make changes based on the assessments made during the drafting stage

Students evaluate their writing and thought process to determine what is working and what isn’t

Opportunity for students to collaborate with peers during revision stage

Why Revise?

Editing focuses on conventions like capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and spelling

Have a partner help edit

Editing

Makes writing audience-friendly and publication-ready

Focusing on conventions is a main responsibility of writing teachers, however, give students time to complete this step

Why Edit?

Create a final copy of your writing Make your paper look like you are proud of

your work If you can’t type your final copy, write it

neatly in ink No crumples, rips, or “spiral fuzz” to make

your final copy look sloppy Make sure to check the rubric or checklist

from your teacher before you hand in your final copy

Publishing

Students can show off pride in the work they’ve done

Opportunity to reach an audience Publishing writing can influence readers This is where students meet teacher’s

expectations for an assignment

Why Publish?

Use these steps EVERY TIME you write anything

Even if it is a short piece of writing, you should still think (pre-write), draft, revise and edit (check it over) and publish (make it look the way the teacher expects)

This is not just for writing class—it’s for every class

Use it now, in high school, and beyond

When to Use the Writing Process