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The Writing Process

• Five Steps to Writing it Right

Spend time on each step for A great finished
product!
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Do you know how to use all five steps of the
writing process? PREWRITING DRAFTING REVISING PRO
OFREADING PUBLISHING
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STEP 1 PREWRITING Prewriting means jotting down
ideas for your story or article before you begin
writing it in paragraphs.
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PREWRITING Graphic organizers are great tools to
use for prewriting. You might want to use a
web, a timeline, or an information chart. You
can even make up your own graphic organizer.
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YOUR TURN Choose one of the topics below. Then
complete a graphic organizer to generate ideas
about your topic.
An interesting science experiment
The perfect ice cream sundae
How I met the alien from Pluto
The day a medieval knight knocked on my door
My favorite outdoor adventure
My favorite board game
My favorite pet
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STEP 2 DRAFTING Drafting means writing a rough
copy. Use the ideas from your graphic organizer
and write them in the form of one or more
paragraphs.
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DRAFTING When you write a rough draft, just keep
going. You dont need to stop to correct things
like spelling, capitalization, punctuation, or
grammar. You can correct them later. And if
your rough draft gets a little unorganized, you
can fix that later, too. You can even add or
delete sentences later. When you are writing a
rough draft just keep going.
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YOUR TURN Look over the ideas that you wrote in
the PREWRITING step. Then use those ideas to
write a rough draft of a paragraph.
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STEP 3 REVISING Revising means improving your
writing. It means making major changes such as
adding details, deleting parts that dont fit,
and reorganizing.
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• REVISING
• Here are some things that you can do to revise
  your writing.
• Add descriptive words.
• Add descriptive phrases.
• Add more facts or details (if you are writing
  non-fiction).
• Add more action (if you are writing fiction).
• Delete anything that is repeated by accident.
• Delete anything that doesnt stick to your topic.
• Rearrange any sentences that sound like they are
  not in the right order.

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YOUR TURN Look over the rough draft that you
wrote in the DRAFTING step. Make at least five
improvements. You can do this by writing in the
margins, crossing out, or whatever you need to
do. It doesnt need to be neat yet.
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STEP 4 PROOFREADING Proofreading means
correcting errors in your writing. It means
checking for and correcting errors in
capitalization, punctuation, grammar, spelling,
and format.
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PROOFREADING There are many, many kinds of errors
that you can look for when you proofread. Here
are just a few. Does every sentence begin with
a capital letter? Did you capitalize all proper
nouns? Did you use end punctuation correctly to
avoid run-on sentences? Did you use commas for
words in a series? Did you use quotation marks
for a speakers exact words? Do you subjects
and verbs agree? Did you check the spelling of
any words that you are unsure of? Did you
indent each paragraph?
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• YOUR TURN
• Look over your improved draft from the REVISING
  step. Check for and correct each of these kinds
  of errors one at a time.
• Capitalization
• Punctuation
• Grammar
• Spelling
• Format

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STEP 5 PUBLISHING Publishing means presenting
your finished product to an audience.
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• PUBLISHING
• There are several ways to publish your work.
  Here are a few.
• Hand in a neat final copy to your teacher.
• Type it in a class magazine or newspaper.
• Read it aloud to the class.
• Illustrate it and post it on a bulletin board.
• Make it into a booklet.
• Do you have other ideas?

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YOUR TURN Look over the paper that you
corrected in the PROOFREADING step. Create a
neat final copy that is ready to be
published. Then, decide how you will present it
to the class.
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Now, lets see if you know all of the steps!
Choose the five steps of the writing process from
the boxes below and put them in the correct order?
Revising
Proofreading
Predicting
Spelling
Prewriting
Concluding
Publishing
Drafting
Check your answers on the next slide.
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Answer Key
Prewriting
Drafting
Revising
Proofreading
Publishing
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Can you explain what a writer needs to do at
each of these steps in the writing
process? Check your answers on the
next slide.
Prewriting
Drafting
Revising
Proofreading
Publishing
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Answer Key
Prewriting Use a graphic organizer to jot down
ideas for your paper.
Drafting -- Write a rough copy.
Revising -- Make major changes such as
reorganizing or adding or deleting parts.
Proofreading Correct capitalization,
punctuation, grammar, spelling, and format.
Publishing Write a neat final copy and choose a
way to present it to the class.
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Now that you know how to use all five steps of
the writing process, remember to put them to work
in your next piece of writing. PREWRITING DRAFTING
REVISING PROOFREADING PUBLISHING