Determine your most useful form to PreWrite (lists, mapping, webbing, graphic organizers, etc.)
Steps
Two Great Ways to Start…
Create a bubble chart – try to answer the important questions:
WHO? WHAT? WHERE? WHEN? WHY? HOW?
Just start writing! Pretend you’re talking to someone you know, and write everything that you can for five minutes.
Allow your thoughts to flow! You will be surprised at how many good thoughts you will be able to sift from a burst of ‘scramble writing’.
ALL writing can be edited, smoothed out, etc. But first, we need to write!!
Use a bubble chart that works for you. The pattern doesn’t matter. The ideas you link together matter.
March 23, 2007
Kristi Hartley
Taylor County Middle School
Step 2: Writing
Select your writing ideas from your PreWriting Exercise.
Write, Write, Write!
Have you completed your thoughts through your writing?
March 23, 2007
Kristi Hartley
Taylor County Middle School
Steps
AGAIN, don’t worry too much about the ‘tiny’ details like spelling, grammar, and ‘Does This Make Sense?’.
AGAIN, don’t worry too much about the ‘tiny’ details like spelling, grammar, and ‘Does This Make Sense?’.
Focus on getting COMPLETE sentences down on paper.
You will return to the document and make the necessary changes later. It’s more important to get your ideas down in sentence form. You can (SHOULD) modify the document later.
####### Editing Example ########
I want to talk to you about skool violense. It s a big problem at my skool.
CHANGE the example to: School violence is a big problem on my campus.
Notice that the IDEA is the same. All I did was change it from two sentences to one, and I corrected the spelling.
What’s the difference between EDITING & REVISING?
Editing is what we should do first.
Editing is all about spelling, grammar, and sentence construction.
Read your work aloud (whisper if you must). It helps find the grammar problems.
Revising is what should come last, before publishing.
Revising is about deciding which sentences to keep, which to change, and how to structure your paragraphs so that the sentences ‘flow’ together in a meaningful way.
For example: Sometimes we don’t start our paragraphs with the main idea. When we revise, we should make sure that every sentence has a strong topic sentence to build on!
