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WRITING WORKSHOP
The Writing Process: Strategies for Writing
Learning Targets
• Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
• With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.
• Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
• Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
• Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
• Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on middle school topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing your own clearly.
The Writing Process
Writing is a recursive process, meaning that writers may repeat the steps of drafting, revising, and polishing many times before they are satisfied with their product. Successful writers are flexible in how they approach a writing situation. They use a variety of strategies to carry out and manage the task of composing. This workshop is designed to help you understand the stages of the writing process and the strategies that will help you develop your own writing process.
To complete this workshop you will work with your teacher and your classmates to follow the writing process in planning, drafting, organizing, and revising and editing a model piece of writing. You will then use the writing process to independently write a piece of your choosing.
ACTIVITY 1
Exploring the Writing Process
Before Reading
1. What do you know about the writing process? Describe the stages you go through, from beginning to end, to publish a piece of writing.
Stages of the Writing Process
2. Consider the traditional stages of the writing process represented below and placed in random order. Work with a partner to brainstorm the role of the writer within each stage of the writing process.
LEARNING STRATEGIES Quickwrite, Previewing, Think-Pair-Share, Graphic Organizer, RAFT, Think Aloud, Generating Questions, Brainstorming, Self/ Peer Editing, Marking the Text, Sharing and Responding
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