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Writing Workshop 1 (continued)
Check Your Understanding
You have completed the Prewriting stages in the writing process. Explain why these stages are important steps before the actual drafting of your writing. How can they help make drafting your writing easier and more fully developed?
Stage 3: Drafting the Text
Once you have finished the prewriting stage, you are ready to create a working draft of your text. Using your RAFT thinking, your free-writing, looping, adding and any other brainstorming, you are ready to write.
“Writing should be like riding a bike down a hill, bouncing along, going fast.” —Don Murray
1. Revisit the Writer’s Role graphic organizer and discuss how this quote pertains to the drafting stage of the writing process. Then describe your experiences with drafting in the past.
2. Before you begin drafting, think about organizing your ideas. Create a preliminary organizational structure by creating a topic outline that shows what ideas you will include and in what order the ideas will be developed. Be sure to focus your attention on building ideas to create a focused and coherent piece of writing. For help in doing this, examine and track the organization of the model essay. Note how the narrative develops and when it shifts to explaining or expository development.
Sample response: Paragraphs 1–9 are narrative, each with a specific incident and arranged chronologically. Note the time transitions. Paragraphs 10–15 shift to explanatory mode and answer the rhetorical question posed in paragraph 10.
3. Once you have completed your draft, read through it and use looping to pinpoint areas where you might further refine your writing for clarity and detail in preparation for sharing your draft with your peers. Consider the areas of the draft where you would like peer support, and note appropriate questions and/ or comments to share in a small group.
Stage 4: Sharing and Responding in Writing Groups
“Reader response drives revision.” —Kelly Gallagher
1. Revisit the Writer’s Role graphic organizer, and discuss how this quote pertains
to the sharing and responding stage of the writing process.
2. In a writing group, all members work collaboratively to assist the writer through the revision process by asking clarifying questions that may help to develop
a quality piece of writing. Look at the “Roles of the Participants in Writing Groups” for things to consider while sharing and responding.
8 SpringBoard® Writing Workshop with Grammar Activities Grade 7
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