Reading

The Writing Process

Children develop ideas and fill in a graphic organizer.

Rough Draft

Students use the completed graphic organizer to create a rough copy.

Revision

The children work to revise the rough copies by:

* incorporating specific details

* including descriptive words and phrases

* creating varied sentence beginnings

* using more interesting and creative words

* developing attention-grabbing beginning and closing sentences

Editing

They edit the stories by:

* correcting spelling errors

* checking for appropriate capitalization for sentence beginnings,names and the word "I" * making sure punctuation is included

Final Copy

The students create an error-free final copy of their story.