The Writing Process Posters

 I love teaching. It is one of my most favorite things to do. I love trying to make a challenging subject simple to understand.

The writing process can be overwhelming at times, especially for younger learners. I created writing process posters to help explain each process.

Step 1

This poster explains the prewriting, planning, and brainstorming step. It gives ideas of how to plan and prepare for the writing. They can use all the ideas or just the ones that will help them the most.

Step 2

This poster explains the drafting stage of the writing process. Sometimes I say it is the rough draft, the first draft, the messy copy, or the sloppy copy. Each student prefers a different term to help them remember it most so I try to use many different terms for this step. I let them know that in this step, we aren't so much worried about spelling and grammar as we are about the content. I let them know that if they forget something they can squeeze it in somewhere or draw arrows where it should be.

Step 3

This poster explains the revising step of the writing process. Now that students have written down everything they wanted to say, they can look it over to find ways to improve it by finding better words, adding descriptions, rearrange some of the sentences, or other revising tips. In this stage, they can read their work to someone and listen to their feedback and make necessary changes.

Step 4

This poster explains the proofreading or editing step of the writing process. Explain that this is the step where we take care of all the spelling and grammar issues. Now that they know what they want to say and how to say it they can focus on the spelling and grammar. In this step, they can edit, their peers can edit, and the teacher can edit. Discuss how they can choose to make changes after others give their suggestions. This is where students write their final copy. Sometimes I call this the clean copy because it is the opposite of the sloppy copy.

Step 5

This poster explains the publishing step of the writing process. This poster gives a list of ways to publish the paper. Students can chose how to publish or teachers may assign how it is to be published. 

You can see other lessons I created by visiting my teachers pay teachers store. I will be posting more lesson ideas here as well. My goal is to post something weekly! I am open to feedback and suggestions of what you want to read about.

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