Prewriting

Planning

Drafting

Revising

Editing

Publishing

Each of this steps will help writters to improve their skills by themselves. this also will be helpful for future scenarios.

Quick Tips for Fixing Up Your Writing

Make the verbs as active as possible.

Make the nouns as concrete as possible.

Elaborate on main characters with traits and actions.

Use quotations to give authority.

Make the piece factual or personal.

Correct conventions are a courtesy to the reader. (spelling, grammar, punctuation)

Revising Mini-Lessons

• Similes • Brilliant beginnings • Exceptional endings • Onomatopoeia • Alliteration • Anadiplosis • Strong verbs • Adding emotions • Slowing down the “it” moment (climax) • Removing unnecessary information • Adding or deleting a part

What Good Writers Do When They Revise

• Change sentences • Add words • Pump up boring words • Reread, reread, reread • Answer all of the reader's questions • Remove sentences • Add sentences • Rearrange sentences • Check and recheck

-Revision Checklists The students have a working draft to test and apply not only the review lesson but also the editing lesson. -Revising Cubes Six ways students you can check your work.

Inverted Triangle for: Narrowing Down a Topic or Idea

Storm and Sort for: Planning Beginning, Middle, and End

Quick Sketch for: Kinesthetic and Visual Learners/Recalling Details

Storyboard for: Sequencing Narratives

Chain of Events/Y Map for: Revising a Piece of Writing for Details

E Chart for: Organizing Details in Expository Writing

Story Star: Naming the Story Problem

Freeze and Question: Students freeze and stop writing, no matter where they can be in your draft.

Sharing: gives students the opportunity to learn from each other

Open-Ended Questions: Serves as a guide to better understand the language and teach and learn more techniques

We can ideas from movies, books, memories and also from our favorite words

Webbing for: Generating Ideas and Planning

Stroll Down Memory Lane for: Narrowing Topics

Heart Mapping for: Discovering Ideas That Resonate

Hand Mapping for: Kinesthetic Idea Generation and Planning

Noticing for: Elaborating on Ideas

Writing Back for: Generating and Sequencing Ideas

ABC Quilt for: Generating Ideas and Organization