Writing as a Process - for kindergartners and others

[KAREN_OTTO -at- HP-SPOKANE-OM2 -dot- OM -dot- HP -dot- COM]

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     My 5 y.o. daughter's school has a writing program that I found very
     interesting, so I decided to share it with you.

     The school is K-12, and they use this process in *every* class, with
     varying levels of sophistication. The system was created by Katie
     Johnson. She goes into a lot more detail in her books.

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     Writing as a Process

     Prewriting: getting ideas, thinking, talking, choosing topics,
     webbing/outlining/clustering

     Drafting: putting ideas down, getting text onto paper, getting started
     with writing

     Revising: thinking/talking about how the piece sounds, what works for
     the reader, what detail/additions/changes would make it clearer

     Editing: working on how the piece looks, on punctuation, spelling, the
     conventions of English

     Publishing: getting the piece ready for the world/getting into
     print/sharing
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     What I found most interesting is: THIS IS THE SAME PROCESS THAT I USE!
     Certainly I spend much more time on the facts, and hopefully my
     structures are a *little* more sophisticated, but I do every single
     one of these steps.

     It's remarkable how this woman has boiled this very common process
     down to be understood by kindergartners, and how well it works.
     Now I can easily explain to my daughter just exactly what I do every
     day.

     karen
     karen_otto -at- hp -dot- com

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