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Writing Process Checklist Guide

Help Maia prepare a short piece for a local community newsletter. Read her draft, then use the writing process to plan, revise and edit. There can be more than one good way to improve a piece—explain your choices.

Maia’s first draft

Our beach clean-up One weekend our group went to the beach. It was fun and we found heaps of rubbish. There was plastic near the rocks and a bag was stuck in a bush. We picked it up. The beach looked better. People should help because rubbish is bad. I liked being outside. Next time we could bring more gloves and tell more people to come.

1.Maia wants readers to join the next beach clean-up. Which planning choice would best help her shape her writing?

Decide that her purpose is to encourage people to take part, and list the key details readers need
Choose several difficult words before deciding what the piece is about
Write the conclusion first and avoid thinking about the audience

2.Write one useful question Maia could ask herself while planning this newsletter piece. It should help her decide what information readers need.

3.Maia is writing her first draft. What should she focus on most at this stage?

Getting her main ideas and important details down
Making every sentence perfect before writing the next one
Checking every comma and spelling choice before she has finished

4.Maia’s draft says the beach looked better, but it does not explain why readers should join. Add one sentence that gives a clear reason to help at the next clean-up.

5.Choose the best description of revising Maia’s draft.

Improving the ideas, order and clarity so the piece works better for its readers
Correcting spelling, punctuation and capital letters only
Rewriting every sentence with longer words

6.Maia’s draft moves from what happened, to a general message, then back to her feelings and next steps. Suggest a sensible order for these three ideas: what the group did; why people should help; how to join next time.

7.Edit this sentence from Maia’s draft by correcting the capital letter and punctuation: “last saturday our group went to the beach”

8.Maia writes, “we found heaps of rubbish”. Which replacement sounds more precise and suits a newsletter?

We collected several bags of rubbish
We found heaps and heaps and heaps of stuff
We found a thing

9.Join these ideas with a linking word or phrase that shows a result: “The group collected plastic near the rocks. The beach was safer and cleaner.”

10.Before Maia shares her final piece, name two different things she should check during proofreading.

11.Imagine you have finished a first draft of your own piece. Write one specific revision check you would do and explain how it could help your reader.