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Writing Process Stages

Ngaio, Sione and Hemi are creating a short story for their pizza shop’s story night. Help them move their story through the writing process: planning, drafting, revising, editing and publishing. Read each question carefully and use the clues in the story.

The story so far

Ngaio plans a story about a runaway pizza delivery scooter. Her notes say: rainy evening; scooter rolls away; Sione follows it; it stops beside a busker; everyone shares a pizza. Sione writes a first draft. Hemi reads it and says, “I don’t understand why the scooter rolled away. Add a clue, and make the ending more surprising.” Ngaio adds a loose strap that catches the scooter’s handle, then changes the ending so the busker turns out to be the hungry delivery customer. Finally, the group checks spelling, punctuation and grammar, makes a neat copy, and reads it aloud at story night.

Follow the story’s journey

Answer each question. The five stages are planning, drafting, revising, editing and publishing.

1.Put these stages in the order they usually happen: editing, planning, publishing, revising, drafting.

2.Ngaio jots down “rainy evening”, “runaway scooter” and “busker” before writing sentences. Which stage is she working in?

Prewriting
Drafting
Editing
Publishing

3.Sione writes the events as a first version, without stopping to make every sentence perfect. Which stage is this?

Prewriting
Drafting
Revising
Publishing

4.Hemi says the reason the scooter moved is unclear. Ngaio adds the loose-strap clue. Is this revising or editing? Explain what she is improving.

5.Match each action to the stage it best fits: A. correct a misspelt word; B. brainstorm possible endings; C. move a sentence so events make sense; D. share a neat copy at story night.

A. Correct a misspelt word
B. Brainstorm possible endings
C. Move a sentence so events make sense
D. Share a neat copy at story night

Prewriting
Publishing
Editing
Revising

6.True or false: Editing mainly changes the story’s ideas and order, while revising mainly fixes spelling and punctuation.

TrueFalse

7.Choose every activity that belongs in the planning stage: make a list of story ideas; check commas; sketch a plan of events; brainstorm a surprising ending.

Make a list of story ideas
Check commas
Sketch a plan of events
Brainstorm a surprising ending

8.The sentence in the draft reads, “the busker was hungryy and smiled.” Write it correctly. What stage is this correction part of?

9.Ngaio changes the original ending so the busker becomes the hungry customer. Why is this more likely revising than editing?

10.The group reads the finished story aloud at story night. Name the stage and give one other way they could share their writing.

11.Write one useful question Hemi could ask while revising the story, and one different question he could ask while editing it.

12.Ngaio says, “Once I have a first draft, the story is finished.” Do you agree? Explain how at least two later stages can make a draft stronger.

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