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Writing Process Steps

Nikau, Tui and Georgia are preparing a short story about a dance competition. Help them use the writing process to plan, draft, improve, check and share their story. Read each question carefully. For writing tasks, there can be many good answers; example answers are provided for checking.

Know the steps

Writers often move through five steps: prewrite, draft, revise, edit and publish. Prewriting is for gathering and organising ideas. A draft is a first version. Revising means improving ideas and making the writing clearer. Editing means checking spelling, punctuation and grammar. Publishing means preparing the finished work to share.

1.Nikau is listing possible story ideas before writing. Which writing-process step is he using?

Prewrite
Draft
Edit
Publish

2.Put these five steps in the order a writer usually uses: edit, prewrite, publish, revise, draft.

3.Tui has written a first version of her story. She wants to add a detail showing how nervous Georgia feels before the dance. Which step should Tui use, and what could she add?

4.Georgia checks her story for misspelled words, capital letters and full stops. Which step is she doing?

Prewrite
Draft
Revise
Edit

5.True or false: A writer must get every sentence perfect in the first draft.

TrueFalse

Try the process

Use this story challenge: During a dance competition, the music stops just before the final move. What happens next? Plan a short story, write a beginning, and think about how to improve it.

6.PREWRITE: Jot down three ideas for what could happen when the music stops. You might think about the dancers, the audience or how the problem is solved.

7.Choose one idea from your plan and write two or three sentences for the beginning of your first draft. Introduce a dancer and show where the story is happening.

8.Improve this draft sentence by adding a detail that helps the reader picture the scene: “The music stopped.”

9.Edit this sentence by correcting the capital letter and punctuation: “tui smiled when the dancers finished”

10.The story is ready to share. Name one way Nikau could publish it and explain what he would do.

11.Why might a writer return to the revising step after editing a story?

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