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The Writing Process

Lesson Plan and Suggested Activities for Years 3-6


Explore the writing process, including the stages: planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing, with
your students, using the following suggested activities and lesson ideas.

These activities can be used to support writing lessons on any text type, and as such, have been designed to
be flexible and adaptable to your needs.

Learning Intention: We are learning to understand, identify, and implement the writing process when creating
written texts.

Success Criteria: I can identify and follow the steps of the writing process to create my own written texts.

Lesson - Introducing and Understanding The Writing Process

Resources:
• The Writing Process PowerPoint
• The Writing Process Analysis Chart

Whole Group Task and Introduction: Prompt students to share their previous writing experiences.
Ask them to describe what steps they followed or strategies they used.
What worked well? What was difficult?

As a whole class, work through the The Writing Process PowerPoint, discussing each step in the
process as it is outlined in the slide.

Independent Task: After viewing the PowerPoint, introduce the The Writing Process Analysis
Chart and have students fill in each section, analysing and explaining the writing process.

Whole Group Reflection: Come back to the floor as a whole group to discuss, share and compare
what students have added to the analysis chart. Where necessary, you might like to go back and
review some parts of the PowerPoint lesson too.

Following The Writing Process


The following series of activities can be taught over the course of a week or combined into a few lessons,
depending on the needs of your students. These activities will allow students to implement their knowledge
of the writing process and to put it into action for themselves.

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Activity 1 - Planning

Resources:
• Blank Mind Maps
• Graphic Organiser Flow Chart
• Graphic Organiser Five Ws
• Graphic Organiser Fact Wheel
• Story Mapping Boxes Worksheet
• Photo Provocation Cards

Students work independently on planning and brainstorming their own writing pieces. Encourage
students to consider the purpose and goals for their writing and to use a graphic organiser to
assist them in connecting ideas and designing a coherent structure for their writing piece.

**Each of the graphic organisers included in this pack will support a different style of text,
please choose whichever will best suit the text type that you and your students are working on.
In addition, optional writing prompt images have been included to use as a provocation and to help
students brainstorm ideas.

Activity 2 - Drafting

Resources:
• Lined Paper with Margin

To begin this activity, model the drafting process on the board. Make mistakes as you write and
show students that you need to just keep writing so that you don't lose your focus or ideas.
Leave the modeled writing unedited so that you can do this together later on.

Before students begin their own writing, prompt them to read over their plan and tell them to skip
lines as they write so that they will have room to revise and edit later on.

Remember to encourage students to just write and not worry so much about spelling or using
correct punctuation and grammar. Those things can be fixed up later. This stage is for getting
words onto paper and ideas flowing.

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Activity 3 - Revising and Editing

Resources:
• Editing and Proofreading Checklists Year 5/6
• Editing and Proofreading Checklists Year 3/4

** These resources include both the checklist and peer feedback form.

Revisit your modeled text together with the students and show them the revising and editing
process. Read the text out loud to help identify anything that does not make sense or maybe just
doesn't sound quite right.

Refer to the Editing and Proofreading Checklists and ensure that spelling and punctuation are
correct while also looking to improve the text by adding descriptive words and phrases.

After modelling this with the students, prompt them to go off and do the same process
independently. Provide students each with their own Editing and Proofreading Checklist
to refer to.

Next, supply each student with a Peer Feedback reflection sheet and allow students to swap
texts for peer feedback. Encourage students to take this step very seriously, perhaps prompting
them to imagine that they are the teacher or an editor. Remind students that they should not only
give advice on how to improve their peer’s writing, but they should also let them know what parts
are great. Perhaps they could use the “two stars and a wish” strategy to help with this.

Activity 4 - Publishing

Resources:
• Lined Paper with Margin

In this stage, students will re-write their text implementing the changes and suggestions made
during the previous stage.

Students will need to write their final copies neatly and with correct spelling, punctuation, and
grammar. Check that students are sitting at a desk or table and using proper handwriting posture
to help optimise their published piece.

Alternatively, if it is to be a typed copy, it should still be neat and use correct spelling,
punctuation, and grammar, as well as be free from any typos.

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