ICLA 4
Why is writing important? - answer Helps students organize
■Extends and deepens information, ideas and insight gained from reading
■Vehicle for informing, persuading, and inspiring others
Research shows that writers need: - answer Time to write
■Choices
■Feedback\response
■Models of fine writing
What is the writing process? - answer A way of looking at writing instruction that shifts
the emphasis from the finished product to what writers think and do as they write
What are the steps of the writing process? - answer prewriting, drafting, revising,
editing, publishing
Prewriting - answer Organizing thoughts, choosing a topic, thinking of the audience,
identifying purpose, choosing genre
Drafting - answerWriting the rough draft, Stamina and volume and important here, not
mechanics
Revising - answerEmphasis on refining or clarifying, making changes
Editing - answerTo make writing easier to read, fixing punctuation and grammar errors
Publishing - answerFinal form of written piece that is ready to share with an audience
(read to class, share with family, send to someone)
Rescue readers - answerReading (own written piece) to animals that are waiting to be
adopted. Audience is non judgmental
Narrative vs. expository - answerNarrative tells a story while expository is informational
5 main types of writing - answernarrative, expository, descriptive, persuasive, creative
What is a writers workshop? - answerA organizational structure for allowing the writing
process to happen in the classroom setting.
It replicates the practices of professional writers as they take a piece of writing from
conception to publication.
Why is writing important? - answer Helps students organize
■Extends and deepens information, ideas and insight gained from reading
■Vehicle for informing, persuading, and inspiring others
Research shows that writers need: - answer Time to write
■Choices
■Feedback\response
■Models of fine writing
What is the writing process? - answer A way of looking at writing instruction that shifts
the emphasis from the finished product to what writers think and do as they write
What are the steps of the writing process? - answer prewriting, drafting, revising,
editing, publishing
Prewriting - answer Organizing thoughts, choosing a topic, thinking of the audience,
identifying purpose, choosing genre
Drafting - answerWriting the rough draft, Stamina and volume and important here, not
mechanics
Revising - answerEmphasis on refining or clarifying, making changes
Editing - answerTo make writing easier to read, fixing punctuation and grammar errors
Publishing - answerFinal form of written piece that is ready to share with an audience
(read to class, share with family, send to someone)
Rescue readers - answerReading (own written piece) to animals that are waiting to be
adopted. Audience is non judgmental
Narrative vs. expository - answerNarrative tells a story while expository is informational
5 main types of writing - answernarrative, expository, descriptive, persuasive, creative
What is a writers workshop? - answerA organizational structure for allowing the writing
process to happen in the classroom setting.
It replicates the practices of professional writers as they take a piece of writing from
conception to publication.
