Why Use Process Writing Lessons
Lessons on process writing cover a variety of text types and teach the structure, elements, and purpose of each.
Lessons follow the five steps of the writing process: prewrite, draft, revise, edit, and publish.
Each writing lesson also includes differentiated resources written to four developmental writing stages
to meet every student at his or her individual writing stage.
Process writing helps beginning to fluent writers develop their writing from a simple
collection of sentences to complex writing compositions that entertain, inform, explain,
persuade, or argue.
How to Use Process Writing Lessons
Process Writing Lessons provide the tools that teachers and students need to complete the
writing process from beginning to end for a variety of text types. Simply download a
lesson and use either the related printable or projectable samples or graphic organizers
for whole class or independent practice.
Lesson plans for teaching writing take students through the five steps of the writing
process and provide expectations at each step for the four developmental writing stages.
The Experience It activity at the beginning of each lesson establishes a common
experience for initial exploration of the genre text type and activates prior knowledge.
It also creates an authentic context for a class draft with students.
At the end of each lesson, there is a rubric to score a published piece of writing.
Review of the rubric allows students to reflect on their writing and apply what they
learn to the next piece of writing.
All text type lessons include resources to support you and students throughout the process:
- Lesson plan
- Graphic organizer sample
- Writing sample
- Graphic organizer
- Revision checklist
- Classroom poster
- Rubric
For additional practice after some text type lessons, have students use the digital
process writing tools that take them through the steps of the writing process online.
Have students submit their digital compositions to your In Basket for review and to
score so that you can easily track writing progress.
