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Writing your rough Draft

Writing your rough Draft. Step 1: Prewriting. Come up with a plan for your writing. Think of ideas to write about. What will your topic be?. Step 1: Prewriting. Use a graphic organizer or thinking map to organize your ideas. Step 2: Drafting.

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Writing your rough Draft

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  1. Writing your rough Draft

  2. Step 1: Prewriting • Come up with a plan for your writing. • Think of ideas to write about. • What will your topic be?

  3. Step 1: Prewriting Use a graphic organizer or thinking map to organize your ideas.

  4. Step 2: Drafting • Drafting means to turn your prewriting into complete sentences.

  5. Step 2: Drafting Writing a rough draft means to get all your ideas down in sentence form. “Rough” means it can be a little sloppy; that’s okay! You will fix the mistakes later.

  6. Step 2: Drafting In my opinion, pizza is the best food. I agree with the author of the first passage, Prize Pizza, for many reasons. First of all, pizza is great because I like the crunchy edges and salty taste of pepperoni. A second reason I love pizza is because the cheese is gooey and delicious. Finally, pizza is my favorite because the crust is buttery and fluffy. As you can see, pizza is my absolute favorite food! What’s yours?` Introduction Conclusion

  7. Rough Draft Watch your teacher model how to transfer her Tree Map information onto a Rough Draft!

  8. Step 3: Revising • Revising means to add or change things to your writing to make it better.

  9. Step 3: Revising • To make a story better, ask yourself: • Do I have any “dead”, boring words that I can change to a lively, more descriptive word? Can I look up a boring word in a thesaurus and find a better word? • Can I add more details? • Can I add any adjectives (describing words)? • Is there anything in my story that doesn’t belong that I feel like I need to get rid of, or anything that doesn’t make sense?

  10. Revising Pizza is my favorite food, and here are 3 reasons why. First of all, pizza is great because I like the crunchy edges and salty taste of pepperoni. A second reason I love pizza is because the cheese is gooey and delicious. Finally, pizza is my favorite because the crust is buttery and fluffy. Pizza is my absolute favorite food! What’s yours? fabulous brown 1. Change dead words to lively words 2. Add details 3. Add adjectives 4. Check if everything belongs and makes sense I like the way the cheese stretches from the pizza to my mouth!

  11. Now let’s revise our rough draft to make it better! Revising • 1. Change dead words to lively words • 2. Add details • 3. Add adjectives • 4. Check if everything belongs and makes sense

  12. Step 4: Editing • Editing means to fix your mistakes and make your paper correct.

  13. Step 4: Editing • When we edit, we fix our mistakes. • Check your paper for… • Capitals in the beginning of each sentence • Capitals for proper nouns (names) • Periods (.) exclamation points (!) or question marks (?) at the end of every sentence • Spelling • Word usage: Are you using the right words?

  14. Editing pizza is me favorite food, and here are 3 reasons why. First of all, pizza is great because I like the crunchy edges and salty taste of pepperoni a second reason I love pizza iz because the cheese is gooey and delicious. finally, pizza is my favorite because the crust is buttery and fluffy. Pizza are my absolute favorite food What’s yours? fabulous brown Check your… Capitals Punctuation Spelling Usage (are you using the right words?) I like the way the cheese stretches from the pizza to my mouth! is

  15. Now let’s edit our rough draft to make it correct! Editing • Check your… • Capitals • Punctuation • Spelling • Usage (are you using the right words?)

  16. Step 5: Publishing • Publishing means to make your final draft (your nice, neat copy).

  17. Step 5: Publishing • When you write a final draft, you copy your rough draft onto a new paper. • Everything that you added or fixed on your rough draft, make sure it also gets added or fixed on your final draft! • Final drafts are perfect, neat copies!

  18. Rough Draft Final Draft pizza is me favorite food, and here are 3 reasons why. First of all, pizza is great because I like the crunchy edges and salty taste of pepperoni a second reason I love pizza iz because the cheese is gooey and delicious. finally, pizza is my favorite because the crust is buttery and fluffy. Pizza are my absolute favorite food What’s yours? Pizza is my favorite food, and here are 3 reasons why. First of all, pizza is fabulous because I like the crunchy brown edges and salty taste of pepperoni. A second reason I love pizza is because the cheese is gooey and delicious. I like the way the cheese stretches from the pizza to my mouth! Finally, pizza is my favorite because the crust is buttery and fluffy. Pizza is my absolute favorite food. What’s yours? fabulous brown I like the way the cheese stretches from the pizza to my mouth! is

  19. Can you name the steps of the writing process, in order? • 1. Prewriting (Brainstorming) • 2. Drafting • 3. Revising • 4. Editing • 5. Publishing

  20. You completed the Writing Process!

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