With all of our Writing Powers Combined, we are Super Writers!

This year in first grade, we are taking writing to a whole new level and really expecting the students to push themselves farther and produce meaningful and quality writing. This week in Writer's Workshop, we learned the "Super Steps" to creating a published piece of writing. The students learned and practiced first hand that this process doesn't just happen during one session of Writer's Workshop, but over MANY sessions of Writer's Workshop. Here are the "Super Steps" our heros learned and worked on:

1. Prewriting: thinking of a topic and details to go with it
2. Rough Draft: writing our ideas out on paper
3. Revising: rereading our work and/or conferencing with a teacher or peer to see what needs to be fixed
4. Editing: "fixing up" the writing by changing and fixing mistakes, such as, misspelled words, left out words, adding or chaning punctuation, etc.
5. Publishing: making a new copy of our rough draft with illustrations and a cover page

Our heros chose one piece of writing that they wanted to publish. They will not publish every piece of writing in first grade, rather, we taught them to choose their very best or favorite piece of writing to publish. Ask your hero what their published piece of writing is about!