1. By: Mr. Love
3rd
Grade Teacher

2.  As a good writer, you want to
make sure that everything you
write is well organized, full of
great detail and ideas, that your
personal voice is heard and that
you have great spelling and
punctuation. (Culham, 2003)

3. Good writers use the Writing
Process to make sure that all
of those things show up in
everything they write.
(Lipkewich, 1999)

4.  With the Writing Process, you will go through
the following steps every time you write:
Prewriting
Writing
Revising
Editing
Publishing
 This presentation will teach you about each
of these very important steps. (Lipkewich,
1999)

5.  This part of the Writing Process is done
before you start telling your story.
 To write a great story, first you have to come
up with a great “Seed” idea (an idea that we
need to nurture to make it grow into a story)
and start to organize how you write about
that idea. (Biondo, 2002)

6.  In our class, we do several activities to help
us come up with a “Seed” idea. (Biondo,
2002)
 Dig Up Buried Stories
 Make an Authority List
 Create a Memory Box
 Read Informational Text and Respond
 Decide What’s Interesting to Us

7.  Once we choose our topic, we begin to plan
out what we want to include in our story and
how we want to organize our writing.
 This step is very important because it helps
us think about the things we want to say
before we write it all out. (Fletcher, 2004)

8.  To organize our thoughts before we write, we
can use graphic organizers. (Fletcher, 2004)
 Here are a few we’ll talk about and use in class:
Beginning
Middle
End
A C B

9.  This is the step in the Writing Process
where we write down our story for the
first time.
 It doesn’t have to be perfect this
time, so we call this our “Sloppy
Copy”. We will use other parts of the
writing process to fix any mistakes and
make our writing sound better.

10.  When we begin to write our stories we make
sure we include all of the following things.
 Five Finger Detail (Biondo, 2002)
Character Description
Character Action
Setting
Thought Shots
Dialogue
 Important Things we talk about in class.
 Skip Lines

11.  This is your chance to make your “Sloppy
Copy” sound better.
 To revise we re-read the story (by yourself or
with a partner), think about what you’re
reading and make changes. (Biondo, 2002)
Read – Think - ChangeRead – Think - Change

12.  During this part of the Writing Process, we
use a Revising checklist to make sure we’ve
really checked to make sure our writing
sounds great! (Biondo, 2002)
ARMS
 A -Add
 R - Remove
 M – Move
 S – Substitute
Show, Don’t Tell
Using Precise Nouns and Exciting Verbs

13.  In this step of the Writing Process, we make
sure that our writing looks perfect.
 By yourself or with a partner, you re-read
your story and look for any mistakes you’ve
made in spelling, capitalization, punctuation
or words you’ve used. (Fletcher, 2004)
The schol bus was runing
lat.

14.  When we edit our story, we remember the
acronym “CUPS” (Biondo, 2002)
 “CUPS” stands for:
 C – Capitalization (Capital letters at the
beginning of sentences and on names)
 U – Usage (Make sure you use the right words and
the correct homophones)
 P – Punctuation (Use the correct punctuation
marks in your sentences (. , ! ? “”))
 S – Spelling (Use your spelling dictionary to make
sure your words a spelled correctly.)

15.  Now that you have worked so hard on
nuturing your “Seed” idea and helping it
grow into a story, it’s time to Publish.
 When we publish, we make sure to use our
best handwriting, include any changes we’ve
made and present our writing in a way that
others will really want to read. (Biondo,
2002)

16.  Here are some ideas for how to Publish your
story. (Fletcher, 2004)
Type your story.
Use an ink pen.
Draw a cover with the Title of your story
and your name.
Include pictures.

17. Using the Writing Process
this year in 3rd
grade will
help make us better
writers!

18.  ABC’s of the Writing Process - A.E.
Lipkewich and R. Mazurenko, 1999
http://www.angelfire.com/wi/writingprocess/
 6+1 Traits of Writing – Ruth Culham, 2003
 Teaching the Qualities of Writing by Ralph
Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi, Firsthand
Publishing, 2004
 Writer’s Notebook Launch – Sandra Biondo,
2002