Writing Stages

What is the first thing your student should do when starting the writing process?

• Brainstorm about the topic

• Revise the draft

• Edit the draft

• Create a draft

True or false? It is important to keep the purpose and audience in mind while drafting the assignment.

• True

• False

Brainstorming helps to stimulate __________, make plans, and create desire to write.

• Questions

• Answers

• Problems

• Thinking

Revising is supposed to be ____________.

• Clean

• Easy

• Messy

• Funny

Which shouldn't a teacher do during revising?

• Praise the writer

• Make suggestions

• Listen to the writer

• Make changes without the writer

The final step in the writing process is ___________.

• Brainstorming

• Publishing

• Editing

• Drafting

True or false? Editing is supposed to polish and clean up the writing piece.

• True

• False

Which answer is not a step in the writing process?

• Completing

• Drafting

• Revising

• Publishing

Publishing is not fun.

• True

• False

Drafting occurs after brainstorming, planning, and discovering a topic.

• True

• False