1. Partners
Writing Process

2. Are you familiar with this movie?
Give me a quiet hand signal if so
Are you familiar with this movie?

3. This movie was a work in progress for about 70 years
The DVD is Amazon’s best selling children's film of all time
FROZEN FACTS
Elsa was originally a villain
This movie was a work in progress for about 70 years

4. Did you know that a movie starts as a story written on paper?
Every writer of every story you read or movie you go to or TV show you watch or even video game you play uses a special process when they are creating your favorite shows, movies, or games called:
Every story, book, song, movie, tv show, video game
went through the…

5. The
Writing Process

6. What is the writing process?
Prewrite
Draft
Revise
Go over names of 5 steps
Prewrite=Olaf, Draft=Sven, Revise=Anna, Edit=Kristoff, Publish=Elsa
Edit
Publish

7. where writers prepare to write.
Step 1: Prewrite
TAP
Task
Audience
Purpose
Pre-writing is a
warm-up stage,
where writers prepare to write.
Think of TAP- (Journeys Writing Handbook)
task (are you writing a story, directions, report, poem)
audience (who am I writing for)
purpose (why am I writing) (TAP)
Then think about what graphic organizer or thinking map you should use

8. Think about words/phrases that remind you of snow.
FIRST GRADE
Coach will lead discussion on: Brainstorm in pairs then share whole group and add to defining map at WFTB school take it to a tree map.
What do you notice about how students are interacting?

9. snow
For first grade make defining map on a chart.

10. Snow is can make happens
First GRADE-make a tree map on chart paper (using as a sort from tree map)

11. Writing a draft is when you put words on your paper.
Step 2: Draft
Writing a draft is when you put words on your paper.
First Grade: Look at the ideas in your maps and write your ideas into sentences.
With your partner look at the tree map and share a sentence. Share whole group 3-4 sentences and then add at least 2 sentences to the bottom of your of the class tree map.

12. Write 2-3 with students from tree map.
Make mistakes in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation

13. When you revise you change your writing to make it better.
Step 3: Revise
When you revise you change your writing to make it better.
The writers of Frozen didn’t use their 1st draft, even the title was changed from The Ice Queen to Frozen
The writers of frozen didn’t use their 1st draft.
They even changed the title from The Ice Queen to Frozen!

14. Revising is when you fix what it sounds like.
First Grade
Let’s look at our sentences…can we make them sound better. Add adjectives….what kind of gloves?

15. Check work for: spelling capitalization punctuation Step 4: Edit
1st and 2nd
Sometimes its good to have another set of eyes look at your work
Get in the habit of reading and re-reading your work over and over again because you can always make it better

16. Step 5: Publish
When you publish your writing you share it you make it look as good as you can. Make a clean copy where there is no mistakes.

17. Just think…
Every writer working on Frozen was a kid who sat in a desk, just like you are right now.
They also struggled with writing, just like you. But look where they are now!
Follow in their foot steps, use The Writing Process, and you too might be creating your own movie some day!