University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin Madison: Writing Center: Editing Checklist
This twelve-item checklist is linked to short explanations that include an example of the error, followed by revisions. W.9-10.5 Writing Process
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Writing an Autobiography Using Pictures
This is a 4-day lesson plan on how to write an autobiography. Students also learn to take digital pictures of themselves and use them in their writing.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Collaborative Prewriting and Drafting
A very useful lesson that incorporates the process of collaboration to elementary students. Students brainstorm and use prewriting strategies to write a group story.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Post It Writing Process
Based on Northern Nevada's 6-traits of writing, teachers can use a post-it note as a template for students to check their work throughout the writing process. Links to the 6-traits are included.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Write It: Memoir
Write It Memoir offers a complete writing workshop to develop your personal story. Search your memory through the brainstorming activities to launch your piece. Draft a map of the memories along with reading other models. As the process...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Taking the Mystery Out of Writing a Mystery
This mystery-writing activity focuses on the structure of a short story and the elements of a mystery in particular. Students complete the entire writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing. Students...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Writing Thank You Notes
This lesson teaches students to write thank-you note using the writing process. Students will draft, revise, edit, and publish their thank-you notes. They will use a computer to view examples of thank-you notes and insert graphics into...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Literature Course Overview
This lesson focuses on providing an overview of contemporary literature and the writing process. It defines contemporary literature and the key terms of the writing process, and provides links to the Contemporary Literature and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Global Editing
This lesson introduces the concept of global editing. Students learn to edit for big picture ideas like organization, strategy, and effectiveness. W.9-10.5 Writing Process, W.11-12.5 Writing Process
W. W. Norton
W.w. Norton&company:the Writing Process: Conventions That Can Cause Problems
Click through lessons on conventions that can cause problems in an essay including tenses, titles, and names. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.1
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Writing Process Intro
[Free Registration/Login Required] Subtitled, You are what you eat, this flipchart correlates the steps in the writing process to the steps involved in baking a cake emphasizing the importance of not leaving anything out. You may even...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Powers of Writing
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource outlines and defines the POWERS model for good writing.
University of Sydney (Australia)
University of Sydney: Module 3 Unit 1: Planning Your Essay
This unit index contains links with to guide students through the process of planning a multi-paragraph argumentative essay. Students will learn how to interpret the essay question, develop a writing plan, thesis, writing the argument,...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Real Survival Skills
Learn about process analysis, writing procedurals texts, the steps of the writing process, and cause and effect in this unit. Also, examine patterns of organization in writing. A handy chart shows common organizational patterns which...
Other
Science Fiction Writer: Robert J. Sawyer: "On Writing": Word Processing Tricks
Science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer shares his word processing tricks and tools for proofreading and editing a manuscript. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.6 Use technology to produce and publish writing
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Pre Printing Check
A list of items to check before printing a final copy.