Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Process: Drafting
This lesson focuses on drafting including making an outline and writing a draft from it, the crappy first draft, writing, revising, rewriting, and time management. W.9-10.5 Writing Process
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina Writing Center Handouts: Reorganizing Drafts
One step you might want to take in revising a draft is to examine the organization of your paper and decide if and how the organization needs to be adjusted. This handout offers five strategies for examining and reorganizing your draft....
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Sorcerer's Binocular Revision
Take students through the revision process with this prompt and lesson.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Zooming in on a Prompt About Friendship
Take your students step by step through the revision process of with this prompt and guide.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Three Voice Important Book Passages
A lesson plan made for students to write from various perspectives regarding the same topic. The mentor text entitled The Important Book is used, as students become more familiar with voice, point of view, persuasive techniques and the...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Editing and Rewriting Process
This site examines all aspects of the rewriting process. Includes advice on how to use computers during the process, comments on peer editing, links to related topics, and an editing checklist.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Revision in Business Writing
Persuades the reader of the importance of revision, and outlines the process of good revision: language, tone, organization, and correctness.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Bizarre Foods With Ralph Fletcher: A Narrative Revision Lesson
In this lesson, Ralph Fletcher's writing style is introduced to student writers. Young scholars will write a rough draft about a time they ate, or a time when they saw someone else eat, something unusual. Then students will read and...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson
Based on Northern Nevada's 6-traits of writing, this lesson plan focuses on teaching learners how to revise a rough draft. Links to the 6-traits are included.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Focusing on Facial Expressions
Students will learn how to authentically revise their writing with this prompt and lesson plan.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Thinking About What Bugs You
Students will learn how to authentically revise their writing with this prompt and lesson.
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...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Exploring a More Specific Story
In this lesson, Ralph Fletcher's Marshfield Dreams is used as a mentor text. Students will write stories about an important friendship in their life. Then students will revise and attempt to make sure their writings have stayed on topic,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Taking the Mystery Out of Writing a Mystery
This mystery-writing lesson 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...
Harold D. Underdown
The Purple Crayon: The Writing & Publishing Process
Follow Amy Timberlake's steps as she tells about how she wrote the picture book "The Dirty Cowboy." She discusses ideas, drafts, revisions, and publication, and gives helpful hints to aspiring writers along the way.
British Library
British Library: 20th Century Teaching Resources: Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters
In these activities, students will consider Ted Hughes as a poet and a person, as well as some of the literary and personal influences on his writing. They will explore some of his poems in the draft and published form, exploring the...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Imitating a Newspaper's Voice With a Funny and Original Idea
In this creative lesson, young scholars will create a voice for a tabloid feature within a fairy-tale world.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Publishing Time
In this lesson, learners will experience different types of publishing in order to strengthen their motivation and cultivate pride in their work. After utilizing the writing process, students will type out their writing on a computer....
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Project Narration
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides graphic organizers for narrative writing. Students will be able to prewrite and draft their narrative writings more efficiently by using these tools.
British Library
British Library: 20th Century Teaching Resources: Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway
In these activities, learners will use manuscript drafts, notebooks, and essays to study Woolf's experimentation with form and use of language during the lengthy process of composition. They will also consider the work in the context of...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Iste Nets: Birthstone Project With a Multimedia Twist
This interdisciplinary project on birthstones, provided by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), focuses on research skills, writing skills, and the ability to put together an electronic presentation.