Writing Process

Are any of you familiar with this movie? Give me a quiet hand signal if so

This movie was a work in progress for about 70 years The song “Let it go” has been recorded in 40 languages Elsa was originally a villain The soundtrack has sold more than 1 million albums Frozen is the highest grossing animated film of all time. It was Disney’s first billion dollar movie DVD is Amazon’s best selling children's film of all time This movie was a work in progress for about 70 years

How many of you are aware that a movie starts out as a story written down 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:

The Writing Process

So, 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

Pre-writing is a warm-up stage, where writers prepare to write. Step 1: Prewrite Pre-writing is a warm-up stage, where writers prepare to write. Begin with a Thinking map or graphic organizer, decide on a purpose, audience, format and tone. *Develop whole group circle map on snow

OR we can use technology!!!

Add your own padlet.com address Think about words/phrases that remind you of snow. Log into padlet. Double click anywhere on the screen. Type your name. Add your own padlet.com address

snow snowman fireplace winter boots cold gloves icy snowball fight hot chocolate winter snow boots cold gloves icy snowball fight sled bundled up

Step 2: Draft Drafting is when you actually put words on your paper. Return to Padlet. Have students write 2 sentences from their own brainstorm. Remind them: Don’t worry about spelling or grammar just get your ideas down. Write on every other line and only on 1 side of the paper. Write out the details with concern for the ideas. You will make improvements later

Snow is cold and icy. I like to put on my boots and gloves and build a snowman.

Step 3: Revise Re-read your original draft and make it better. Work with a partner, pay attention to vocabulary, content and organization. Revise details that you need to change, move, add and remove. The writers of Frozen didn’t use their 1st draft, even the title was changed from The Ice Queen to Frozen

*4th grade text book

Snow is cold and icy. I like to put on my boots and gloves and build a snowman. Revise together then students revise their own sentences. “Cold, icy snow is perfect for building a snowman with a friend. Make sure you bundle up with your boots, gloves and a warm, winter coat.” What did I do? Reorganized my ideas so that it made more sense, I added more info from my map, I added adjectives to make it more interesting. Return to Padlet. Revise your own sentences. Improve

Step 4: Edit Check your work for: spelling capitalization grammar punctuation sentence structure 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

Cold, icy snow is perfect for building a snowman with a freind Cold, icy snow is perfect for building a snowman with a freind. make sure you bundel up with you’re boots gloves, and a warm, winter coat

Cold, icy snow is perfect for building a snowman with a freind Cold, icy snow is perfect for building a snowman with a freind. make sure you bundel up with you’re boots gloves, and a warm, winter coat your

Cold, icy snow is perfect for building a snowman with a friend Cold, icy snow is perfect for building a snowman with a friend. Make sure you bundle up with your boots, gloves, and a warm, winter coat. Back to Padlet Check your work on padlet. Edit any errors.

Step 5: Publish How many times have you found a mistake in a book you have read, not very often! Should be free of spelling and grammatical errors. Should be perfect or as close to perfect as you can make it.

One last thought… 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!