Since students have so many different learning styles, it is a good idea to model a variety of Pre-Writing techniques from which students may choose. Drafting During drafting, students create a rough draft of their writing. They use their ideas from pre-writing in creating the draft. Revising Revising is making changes to written work to make it better. Revising is polishing a piece of writing to make it better for the reader.
First graders are particularly resistent to changing their writing.
For them, revision, takes the form of adding a word or sentence to further explain something. When you teach children to revise, it is important to make it worth their time. Read books, articles, and letters from various authors which describe how they revise. Have a standard requirement of a number of revisions that students must make. For example, beginning level writers could be required to make between one and three revisions, while a developing level writer would need to have five.