Highly skilled writers may be able to pre-write in their heads, or revise and proofread at the same time, but they do in fact use each of these stages. In Process Writing instruction, each stage is divided to help students see the different aspects to good writing. Students work at their own paces and levels to write. Creating class books is a good way to model the writing process. For students to become proficient writers, they need to write every day and receive instruction in process writing at least three days per week.
Many teachers use story maps, webs, or lists to help students organize their ideas.
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.