Grades(s) 4
Subjects(s) Language Arts

The students will understand the writing process through a drawing activity.

1. Scratch paper
2. Pencils
3. Erasers
4. Drawing paper for their published assignment

1. Give each student a piece of scratch paper and have them draw anything they want that is school appropriate. This is the Brainstorming. Or pre-writing.

2. Give them another sheet of scratch paper and have them choose one item from the pre-write and draw it again making sure it covers the entire sheet. This is the DRAFT.

3. Then tell them to do something to it to make it better. This is REVISING. I called it PLUMP IT UP.
(I use this to show them that their first draft is not perfect and needs to be made better.

4. Then I tell them to add something or erase something from the drawing because everything must be necessary. This is the editing part.
Then I give them the ART paper and have them draw the piece again the absolute best they can. It needs to fill the paper. They can color it now if they want to. This is the publishing.

Then we display the art and we talk about all the components. Every good writer, artist, creator goes through all of these steps to make the best published piece possible.