literacy: The Writing Cycle

1. Prewriting (collecting/planning): generating ideas
   
2. drafting: 'getting it down'
   
3. revising: 'making it work'
   
4. editing: 'getting it right'
   
5. publishing: taking it public

Collecting Strategies:

• Create Lists: rules to live by, that's not fair, times that I needed courage, the best day ever, if I had three wishes, if I could talk to ... etc.
• Use list to make another list with see, hear, smell, taste, feel from one topic
• Borrowings and jumpoffs: everyone will start from one idea, can use a book, quote, song, art, etc.
• Punctum: take a foudn line and use a found picture, then write a scene. Use magazine cut outs and poems.
• Mindmapping
• Keep a 'thinks I love' heart handout where kids write out topics that they love. Kids can then go back to the topics if they have nothing to write about.
• Buddy journals: students choose a fake role, one person writes about something wanted, then the other writes why they can't have it (in character)