Choose Different Words: A Simple Writing Strategy {Week 7}

So far, in this Simple Writing Lesson Series, The Measured Mom and I have covered some pre-writing strategies {also known as brainstorming} and a few writing strategies. Today, we’re moving on to revision!

Let me just stop and say that not every piece that a child writes will make it to this stage. Let’s say you spend a few weeks on writing fiction stories, like we did in this simple lesson. Once the child has written his story draft, he may not like his story or feel a particular connection with the piece and decide he wants to start a new one. This is the freedom of choice he has an author. {I do this with pieces quite often myself and I’m sure other “real” authors do, too.} After a few weeks, he may have three to five stories, maybe more, that he has written in their rough draft stage.  Now, it’s time for him to pick the one story he wants to take further. It’s time to revise.

Revision can be quite an abstract concept for younger writers because it deals more with organization and ideas versus spelling and punctuation. At its core, revision is changing the writing in one or more of these ways:

• sentence structure
• organization
• word choice
• addition of text
• subtraction of text

And today, Anna of The Measured Mom is exploring word choice: building vocabulary by putting those boring words in jail! Hop on over to read!

This is the seventh lesson in a 12-part series for Primary Grades.  Click HERE or the image below to view more simple writing lessons.

~Becky