The Writing Process

The writing process is very complex.  The students in room 4 are learning about explanation writing.  Obviously this writing explains something.  

Mrs Hutcheson, a Candidate Teacher who is teaching in room 4, used a science based experiment involving balloons as a topic for explanation writing.  Here are photos showing some of the steps involved.

After a brief discussion about the balloon experiment, students worked in groups to write a hypothesis (a guess) about what they thought would happen.  They discussed the what, how and why of the experiment also.

Lots of discussion helps the students to draw on their prior knowledge and share ideas.

Time to come back to class to share ideas.

This is a list of keywords from the students about the topic.
This list supports the children when they write.

Here is Lily's example of predicting what she thinks will happen.

The balloons are ready…  The rules are explained by Mrs Hutcheson …

The yellow balloon had another balloon inside it that was filled with water.  We talked about how it felt and sounded.   The balloon acted in a strange way.  

We wrote down our ideas to help us in our writing later.

We threw the balloon and really tested it.  It proved difficult to pop!

Alice tries her bowling skills on the balloon.  It remains intact.

The experiment has ended.  We are allowed to burst the balloon.
This pink balloon was very stubborn.

We are back inside now and sharing ideas about what we found.
We add this information in our writing book.

Mrs Hutcheson shares some examples of great work.  Well done Rubi for drawing a diagram to record and explain your thinking.  Well done Lily for using bullet points to list her ideas and experience.

We had 5 minutes by ourselves at the end to add any more information or details about what we found.

Mrs Hutcheson and Mrs Smith are looking forward to reading this writing soon.  

But first, we will plan our writing before we start.  Wow!  There are a lot of steps involved in writing!  It will take us approximately 3 days of preparation before we get to the actual explanation writing.