Decide
What is your report going to be about?
Research
- Collect information - use books, web sites, videos, interview people
Organise
- Highlight keywords and important information
- Group common ideas eg. is, has, does, lives - colour code your notes and highlighting
- Make your own notes in your journal - not full sentences - just the main ideas and keywords
- Organise the notes as you go eg. is, has, does, lives - this will become separate paragraphs in your writing
Draft
- In your own words write clear sentence that explain what you have found out
- Reread as you go and check that what you have said makes sense
- Write sentences that join together with ideas that fit with each other
- Its important to use topic words that are special to your information
- Explain hard words to the reader
- Only use words that you understand
Edit
- Use COPS
- Capitals, Overall Sense, Punctuation, Spelling
- Number one - does it make sense?
- Read out loud to yourself and check that your writing makes good sense
- Read out loud to a buddy and ask them to check that your writing makes good sense
- Adjust - change words to improve the meaning - change the order of your ideas
- Use less words to explain ideas clearly
Publish
- Be creative and inventive
- Use pictures and diagrams
- Make a video or an ebook
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