This product was designed to review the different steps in the Five Step Writing Process (Brainstorm/Pre-Writing, Drafting, Revising, Editing, and Publishing). The flexible Montessori Sorting activity has instructions on how three different teachers have used the basic product in slightly different ways.

Basically, students sort out complex ideas into the five steps. There are twenty two ideas that students must classify.

Here are four examples:

1. Jared asks Patricia to review his topic and closing sentences for redundancy
2. Andrew completes a quick write assigned by the teacher
3. Ashantise changes the structure of some of her sentences to improve their clarity
4. Aubrey finds bland adjectives in her writing and uses a thesaurus to find precise vocabulary

The strips that students will sort include key ELA terms: Motif, MLA Format, Dictionary, Citations, Thesis, Outline, Conflict, Research (and many more!)

This product is a .doc file so that you can alter the text size, font, and student names if desired.

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