Guide
Name
Enhancing/Revising and Editing
Description
Enhancing/revising focuses on enhancing meaning according to audience and purpose, organization of the text, and language choice. Editing focuses on mechanics: grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Both processes are essential in the writing process and peer and teacher interactions are important features. Students enhance communications by conferencing to share, assess, revise, and edit their personal work according to developed criteria. Resources: Checklist for Assessing Components of an Essay blm/ela/7/essaycomponents SBLM Five Step Revising and Editing Checklist blm/ela/g/strategies228 SBLM Five Tips for Editing and Proofreading Support/ela/g/tips SI Peer Conference (Writing) Questions prev grade5p326 Ela/g/peerconfer SI TI SBLM Peer Assessment Response Sheet blm/ela/5/grade5p329b SBLM Peer Writing Assessment blm/ela/g/elablm30 SBLM Revision Checklist blm/ela/6/grade6p322 SBLM Revision Record blm/ela/g/elablm84 SBLM Spell Check Using Spellcheck, /ela/1/spellcheck.html Writing Process Self-Check blm/ela/5/grade5p329a SBLM
Purposes
- [Statement] In order to plan for instruction and assessment think about your learners' needs and your goal. What is your purpose for using Enhancing/Revising and Editing? To demonstrate ability to generate and organize ideas (Composing: Writing/Speaking/Representing- Cluster 4.1): Students participate in developing criteria for assessing the types of text they produce. [Cluster] Cluster 4.1- Composing: Writing /Speaking/ Representing - [Statement] To demonstrate understanding of enhancing and improving texts and representations for a particular audience (Composing: Writing/Speaking/Representing- Cluster 4.2.): Students participate in developing criteria to respond to own and others' work. [Cluster] Cluster 4.2- Composing: Writing/Speaking/Representing - [Statement] To demonstrate understanding of enhancing and improving texts and representations for a particular audience (Composing: Writing/Speaking/Representing- Cluster 4.2.): Students use pre-established organizing frames to prepare compositions, reports, and research/inquiry projects. [Cluster] Cluster 4.2- Composing: Writing/Speaking/Representing - [Statement] To demonstrate understanding of enhancing and improving texts and representations for a particular audience (Composing: Writing/Speaking/Representing- Cluster 4.2.): Students choose language, sounds, and images to enhance meaning. [Cluster] Cluster 4.2- Composing: Writing/Speaking/Representing - [Statement] To demonstrate understanding of revising and editing for purpose and audience (Composing: Writing/Speaking/Representing- Cluster 4.2.): Students revise for content, organization, and to eliminate unnecessary information [Cluster] Cluster 4.2- Composing: Writing/Speaking/Representing - [Statement] To demonstrate understanding of grammar, spelling, and punctuation (conventions) for purpose and audience (Composing: Writing/Speaking/Representing- Cluster 4.3): Students edit for the mechanics of English. Š 2007 Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth Created with Curriculum Navigator, - Page 1 -
Guide
[Cluster] Cluster 4.3- Composing: Writing/Speaking/Representing Specific Learning Outcomes LICT Descriptors How To Do
- 1. As a class, develop checklists or rubrics to establish criteria for specific compositions, reports, or inquiry projects. 2. In peer conferences, have students use specific checklists or rubrics to guide the revision process which includes: content, organization, language, and word choice. 3. Have students revise own work based on conference suggestions and the checklist/rubric. 4. In peer conferences, students use checklists or rubrics to guide the editing process which includes: grammar, spelling, and punctuation. 5. Have students edit own work based on conference suggestions and the checklist/rubric.
Related Information
All revising and editing strategies are enhanced when specific criteria are developed for each strategy and their uses demonstrated and practiced. Students need to know specifically to what they are responding when revising and editing. Criteria Setting link to file To encourage legible writing provide a variety of writing implements for students' experimentation. Have a message board where students are encouraged to leave quotes for the day written in their best handwriting or calligraphy. Provide a book of famous quotations as a resource for students. Set up an "Expert Student Centre" to help peers with their editing. Author's Chair Link to file Spelling link to file Vocabulary Link to file
Variations
Five Step Check link to file Peer Conferencing for Writing link to file Three Stars and a Wish
Assessment / Think Abouts
Conference with students to help them discover the connection between the two distinct steps in the composing process; revising and editing. Revising focuses on clarifying meaning and content which often leads to editing changes. Observe peer revising and editing conferences and coach students to be as specific as possible with their feedback.
References Keywords
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