 This WILL improve your writing skills!  Revising and Editing Reread your written work multiple times and for multiple purposes…each time making additional and new revisions and edits.  This WILL improve your writing skills! 

S: spelling write out numbers, &, homophones, contractions S.C.R.A.P.  S: spelling write out numbers, &, homophones, contractions C: capitalization  names, places, months, I, titles R: replace  dead words  things, it, good, bad A: additions  (personifying) adverbs, adjectives, Specific Details, sensory imagery P: punctuation  varied sentence structure: AAAWUBBIS, FANBOYS, coordinate adjectives

Your Turn to Practice! Directions: Reread your essay, multiple times, each time for a different purpose. Your formative grade will be for the revisions and edits that you make to sample BORING paragraph. For this formative assessment, I will model the first paragraph, and you will take “notes.” Then, you will use your “Writer’s Notebook” and choose a paragraph to revise, using SCRAP.