Tips and Tricks to Promote Revising and Editing

What's the Difference???!!!

Revising vs. Editing Editing Revising Deals with spelling, grammar, punctuation, or word choice Looking for mistakes and fixes them Can be one sided Making it look better Improving clarity, choosing more descriptive words, adding more details etc.  Considers strengths and weaknesses  Promotes discussion  Making it sounds better

Strategies for Editing Use different color highlighters to represent different changes that needs to be made Example: Orange = need a capital letter Yellow = punctuation  Blue = spelling

Using An Editing Checklist Peer Editing  Self Editing  Allows students to review certain aspects of their writing at once. Allows the writer to give their selves feedback Promotes responsibility  Encourages collaboration Can be used to guide discussion Heightens awareness of grammatical errors

Examples of Various Checklist http://cdn.weareteachers.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/zaner-bloser-blog-three- peer-review-writingwheel.pdf https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/writing/editing- wheel_WDZMW.pdf?up=1466611200 https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/writing/writing- checklist_WDZMR.pdf?up=1468575735

Peer Editing  1. Students should edit by themselves and use an editing checklist 2. Students ask for a buddy editor 3. Have 2 students read their work at the end of each class and get feedback 

Benefits of Peer Editing Not enough time for one-on-one conferences to edit Joyful and empowering experience Hear someone else's voice  Encourage students to ask questions about their peer's writing

Strategies for Revising Use a teacher passage to allow the students to add more interesting words or delete unnecessary words. Example: Create an "adding wand" and "deleting wand."  Have the students use the wand to point to the spot in your writing where they feel you could add a  better word or delete a word. They could use these wands and strategies when they work in pairs during writing as well.

Strategies for Revising Create an Author's Chair for students to read their work aloud.  Model how to give appropriate, well-said feedback.  The purpose of letting students read aloud and listen to passages are: 1. Comprehension using listening is much more developed than comprehension by reading. 2. Sight decoding is enhanced in reading aloud. 3. Listening to a passage is more effective for students to identify word choice and fluency. After students share their work, whether in pairs or in the Authors Chair, provided time for the students to revise their work based on the feedback they received.

Switch!: Revising and Editing Stations Students will visit stations set up around the room. At each station students will complete a task card related to revising and editing based on the 6+1 Traits: 1. Word Choice 2. Ideas and Content 3. Organization 4. Sentence Fluency 5. Voice 6. Conventions

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