Using Guess, Check and Revise

Your essay writers can make sure all of their mechanics are in order by checking off each point on this list. Pupils read through their work and revise sentences, paragraphs, spelling, and grammar if necessary.

Eliminate basic errors in spelling and mechanics with a quick checklist for proofreading written work. Individuals or partners mark off each of the five points on the list, looking for correct capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and...

Let's get to the point. The final lesson in this persuasive writing series helps learners revise their essays by clarifying how supporting details prove their theses. This activity would best be completed in pairs, allowing peer feedback...

What is the difference between revision and editing? Provide your class with a couple of acronyms to help them remember: ARMS and CUPS. This resource includes three printable references pages in various colors that provide the acronyms...

Using a rubric, young writers work in small groups to revise their first drafts of a free-verse poem. After a productive discussion, poets compose their final draft.  

Stories are much more interesting to read when they involve realistic characters. The sixth lesson of this writing series helps learners add details to enhance the characters in their personal narratives. This revision process involves...

Eschew obfuscation! Using dictionaries, writers revise a complicated text so that it reads more simply and improves the clarity of the passage. Focusing on word meanings, they revise the sample worksheets and then present their...

Googledocs have become a standard form of communication through word processing. For this lesson, explore the use the feature "track changes" in Microsoft Word in order to revise paragraphs in pieces of writing. Pupils look for ways to...

It's time to do some body building with the fourth lesson of this series on persuasive writing. After creating a thesis statement and brainstorming supporting ideas and details, young writers begin creating the body of their...

Transitional words and phrases are essential writing tools that allow authors to clearly guide their audience through a story. In the fifth lesson of this series on narrative writing, learners begin their drafts by linking together the...