Lessons tagged with "revise+writing"
Revise Writing
- Grade:
- 2
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This Common Core writing lesson focuses on students revising written work to make it better. In this lesson, students will read a text with the main idea identified. Then, they will add or delete sentences that support or don't support the main idea. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review modeled after the Common Core assessment items.
Plan and Write Informational Text
- Grade:
- 5
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing unit covers how to write informational text. It includes planning and writing; revising by adding transitions; adding quotations; and rearranging, adding, or deleting sentences.
Revise Writing to Improve Organization of Ideas Between Paragraphs
- Grade:
- 6
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
Revise Writing to Improve Organization of Ideas Within Paragraphs
- Grade:
- 6
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing strategies lesson focuses on revising writing to improve the organization of ideas within paragraphs. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read a passage and identify the main idea in each paragraph. Then, they identify any details that do not relate to the main idea. Finally, students answer the corresponding questions. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Revise Writing to Improve Word Choice
- Grade:
- 7
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing strategies lesson focuses on revising writing to improve word choice. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the question and paragraph, looking for the words to be revised. Then, students replace the word with a more precise word from the word bank and re-read the sentence in the paragraph with the new, more precise word. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Revise Writing for Appropriate Word Choice
- Grade:
- 8
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing strategies lesson focuses on revising writing for appropriate word choice. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read the question and the paragraph looking for the underline word to be revised. Then, they determine a more appropriate word to replace the underlined word, using a word bank of necessary. Finally, they reread the sentence with the new word to check. In addition to the lesson, there are four more pages for Independent Practice and review modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Revise Writing to Improve Organization of Ideas Between Paragraphs
- Grade:
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing strategies lesson focuses on revising writing to improve organization of ideas between paragraphs. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read a passage, noticing the underlined repeated words or ideas. Then, using synonyms and transitions, students improve the organization and flow of the text through revising. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.
Revise Writing
- Grade:
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
This writing lesson covers how to revise writing by adding or deleting sentences based on how they support the main idea. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will learn how to change the written text to improve it by determining which details support the main idea and which don’t. In addition to the lesson, there are four pages of Independent Practice with questions modeled after the Common Core assessment items.