Revision and Editing Lesson

What are the five steps of writing?

• draft, rough draft, edit, revise, turn in

• brainstorm, write, submit, re-do, correct

• check spelling, grammar, sentences, title and paragraph

• prewrite, draft, revise, edit, publish

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.3.3

CCSS.RI.5.5

I add vivid verbs during this step of the writing process.

• Editing

• Revision

• Publishing

• Drafting

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CCSS.RI.4.3

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.5.3

CCSS.RI.5.5

Kyle is looking over his writing to see if there are any misspelled word, end marks and words that need to be capitalize. Which stage of the writing process is Kyle in?

• Publishing

• Drafting

• Editing

• Revision

The opposite of a fragment is a ____.

• question

• hanging indent

• sentence

• block

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CCSS.L.4.1F

Choose the option that best revises the following sentence for clarity: "He delivered the performance, which was both powerful and moving, with great skill."

• He skillfully delivered a powerful and moving performance.

• The performance, which he delivered, was powerful, moving, and done with great skill.

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DOK Level 2: Skill/Concept

Revise the following sentence to improve its clarity: "The boy quickly ran to the store to buy some milk because his mother told him to."

• The boy ran quickly to the store to buy some milk because his mother told him to.

• Because his mother told him to, the boy quickly ran to the store to buy some milk.

• The boy ran to the store quickly to buy some milk because his mother told him to.

• The boy quickly ran to the store because his mother told him to buy some milk.

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DOK Level 3: Strategic Thinking

Principal Calder shook off some leaves from her coat as she put the books on the table She exclaimed, "I didn't realize how many peach trees you have here on Peachtree lane." What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 6?

• Change Peachtree to PeachTree

• Change peach to Peach

• Change lane to Lane

• No change need to be made in sentence 6

Answer explanation

Capitalize names of streets.

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CCSS.L.4.2A

CCSS.L.3.2A

CCSS.L.2.2A

CCSS.L.1.2A

CCSS.L.K.2A

Which revision improves clarity and conciseness?

• The boy who was very hungry ate the cake.

• The very hungry boy ate the cake.

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DOK Level 2: Skill/Concept

Mom was furious when she saw the mess we had made in the kitchen. Her voice was loud as she yelled, "You clean this mess up right now." What change, if any, needs to be made in sentence 2?

• Change yelled to yell

• Change the period to a question mark

• Change the period to an exclamation mark

• No change needs to be made in sentence 2

Answer explanation

Exclamatory - exclaims, is excited

Tags

CCSS.L.4.3B

CCSS.L.1.2B

CCSS.L.K.2B

When you have finished your rough draft, what 4 things should you make sure to check?

• It looks good enough so I'm done.

• capitalization, animal crackers, starbursts, and peanuts

• I don't want to.

• capitalization, indentions, punctuation, and spelling.

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CCSS.L.4.2A

CCSS.L.3.2A

CCSS.L.2.2A

CCSS.L.1.2A

CCSS.L.K.2A