CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.5

ELAGrades K–12Production and Distribution of Writing

The Standard

Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.

Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Writing

What This Standard Means

Students need to treat writing as a process, not a one-shot task. They plan before drafting, reread with a purpose, make changes that improve meaning, fix errors that get in the reader’s way, and sometimes start over with a better structure or approach.

Mastery looks like students using feedback and their own rereading to make clear improvements. They can explain what they changed and why. Students often get stuck making only surface edits, adding random details, or resisting revision because they think it means the first draft was bad.

Ways to Teach It

Have students cut apart a messy paragraph and physically rearrange sentences before rewriting it with a clearer order.
Ask students to write, “One change I made that helped my reader was ___ because ___.”
Give students a draft and ask them to mark one confusing part, one weak word, and one sentence to combine.
Show two versions of a real email or announcement, then discuss which one works better for the audience and why.

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