CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.3.5
The Standard
With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Writing Standards
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students plan a piece, draft it, and improve it with help from a peer or adult. They revise ideas and organization first, then edit sentences for grade-level conventions.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students use a simple plan to organize ideas before drafting. With feedback, they add, remove, reorder, or clarify ideas, then correct grade-level spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and sentence use.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often think revising means fixing spelling and punctuation only. They may also copy a draft neatly without changing ideas, or edit every sentence while drafting and lose focus.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short draft with one unclear idea and several convention errors. Ask them to add or change one detail for clarity, then correct two errors and label each change revise or edit.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a cut-up paragraph to reorder, then have them add one missing detail and correct punctuation before rebuilding the final draft.
Ask students to compare a first draft and revised draft, then write which change helps the reader most and why.
Play Revision Relay, where teams rotate through drafts to add a detail, replace a weak word, combine sentences, and fix one convention error.
Use a school lunch review, with students planning key points, revising from partner questions, and editing before sharing it with the cafeteria staff.
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