CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.4.5

ELA4th GradeProduction and Distribution of Writing

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 Students Need to Do: Students plan a piece, write a draft, and use feedback from classmates or adults to improve it. They revise ideas and organization, then edit grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
What Mastery Looks Like: Students use a plan to draft, then make changes that improve focus, organization, details, or clarity. They use feedback thoughtfully and correct grade level grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
Common Misconceptions: Students often think revising means correcting spelling or making a clean copy. They may accept every peer suggestion without judging it, or ignore feedback that requires larger changes.
How to Assess It: Give students their current draft and eight minutes. Ask: “Make one revision that improves meaning and one edit that fixes a convention, then label each change.”

Lesson moves

Print a student draft, cut it into paragraph strips, and have pairs reorder it, then add a missing transition or detail.
During peer conferences, partners answer, “Where were you confused?” and “Which detail helped most?” before writers choose one revision.
Play Revision or Editing Sort with change cards such as “add a detail,” “move this sentence,” and “fix the comma.”
Have students revise a school event announcement for families, then edit it before posting it in the hallway.

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Learning progression

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