CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.5.5
The Standard
With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts · Writing Standards
What This Standard Means
Students need to treat writing as a process, not a one-time assignment. They should be able to plan before drafting, use feedback from classmates and the teacher, revise for meaning and organization, edit for grammar and mechanics, and sometimes start over with a better approach.
Mastery looks like a student making specific changes that improve the piece, then explaining why those changes help the reader. Common trouble spots are vague peer feedback, editing only spelling, resisting revision, and not knowing the difference between revising ideas and editing conventions.
Ways to Teach It
- Give students a messy paragraph and have them use colored pencils to mark one addition, one deletion, and one moved sentence.
- Ask students to write: What feedback did you use today, and what exact change did you make because of it?
- Collect drafts with one highlighted revision and one highlighted edit, then check if students can label the difference.
- Show a simple email to the principal, then revise it together for clearer purpose, stronger details, and correct conventions.
Before This Standard
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What This Unlocks
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