CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.7.5
The Standard
With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.
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, revise, edit, or rewrite drafts using feedback from peers and adults. They choose changes that make the writing's purpose clearer and better fit the intended audience.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can make meaningful changes to ideas, organization, evidence, and tone after feedback. They can also edit conventions and explain how their changes better serve the intended reader and purpose.
Common Misconceptions
- Students often think revising means correcting spelling and punctuation. They may accept every peer suggestion without judging it, or change words without improving purpose, structure, or audience fit.
How to Assess It
- Give students a weak paragraph written to persuade classmates to recycle. Ask them to revise it and label two changes that better address purpose or audience.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Cut a printed draft into sections, rearrange it for clearer organization, then add or remove details to match the intended audience.
Compare two introductions for the same topic and discuss which better fits a principal, a classmate, or a younger student.
Run a revision relay where partners rotate drafts and suggest one change to purpose, audience, organization, evidence, and conventions.
Rewrite a school announcement as an email to families and as a social media post for students, changing tone and detail.
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