Georgia 11.P.EICC.4.h
The Standard
Edit the text, ensuring it adheres to the conventions of written language. (C)
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards · Practices (P) · Engagement & Intention for Comprehension & Composition
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students proofread drafts and correct errors in grammar, usage, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and sentence structure. They apply convention rules without changing the writer’s intended meaning.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students consistently find and correct errors in sentence boundaries, agreement, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and usage. Their edited copy is clean, readable, and faithful to the writer’s meaning.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may correct spelling but miss run-ons, fragments, agreement errors, or misplaced punctuation. They may trust spell-check when a wrong word is spelled correctly. Some confuse editing with rewriting the author’s ideas or style.
How to Assess It
- Give students a five-sentence paragraph containing six convention errors. Ask them to correct each error and explain one correction using a grammar or punctuation rule.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a printed paragraph with planted errors, colored pens, and a checklist for sentence boundaries, agreement, punctuation, spelling, and capitalization.
Show two edited versions of one paragraph, then ask students to choose the stronger version and explain three corrections.
Run an editing relay where teams correct one convention error and name the rule before passing the paragraph to the next teammate.
Have students proofread a mock email to a college admissions office, correcting errors that could weaken the writer’s credibility.
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