Georgia 9.P.EICC.4.g
The Standard
Make changes to the text based on self-evaluation or external feedback, revising the organization, ideas, information, word choices, and craft techniques in order to increase the text’s effectiveness. (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 evaluate a draft and use their own observations or feedback from others to revise it. They change more than surface errors, focusing on meaning, structure, details, language, and craft.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students make purposeful changes to structure, content, wording, and style. They can explain why each major change better serves the audience, purpose, or intended effect.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat revision as correcting spelling and punctuation only. They may accept every suggestion without judging it, or reject feedback without testing whether it improves the draft.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short, weak paragraph and one peer comment. Ask them to revise it, then name the change and explain how it improves clarity or impact.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Print a draft, cut it into sections, rearrange the pieces, and add missing transitions before rewriting the improved version.
Ask students to choose one feedback comment and write why they will use, adapt, or reject it.
Run Revision Relay, where pairs rotate through drafts and suggest one stronger detail, transition, word choice, or craft move.
Compare a published article with an earlier draft, then identify changes an editor likely requested and the effect of each change.
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