Kentucky Reading and Writing C.4.2.h
The Standard
- C.4.2
- Compose informative and/or explanatory texts, using writing and digital resources, to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing and rewriting.
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing (2025) · Text Types and Purpose
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students make a plan before drafting and use feedback from a classmate or teacher to improve their writing. They add or move ideas, fix errors, and rewrite parts that still sound unclear.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can show a plan and explain a change made after feedback. The new draft has clearer details or order, and the final copy fixes spelling and punctuation errors.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think revising means only fixing spelling. They may copy a draft neatly and call it a rewrite, or use every peer suggestion without deciding whether it helps.
How to Assess It
- Ask students to write three sentences about a playground game, then exchange drafts and suggest one detail to add. On an exit ticket, each student rewrites one sentence using the suggestion and corrects one error.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs sticky notes to map the beginning, middle, and end of a playground story, then swap maps before drafting.
Ask partners, 'Which sentence needs a clearer detail?' and have each writer explain one change made after hearing the answer.
Play Revision Relay: teams draw a sentence card, add a useful detail, fix an error, and pass it to the next team.
Have students draft a note asking the principal for a new recess item, then revise it after a partner marks one unclear reason.
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Related Standards
- C.4.3.g
With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing and rewriting.
- C.4.1.f
With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing and rewriting.
- C.2.1.f
With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising and editing.
- C.1.2.g
With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising and editing.
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