Maryland ELA 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.
Maryland College and Career Ready Standards for English Language Arts (2025)
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students plan a draft, get feedback, and change parts that are unclear or out of order. They also edit sentence errors and try a new approach when a draft is not working.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can use a peer's comment to rewrite a confusing section. They can explain how the change helps the reader and catch errors in the final draft.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think revision means swapping a few words or fixing commas. Some follow every peer suggestion, even when it does not help their writing.
How to Assess It
- Pair students with their current drafts. Have partners mark one confusing spot, then ask each writer to revise it, fix one sentence error, and label both changes.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Cut a sample paragraph into sentence strips; pairs reorder the strips and add a sentence connecting two ideas.
After partners trade drafts, ask: Which comment will help your reader most, and what will you change?
Run a revision relay: groups improve a weak claim, a vague example, and a run-on sentence in a short draft.
Give students a messy email requesting a lunch change; have them revise the request, reason, and tone for the principal.
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