1.11.C
The Standard
revise drafts by adding details in pictures or words
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students reread a draft and notice where more information is needed. They add details through labels, picture changes, phrases, or sentences that help the reader understand.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can point to a place where a reader needs more information. They add a useful label, picture detail, phrase, or sentence that makes the meaning clearer.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think revising means fixing spelling, erasing the whole draft, or making the picture prettier. They may add details that do not help explain the topic or event.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short draft with a simple picture and the sentence, “I saw a dog.” Ask them to add one useful picture detail and three words.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give students sticky notes to add labels, speech bubbles, or extra facts to a picture and draft about recess.
Ask, “What could you add so a reader can picture what happened?” and have partners suggest one useful detail.
Play Detail Detective by giving pairs simple drafts and asking them to earn points for adding who, where, what, or how details.
Have students revise directions for a classroom job by adding a picture detail or words that help a new student follow them.
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Related Standards
- 5.11.C
revise drafts to improve sentence structure and word choice by adding, deleting, combining, and rearranging ideas for coherence and clarity;
- 4.11.C
revise drafts to improve sentence structure and word choice by adding, deleting, combining, and rearranging ideas for coherence and clarity;
- K.10.C
The Kindergarten version of this standard.
- 3.11.C
revise drafts to improve sentence structure and word choice by adding, deleting, combining, and rearranging ideas for coherence and clarity;
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