6.10.C
The Standard
revise drafts for clarity, development, organization, style, word choice, and sentence variety
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 and reshape drafts, not just correct surface errors. They clarify ideas, add relevant support, improve the order and flow, strengthen wording, and vary sentence patterns.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can identify weak spots in a draft and make changes that improve meaning and flow. They add useful details, reorder ideas, choose precise words, and vary sentence structure while keeping their purpose clear.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think revising means correcting spelling and punctuation. They may add details that do not support the main point or replace simple words with awkward ones. Some vary sentence openings but leave the paragraph poorly organized.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short, weak paragraph and ask them to make three labeled revisions: one for clarity, one for development, and one for sentence variety.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a printed paragraph, scissors, and tape, then have them cut and reorder sentences to create a clearer sequence.
Ask students to compare two revised paragraphs and write which version communicates the main idea better, citing two specific changes.
Play Revision Relay, where teams rotate through stations to improve one draft’s details, organization, word choice, and sentence openings.
Show a cluttered school announcement, then have students revise it so families can quickly understand the event details and required actions.
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Related Standards
- 7.10.C
revise drafts for clarity, development, organization, style, word choice, and sentence variety
- 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;
- 8.10.C
The 8th Grade version of this standard.
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