Virginia SOL 6.W.3.A
The Standard
Revise writing for clarity of content, word choice, sentence variety, and transition among paragraphs.
Virginia Standards of Learning for English
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students reread a draft and make changes that help readers follow the ideas. They choose more exact words, reshape repetitive sentences, and connect each paragraph logically to the next.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can find places where meaning is vague, repetitive, or choppy and make targeted changes. The revised draft uses precise words, varied sentence patterns, and clear links between paragraphs.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think revision means correcting spelling and punctuation only. They may replace simple words with awkward synonyms, vary sentence openings without purpose, or add transitions that do not show the relationship between ideas.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short, choppy paragraph and ask them to revise one unclear idea, one weak word, two sentence openings, and the transition.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a cut-up paragraph to reorder, then have them add transition phrases and combine two choppy sentences.
Ask students to compare two versions of a paragraph and explain which revisions make the ideas easier to follow.
Play Revision Relay, with teams improving one weak word, sentence opening, unclear detail, or paragraph link at each station.
Have students revise instructions for a school routine so a new student could follow every step without asking questions.
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