Virginia SOL 7.W.3.B
The Standard
Self-and peer-edit writing for capitalization, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, paragraphing, and Standard English (See Language Usage for grade level expectations).
Virginia Standards of Learning for English
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students reread their own work and a peer’s work to find errors in conventions and organization. They make accurate corrections and explain why each change is needed.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students find and correct errors in their own drafts and a classmate’s draft. They explain corrections using clear terms such as fragment, comma error, paragraph break, or verb agreement.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may treat editing as rewriting ideas instead of fixing errors. They may trust spell-check, overlook sentence fragments, or mark a peer’s error without explaining the correction.
How to Assess It
- Give students a short paragraph containing six editing errors. Ask them to correct each error and label the reason for each change.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a printed paragraph, colored pencils, and an editing key to mark spelling, punctuation, sentence, and paragraph errors.
Ask students to explain which editing change most improved a draft and why the original wording was incorrect or unclear.
Run an editing relay where teams correct one error at a time, then justify each change before earning a point.
Have students edit a mock email to a principal, checking that its sentences, paragraphs, punctuation, and word choices fit a formal audience.
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