Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Untangle Grammatical Structures
This page explains the need to revise sentences with unclear or mixed constructions and provides examples.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Exploring a More Specific Story
In this lesson, Ralph Fletcher's Marshfield Dreams is used as a mentor text. Students will write stories about an important friendship in their life. Then students will revise and attempt to make sure their writings have stayed on topic,...
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Waunakee Community School District: Sensory Words [Pdf]
A list of sensory words are included on this site. These words are organized according to each "sense" category. W.9-10.3d Precise/sensory details
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Motivating Middle School Students to Revise and Edit [Pdf]
This article explores the idea of authentic audiences and student publication for motivating student writers.
TES Global
Tes: Spoken Language Study Teaching Resources 11 20
[Free Registration/Login Required] This 20-page word resource discusses the topic of "Slang" for students. Practice exercises and notes are provided. L.11-12.3 Language Functions/Style
TES Global
Tes: Travel Writing Sow
[Free Registration/Login Required] A 100-slide PowerPoint presentation will guide students through a descriptive writing task. Students will be write extensive pieces about a travel experience.
Caro Clarke
Explaining Too Much: Why More Is Less
This is the eleventh article in a series that is designed to help the new novel author. This article focuses on how to eliminate needless information in your novel. The key is to not explain too much about the action.
Caro Clarke
Rewriting
This is the 17th article in a series that helps the new fiction author with the final step--revision.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Breaking the Line: An Exercise for Revision in Poetry
Lesson on crafting and revising lines of poetry. Lineation and enjambment are defined and explored. A Robert Creeley poem is analyzed, and a video of his poem is presented. [1:31]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Facts
An eight-slide presentation discussing why revision is important to the writing process and explaining steps that can be taken to begin revision.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Revision Techniques: Improving Flow
A ten-slide presentation explaining revision strategies that focus on improving the flow of a written text.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Revision Techniques: Using a Checklist
An eleven-slide presentation explaining how checklists can be used through the revision step of the writing process.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Parallel Form
This site from the Capital Community College defines the term and gives many examples of faulty parallelism and the corrected version of sentences. Includes links to a couple of quizzes at the bottom of the page. "Most of the...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Revision Checklists [Pdf]
Walk your students through the writing process with this revision checklist. Students review their idea development, organization, sentence fluency and word choice. Click on appropriate grade-levels to get the desired checklists....
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Peer Revision [Pdf]
Students can help their peers with these revision sheets focused on idea development, word choice, voice and grammatical conventions.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revising the Persuasive Essay: Thesis Supported by Evidence
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising the thesis and supporting evidence in an essay.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revising for Organization for Purpose, Audience, and Context
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies for evaluating and revising the organization of an essay appropriate to purpose, audience, and context. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.5 Develop and strengthen...
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Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory: 6+1 Traits
This site focuses on the 6+1 TraitTM Writing framework.
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Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory: 6+1 Traits
This site focuses on the 6+1 TraitTM Writing framework.
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin Madison: Writing Center: Peer Reviews
Bulleted guidelines for conducting a peer review on a draft. Emphasizes knowing the intent of the writer, controlling the content of the review, and maintaining a polite, helpful tone.
W. W. Norton
W.w. Norton & Company: The Writing Process: Revising
Information about the process of revision including three steps to keep in mind: play the role of the reader, think in terms of strength and weakness, and take advantage of computer capabilities. Use the links on the right for other...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: How to Approach Sentence Addition/deletion Questions
A step-by-step approach to a common question type on the SAT Writing and Language Test: adding or deleting sentences.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Develop Work: Revise and Edit
Evaluate a response to determine how well it meets the expectations of a rubric. Then revise and edit your work based on the model.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Develop Final Work
Develop work that is clear and coherent and appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.