Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revising for Effective Introductions and Conclusions
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn how to adjust your thesis so it accurately reflects the main idea of your essay. You will learn how to breathe life into a dead introduction...
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: The Sat Writing and Language Test: The Passages
The SAT Writing and Language Test asks you to edit and revise passages written by an anonymous author. You will encounter a variety of passages from four content areas: Careers, History/Social Studies, Science, and Humanities. Each...
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Night Manager Lesson Plan: Molly of Denali
This lesson, based on the 11-minute animated story "The Night Manager" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, helps children create or improve text by adding details or updating content. When a group of winter visitors arrive, Molly...
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.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Revise Your Work
Revise the organization of your work to make sure the structure is appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience. This will help develop work that is clear and coherent.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Romeo and Juliet: Revise Content
Revise your content and ideas to ensure your work is appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: The Joy Luck Club: Revise a Narrative
In writing a narrative, revise your content and ideas to ensure our work is appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Revising Leads [Pdf]
Revision can be a difficult step to teach in the classroom. Use this tool to help students better understand how to revise their leading sentences. [PDF]
Other
Young Author's Workshop: Revising
Revise means to take another look at something. If you are not satisfied with your story, this is the step where you add details, dialog, and action to make the story more interesting.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Anticipating a Reader's Questions: Lesson 2
This lesson discusses how to anticipate and address a reader's questions.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Revision Techniques: Using a Professor's Notes: Lesson 1
This lesson discusses how to revise a paper based on a teacher's comments. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Revision Techniques: Using a Professor's Notes."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Rewriting Nominalizations: Lesson 2
This lesson goes over how to rewrite sentences including nominalizations. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Rewriting Nominalizations."
EL Education
El Education: Blueprints With Four Drafts
These four drafts of architectural blueprints were created by a 5th/6th grade student from Shutesbury Elementary School, in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, as part of a Learning expedition on Architecture.
EL Education
El Education: Drafts of a Cave Home
This entry shows the progression of the work of one student - from a 5th/6th grade classroom at the Shutesbury Elementary School in Shutesbury, Massachusetts - of a series of cross-sectional illustrations of a prehistoric cave dwelling....
Sophia Learning
Sophia: "Where I'm From" Revision Ideas
Students are asked to use the list of examples provided to help them revise their "Where I'm From" poems.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Goals of Revision: Adding Flavor
This lesson introduces the importance of revision in the writing process. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Revision Techniques: Eliminating Excess
This lesson discusses how to revise a paper to remove extraneous information.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Revision Techniques: Peer Feedback
This lesson discusses how to revise a paper based on peer feedback.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Revision Dice [Pdf]
Revision can be a difficult process for students. With a roll of the dice, students are reminded of the steps they can take to improve their writing. Includes templates for four types of dice that focus on ideas, organization, voice, and...
BBC
Bbc Bitesize Revision: Personal Writing
As part of a revision and close reading section of BBC Bitesize, this site presents information on personal writing with six key features listed. The information is included as part of a brief series on the autobiography.
BBC
Bbc Bitesize Revision: Autobiographical Writing
As part of a revision and close reading section of BBC Bitesize, this site presents a one-page synopsis of autobiographical writing. The site examines an extract from an autobiography, then examines key features located within the extract.