Conduct research to gather additional evidence to prepare to write.
Prepare to write by analyzing the requirements for the culminating task product for the application unit.
Review expectations and then draft a final product for the application unit.
Develop work that is clear and coherent and appropriate to the task, purpose, and audience.
Evaluate a response to determine how well it meets the expectations of a rubric. Then revise and edit your work based on the model.
This writer's resource provides a checklist for revising your writing.
A detailed source for professional editing and proofreading strategies. Links on the right offer several pages of text for both editing and proofreading, including guidelines and samples for each.
This modular ELA collection for grades 6–12 invites students to explore the complexity of identity and develop a sense of agency as they reflect on what it means to grow up in the world today.
The collection includes:
- Back to School Toolkit
- Introductory lesson
- Multi-genre text sets
- Unit Guide for teaching Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming
- Unit Planning Guide for developing a unit on a book of your choice
- Book Club Guide
- Whole School Read Planning Guide
The resources in this collection help you diversify the range of stories that students read and combine reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills with ethical and empathic reflection.
This screencast offers several methods to help readers spot and fix redundancy in their writing. She discusses why concise writing is important, and specific ways to edit for a more expressive, concise text. Includes short quiz. [3:32]
What does the editing process consist of for your students? Use this informative site to learn more about editing.
This video lesson discusses reviewing a composition to ensure that it meets the assignment. [9:00]
This video lesson discusses the benefits of reading a composition out loud as an editing technique. [7:55]
Explains nine methods for developing ideas for writing, including freewriting, brainstorming, clustering/mapping, maintaining a personal journal, responding to a text, maintaining a response journal, responding to a specific assignment, asking questions about a subject, and making a list. Goes on to show how to move from prewriting to organizing ideas.
An excellent tip sheet on how to evaluate and edit a completed draft of a research paper. Includes in-depth information and examples.
In this module, students read, discuss, and analyze nonfiction and dramatic texts, focusing on how the authors convey and develop central ideas concerning imbalance, disorder, tragedy, mortality, and fate.
Find the rest of the EngageNY ELA resources at https://archive.org/details/engageny-ela-archive .
Writing a Paper? Here at the Capital Community College is everything you could ever ask for while preparing your essay. This site includes the writing process, structure, thesis statement, transitions, the computer as a writing assistant, and much much more. Click each topic heading to view a list of articles on that topic, or click on "Text Version" at the top of the page to view a complete list of links. W.9-10.5 Writing Process, L.9-10.3a Standard Format, W.11-12.5 Writing Process, W.11-12.6 Technology; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.6 Use technology to produce and publish writing
This site examines all aspects of the rewriting process. Includes advice on how to use computers during the process, comments on peer editing, links to related topics, and an editing checklist.
We will gather and organize evidence from parts one and two of The Joy Luck Club and the excerpts from Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother to prepare to write.
Understand how learning about the past in The Joy Luck Club allows the mothers and daughters to alter their perceptions of one another. Choose one mother and daughter's experiences from part four of The Joy Luck Club to use to support your response.
Prepare to write by brainstorming and determining the focus.