1. Editing Day
On Desk:
Completed Rough Draft
Rubric
Red and Green Coloring Materials

2. Hand your paper to the student to your right.

3. Revising
Revising is making your writing better by finding & correcting problems with content; changing the ideas in your writing to make them clearer, stronger, and more convincing.
Revising looks at the “Big Picture”—the Idea level.

4. Editing
Editing is finding and correcting problems with grammar, style, word choice & usage, and punctuation.
Editing focuses on the “Little Picture”—Word level.

5. Get out a RED pencil
Does the paper have ONE indent at the beginning of the paragraph?
Is the title centered at the top of the page?
Is the paragraph double-spaced?

6. Get out a GREEN pencil Find the Claim/Topic sentence.
Does it introduce the paragraph by stating the claim that will be made?
Does it include the title of the article?

7. Get out a RED pencil Is the title of the article properly formatted?
Article = “Title”

8. Get out a GREEN pencil Find the Conclusion sentence.
Does it restate the Claim/Topic sentence in a new way?

9. Get out a GREEN pencil Find Evidence #1
Is the evidence a quote from the article?
Does it support the claim?

10. Get out a GREEN pencil Find the reasoning #1
Does the reasoning explain how the evidence supports the claim?
Is it in their own words?

11. Get out a GREEN pencil Find Evidence #2
Is the evidence a quote from the article?
Does it support the claim?

12. Get out a GREEN pencil Find the reasoning #2
Does the reasoning explain how the evidence supports the claim?
Is it in their own words?

13. Get out a purple pencil Find Evidence #3
Is the evidence a quote from the article?
Does it support the claim?

14. Get out a GREEN pencil Find the reasoning #3
Does the reasoning explain how the evidence supports the claim?
Is it in their own words?

15. Get out a RED pencil Look for proper capitalization.
Look for correct spelling.
Use a dictionary if needed!

16. Get out a GREEN pencil Fluency: Look for transition words
Listen for smoothness and easy flow
Look for differences in sentence length
Look for variety and logic in sentence beginnings.

17. Get out a RED pencil Word Choice: Look at your paper and decide:
Have I used some strong verbs or colorful phrases that grab my reader? Have I chosen the most precise word? Have I used any unique words? Did I repeat common words too many times?