Vary sentence beginnings (trait of sentence fluency).Apply story surgery where whole chunks of text are cut, added, and rearranged to improve the flow of ideas (trait of organization).Add spider-leg sentences to develop ideas more completely (trait of ideas).For example, revision may include the following: One way to help students see the difference between editing and revision is to demonstrate the activities of each. Announcing that writers are to “revise and edit today” will only continue to mislead students as to the two different roles these stages play in improving a piece. Because kids already confuse the difference between revision and editing, the more you can do to separate the two, the better. Editing makes the piece LOOK better (conventions). Revision makes the piece SOUND a whole lot better–which addresses the traits of ideas, organization, voice, word choice, and sentence fluency. Students need to understand the difference so that they know what to do during the two very different stages. There is a clear distinction between revising ideas and editing conventions.
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