Sophia Learning
Sophia: Revising Thesis and Topic Sentences
This tutorial focuses on revising the thesis and topic sentences using two videos and two slideshows. The first video discusses a 3-step revising process for making sure the thesis fits the paper; the second video focuses on what...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Revision Technique: Thesis and Support
This slideshow lesson focuses on assessing and revising the thesis, topic sentences, and supporting details in a paper. It uses the analogy of the body: the thesis and topic sentences are the bones and the supporting details are the...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Analyzing First Words and Sentence Length
After learners are given time to think about the topic -"Alone Time with an Adult I Care about," they are given ten to fifteen minutes to write between five and ten sentences on the topic. They ten are told they will revise their...
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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....
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: English Ii Writing: Revision Strategies
This is a unit including six different lessons on on English II Writing: Revision Strategies including the following: Polish Tone, Style, and Figurative Language, Strengthen Sentence Variety, Parallelism, Evaluating and Revising a...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety/sentence Combining: Practice 2
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you are going to practice recognizing sentences that need to be revised to add variety and revising sentences by using additions and sentence combining.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: She Did What? Revising for Connotation
Did she walk, skip, amble, dance? In this minilesson, learners explore connotation by acting out and revising the simple sentence "She walked into the room."
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Revising and Editing the Draft
Tips for revising and editing a rough draft. Links to additional information on Global Revisions, Editing Sentences, and Proofreading is provided.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Academic Writing: Sentence Variety: Strategies for Variation
This lesson offers suggestions to help you fix short, choppy sentences, combine sentences with the same subject, and revise sentences that sound the same. L.11-12.3 Language Functions/Style
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Untangle Grammatical Structures
This page explains the need to revise sentences with unclear or mixed constructions and provides examples.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Practice 4
In this lesson, you will use labeling to decide what changes are necessary to guarantee sentence variety in your writing. Practice exercises are provided.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Strengthen Sentence Variety
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on revision strategies to strengthen sentence variety including varying sentence beginnings, ending, combining with coordinators, and combining with...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Practice 4 (English I Writing)
Label every sentence and change simple sentences into compound and compound-complex sentences as appropriate.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe/mc Graw Hill: Writer's Choice: Revising Sentence Fragments
An exercise providing five sentence fragments that students are asked to revise and rewrite by adding a subject or a predicate. Students can check their answers when finished, and possible answer choices are provided.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Practice 4 (English I Writing)
You will label every sentence and change simple sentences into compound and compound-complex sentences as appropriate.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strategies for Revising: Practice 3 (English Ii Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will label sentences and change simple sentences into compound and compound-complex sentences as appropriate.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Revise and Revisit: Butterflies
Students will take a previously created paragraph and edit it to make it better by adding details, definitions, a topic sentence, or a closure to an informational paragraph. Resources include a PowerPoint presentation and pictures and...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Revising Topic Sentences
A nine-slide presentation explaining how to use the acronym MAP (main idea, attitude, preview) to edit and revise a topic sentence.
Other
Sjrc Writing Center: Parallel Structure Lesson
This site explains the topic of parallel structure. Numerous examples of sentences with parallel structure are provided.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: General Writing Resources
This helpful resource details the process of writing, including how to plan, write, and revise. Content also includes the different types or genres of writing, and exercises in grammar and mechanics.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Parallelism
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Parallelism in writing requires aligning words, phrases, clauses, and sentences in similar grammatical structures. This lesson will provide you with strategies to help you...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strategies for Revising: Practice 3
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will review the different types of clauses and sentences. You will also use editing strategies to help you add variety to your sentences. A step-by-step...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Sentence Conventions
[Free Registration/Login Required] The student will expand or reduces sentences (e.g., adding or deleting modifiers, combining or revising sentences).
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.