Watch twelve videos and download content to learn more how teachers can use a revision guide to teach students how to revise a literary essay.

Persuades the reader of the importance of revision, and outlines the process of good revision: language, tone, organization, and correctness.

Take students through the revision process with this prompt and lesson.

Take your learners step by step through the revision process of with this prompt and guide.

Students will learn how to authentically revise their writing with this prompt and lesson.

Students will learn how to authentically revise their writing with this prompt and lesson.

This lesson focuses on evaluating the structure of paragraphs and revising them.

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.

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...

In this lesson, Ralph Fletcher's writing style is introduced to student writers. Students will write a rough draft about a time they ate, or a time when they saw someone else eat, something unusual. Then students will read and analyze...

One step you might want to take in revising a draft is to examine the organization of your paper and decide if and how the organization needs to be adjusted. This handout offers five strategies for examining and reorganizing your draft....

Tutorial on newspapers. Looks at types of newspapers, the language of newspapers, news sources, what has news value, marketing, distribution, circulation, readership, online newspapers, editorial stance, ownership of newspapers, and...

For this lesson, Ralph Fletcher's Marshfield Dreams is used as a mentor text. Learners will write stories about an important friendship in their life. Then students will revise and attempt to make sure their writings have stayed on...

An excellent guide to help the writer review a composition to see if their position has been fully supported by evidence and to analyze the perspective of the anticipated audience. Follow the links on the right to access all of the...

Students will compare and contrast the written form of Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman" to a live reading of the poem by an actress. Follow-up activities provided.

An activity where students are asked to write for a specific audience. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.5 Develop and strengthen writing

Watch two videos and download content to learn more about using rubrics for both evaluation and instruction in the classroom.

Learn how the sense organs are structured and how they function to provide you with five senses.

Tips from the University of Toronto on using word processing features as aids in composing and revising papers. W.9-10.6 Technology, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.6, W.11-12.6 Technology

[Free Registration/Login Required] This Power Point interactive presentation is a review over William Shakespeare's Macbeth through a game of "Connect Four."

As part of a review and close reading section of BBC Bitesize, this site presents an overview of various purposes of reading, including a five-bullet point explanation of reading purposes. Click the Next button for more information.

This site goes over several tips involved in writing a particular point of view, or narrative perspective, including first person and third person.

This website focuses on how to write a descriptive essay including identifying subject, purpose, incorporating sensory images, and quick tips for planning, drafting, and revising the essay. It also provides links to related articles.

[Free Registration/Login Required] These worksheets can help students practice the Common Core State Standards skill of focusing on a topic and strengthening writing as needed by revising and editing.