Editing and Revising

In preparation for Mission Day students are working to edit and revise their writing and publish stories for the big day. On Tuesday this week, students worked on editing and revising Faisal's Mars story. We found that Faisal had a great beginning that really hooked his readers. That onomatopoeia really got us excited to hear more! Then we found Faisal is really good at sounding words out so that his reader knows what he means but sometimes he gets his letters confused. We helped him fix some of his suffixes and reminded him that /tr/ can also sound like /ch/ in words like introduced and trapped. Last we helped Faisal fix some of his sentences so the words made more sense by rereading with him. 

Because of exercises like this students are able to work on editing and revising skills while also knowing the difference between the two:

• When we edit we fix spelling, grammar, punctuation, and capitalization.
• When we revise we use juicier words and add or take away sentences and phrases to make the story stronger.