Revising and editing written work is a great way to improve our writing skills overall.
Improving vocabulary choices and language devices can help inform future decisions in your writing.
Structural features and sentences can be improved to make your writing more cohesive and varied.
Using a success criteria can help you to create specific feedback.

Keywords

Squander - to waste something in a reckless and foolish way
Revise - to look at a piece of work closely and make any corrections or amendments
Elevate - when thinking about writing, this means to make improvements and make it even better
Credible - believable or trustworthy

Common misconception

Rewriting and improving responses is a waste of time.

How does the process of revising and rewriting develop vocabulary use? How does rewriting support the writing of future responses?

The focus of the editing can be changed to suit class and individual targets. This lesson could be delivered using both self and peer assessment.

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6 Questions

Q1.

What word beginning with 'V' means it is absolutely essential or critically important?

Correct Answer: Vital

Q2.

What is the subject of this task? 'You purchased a faulty phone. Write a letter of complaint to the phone company detailing the issues you have encountered.'

to persuade and inform

a letter to the phone company

Correct answer: a faulty phone and the issues encountered

Q3.

Who is the audience of this task? 'Write an article about school uniform for a broadsheet newspaper titled: 'It's time to bin the uniform'.'

getting rid of uniform

Correct answer: readers of the newspaper

to persuade

Q4.

Which devices are good ways to open your non-fiction writing?

Correct answer: declarative sentence

mirroring

Correct answer: rhetorical question

Correct answer: simile

conclusive discourse markers

Q5.

Which of these does not belong in the success criteria for supporting detail in a single paragraph outline?

note form

Correct answer: full sentences

main points and ideas

rhetorical devices

Q6.

Which of these can be found in the success criteria for a website or a piece of informative writing?

analysis of quotes

Correct answer: subheadings

Correct answer: rhetorical devices

Correct answer: bullet points

identification of methods

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6 Questions

Q1.

If something is credible it is ...

unlikely

Correct answer: believable

doubtful

Q2.

Which word matches this definition: 'to waste something in a reckless and foolish way.'?

elevate

Correct answer: squander

revise

vital

Q3.

Which of these is a good example of a topic sentence?

Please read my speech.

Sometimes you might feel like it is too much, or maybe not.

Correct answer: Isn't it mind-boggling how we expect teens to navigate the chaotic maze of life?

Q4.

Which of these is not a discourse marker?

initially

however

furthermore

consequently

Correct answer: enabling

Q5.

Which of these is a good example of a simile?

Like a square tyre on a unicycle, the debate refuses to finish.

Correct answer: Like a badly swatted fly, the debate refuses to die.

Like an elephant in a tutu, the debate refuses to come to an end.

Like a banana in a snow storm, the debate will not slip away.

Q6.

Match the sentence starter to the sentence.

Correct Answer:adverb starter,Surprisingly, teens struggle to navigate social media safely

Surprisingly, teens struggle to navigate social media safely

Correct Answer:verb starter,Navigating the maze of social media is impossible

Navigating the maze of social media is impossible

Correct Answer:simile starter,Like a maze, social media is tricky to navigate safely

Like a maze, social media is tricky to navigate safely