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Fourth Grade
Reading & writing
Polish to Publish
August 22, 2017
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by Maggie Knutson

Lesson plan

Polish to Publish

by Maggie Knutson
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Grade
Fourth Grade
Subject
Reading & writingWriting ProcessRevising WritingStrategies for RevisionUsing Copyediting Symbols
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W.4.5
English Language Arts and Reading Grade 3 3.11.C Grade 4 4.11.C Grade 5 5.11.C
English Grade Three W.3.8.j Grade Four W.4.7.m Grade Five W.5.7.l

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English Language Arts Grade 3 4.1.A.1 4.1.B.1 4.1.C.3 Grade 4 4.1.A.2 4.1.B.1 4.1.C.2 Grade 5 3.2.C.1 3.3.A.3 4.1.A.2 4.1.B.1 4.1.B.2
English Year 4 ACELY1695.a Year 5 ACELY1705.a
English Level 4 W.VCELY300.1 Level 5 W.VCELY330.1

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Learning Objectives

Students will be able to use editing symbols and explain revision tools used in word processing.

Introduction

(5 minutes)
  • Discuss: Why do writers revise?
  • Point out the purposes of revision: to ensure that writing is clear, concise, error-free, and well crafted.
  • Ask students: What tools do writers have to revise and polish their writing?
  • In the discussion, touch on both handwritten revision tools (editing symbols and peer readers) and word processing tools.

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling

(20 minutes)
  • Focus on word processing tools first. Generate a list of tools that are used in software programs with which your students are familiar.
  • Distribute the worksheet Word Processing Basics.
  • Instruct students to work in partners or small groups to match the word processing tool with the explanation.
  • Review the correct answers and demonstrate use of each revision tool by projecting an electronic document, if possible. Explain how and why each tool is useful.

Guided Practice

(10 minutes)
  • Distribute the worksheet Polishing Practice 1.
  • Review the word processing symbols on the sheet.
  • Add any symbols that your class has used that are not on the sheet.
  • Go over the story as a class and model how to use the editing symbols to mark the errors.

Independent working time

(20 minutes)
  • Distribute the worksheet Polishing Practice 2.
  • Review the instructions.
  • Instruct students to complete the editing activity on their own.
  • Go over editing errors and allow students to share story endings.
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Differentiation

  • Support: Complete the first editing portion of Polishing Practice 2 as class or in a small group.

  • Enrichment: Have students explore other editing symbols and word processing tools and share them with the class.

Assessment

(5 minutes)
  • Write a sentence on the board that has several different kinds of errors.
  • Instruct students to copy the sentence and use editing symbols to make corrections.

Review and closing

(5 minutes)
  • Discuss: What is it like to read writing that has a lot of errors?
  • Discuss: If you received an important letter and it had a lot of errors, how would that affect the message in the letter?

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