Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
3.11.C
revise drafts to improve sentence structure and word choice by adding, deleting, combining, and rearranging ideas for coherence and clarity;
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS):
3.11.D
edit drafts using standard English conventions, including:
(i) complete simple and compound sentences with subject-verb agreement;
(ii) past, present, and future verb tense;
(iii) singular, plural, common, and proper nouns;
(iv) adjectives, including their comparative and superlative forms;
(v) adverbs that convey time and adverbs that convey manner;
(vi) prepositions and prepositional phrases;
(vii) pronouns, including subjective, objective, and possessive cases;
(viii) coordinating conjunctions to form compound subjects, predicates, and sentences;
(ix) capitalization of official titles of people, holidays, and geographical names and places;
(x) punctuation marks, including apostrophes in contractions and possessives and commas in compound sentences and items in a series; and
(xi) correct spelling of words with grade-appropriate orthographic patterns and rules and high-frequency words; and
Florida - Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking:
ELA.3.C.1.5
Improve writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing with guidance and support from adults and feedback from peers.
3rd Grade Writing - Revising and Editing Lesson
Revising and Editing
When you write, it is important to revise and edit your work as necessary.
Revise
To revise your writing is to make changes that will make it clearer and more interesting to read.
Always reread what you have written. Ask yourself questions.
Do my ideas makesense in the way I ordered them?
Do I have good sentences that do not all start the same way?
Have I used strong words that are specific and interesting?
My new kitten watches everything that is going on. My kitten stares out the window for a long time. My new kitten wants to know about everything. My new kitten stays up late into the night looking around for stuff.
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Editing
To edit your writing is to fix any mistakes in grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
After revising your work, reread it again, looking for mistakes. Ask questions.
Do all my sentences have subjects and verbs that agree?