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Teaching the objectives for our revision lesson

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My revision lesson had one of my favorite objectives from the entirety of our SummerPrep curriculum. My mentor teacher had advised my teaching partner and I to use the appropriate terminology for the writing process to get our students in the habit of using those terms as well. “Revision” seemed to be a new word for several of my students, so I took a bit more time with this particular objective to help students understand the new vocabulary. This lesson was a center in conjunction with an editing lesson, so it was important that my revision objective was not only clear, but distinct from the objective for editing a poem. We introduced revision as the idea of “making your poem better” and more specifically, we told students that they might have new ideas and that they could add more lines or descriptive words to their poems. We used the notion of editing one’s paper as a counterexample of revision to help build student clarity. We characterized editing as “making your poem correct” and emphasized the importance of appropriate spelling and capitalization in the poem. By contrasting editing as conventional correctness and revision as the student’s choice to enhance their work, we helped students understand that both objectives were distinct and important to the overall writing process. Having these objectives clearly stated and taking the time to carefully review them with our students proved to be very helpful because students were able to see the importance of these lessons and how editing and revision fit into our overall movement through the writing process.

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