Let's Fix It! Basic Editing Skills to Be Successful in the Middle Grades

Students will learn some key tips, tricks, and grammar rules to revise and edit their own papers. We will focus on a different topic each week. After I will teach a short lesson, students will practice the trick or rule that was taught. Practice will be as a group and interactive. Revising focuses on the paper as a whole: topic sentences and conclusion sentences, relevant details, sentence flow, and word choice. Students edit papers to follow grammar rules about complete sentences, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling. 

Week 1 of the month: revising sentences 
Week 2 of the month: word choice 
Week 3 of the month: punctuation rules
Week 4 of the month: common fragment/run-on sentence mistakes 
(If there is a 5th week of the month, students can ask to talk about any revising/editing topic and we will cover it in this class.)

These class topics will repeat with new content each month.