Revision

A Baker's Dozen of Fat-Cutting Exercises
A handout to help writers be more concise. It will work best with high school writers and older.

Finding the Black Ninja Fish: Revision and Writing Groups in the First Grade
In this article a teacher details her year-long process of teaching first graders to revise.

How do you Spell Caught?
In this article a teacher explains her Write-Think-Check process that helps elementary LD students edit for spelling.

Reading Practices as Revision Strategies
This strategy approaches revision from a read-aloud, collaborative standpoint.

Revising drafts
This handout is designed for high school and above but might also work with middle school students.

Revising Revision: How my Students Transformed Writers' Workshop
This article explores strategies used in third and fourth grade. Access to this 9-page document requires Adobe Reader or compatible application.

Revising: Searching for Things to Fix
A strategy for revision in small groups. Scroll down for questions for writers to ask themselves as they revise.

Revising Your Essay
Students color-code parts of their essay to see where it might be improved. This 1-page handout requires MS-Word or compatible application for access.

Seven Strategies for Helping Students to Assess and Revise Their Own Writing
Practical approaches for the classroom. This 7-page document requires Adobe Reader or compatible application for access.

Working With Beginning Writers
Modelling revision with first graders.

Wordiness: Danger Signals and Ways to React
Models of wordiness and suggestions for revision.