Responding to Writing Feedback
With teacher guidance, reread your own writing aloud to check that it sounds right. Listen and respond to questions and suggestions from a teacher or peers to add detail, clarify meaning, and strengthen your writing. This is the scaffolded beginning of writing self-evaluation, not an independent skill.
What a learner can do afterwards
- Reread own writing and spot a missing word or unclear sentence
- Add a detail in response to a question (e.g. 'Can you tell me more about...?')
- Make at least one improvement to a piece based on feedback
1 · Read
Read your writing aloud with your teacher. Hearing the words can help you notice a missing word or a part that is hard to follow. Try a word in a gap, then read the whole sentence again. Reading aloud may not find every mistake. Ask your teacher for help if you are unsure.
Feedback is a reader's question or suggestion about your writing. Ben reads his story aloud. His teacher asks, "Can you tell me more about the dog?" Ben adds a sentence about the dog's brown fur. This gives his reader a detail about what the dog looked like.
To answer a reader's question, choose a detail about what they asked. If they ask what happened next, tell the next action. If they ask how something felt, tell how it felt. A detail about something else does not answer that question. Ask which part if you are unsure.
If a reader cannot tell who or what you mean, use names instead of words like "she" or "it". Keep what you meant to say. Read the changed part again. Check feedback with your teacher. A part that is already clear can stay as it is. You do not have to change it just to show you listened.
Read with your teacher, listen to feedback, and check the part. Make a change if it helps your reader understand.
Original lesson, questions and flashcards about checking writing and responding to feedback, written for this dataset.
Two original readings about checking a note and asking what a reader needs, written for this dataset.
More to read
A note for Dad
Luca writes a note for his dad: "Please bring my to the game."
His teacher asks him to read it aloud. Luca notices that the note does not say what to bring. He meant his cap. He adds "cap" after "my".
Now he reads, "Please bring my cap to the game." The note names what to bring.
Luca and his teacher check the rest of the note too. Reading aloud can help, but it may not catch every mistake.
Ask what the reader needs
Uma reads her story about a picnic to a friend. The friend says, "Tell me more."
Uma asks, "Which part would you like to know about?" The friend asks where they ate. Uma writes, "We ate under a tree."
If a comment is unclear, ask a question before you change your words. Your teacher can help you decide what to try. You do not have to use every idea.
If a comment upsets you, you can pause and talk to a trusted adult. Name-calling is not writing advice. You do not have to thank someone for calling you names.
2 · Watch
به انگلیسیTake it off screen
Where it sits
Learn first
Nothing; this is a starting point.
Optional connections
Where this leads
Jobs that lean on this skill. Follow one to see everything it is built on.
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