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Revising and Editing Your Writing

English · Writing Composition · ages 11-14

Name ______________________ Date ____________

What does revising mean?
- Making big changes to ideas, paragraphs, and structure
- Fixing spelling mistakes only
- Copying the draft over neatly
This shows the writing process. Which step comes right after Revise?
- Draft
- Edit
- Proofread
Editing focuses on sentence-level issues like word choice, grammar, and punctuation.
Circle one: True False
Marcus finds a sentence that says "The dog run fast." What kind of fix does this need?
- An editing fix, changing 'run' to 'runs'
- A revising fix, deleting the whole paragraph
- No fix, it's correct
Zara's paragraph has two ideas that don't connect, and her reader gets confused. What should Zara do first?
- Check her spelling
- Reorganize or add a sentence that connects the two ideas
- Print the paper and stop working on it
Bo is writing a story for younger kids but used a lot of hard vocabulary. What should Bo do while revising?
- Replace hard words with simpler ones his young readers will understand
- Keep the hard words because they make the writing sound smart
- Ignore the audience and focus only on spelling
Diego wrote a formal report for his teacher, but he used slang words like 'gonna' and 'kinda'. While revising, what should Diego consider?
- How many pages the report has
- Whether the report is printed or typed
- Whether his word choice fits his audience and purpose
Ellie proofread her essay for spelling first, then never reread it for confusing paragraphs. What is Ellie's mistake?
- She skipped revising for structure and ideas before proofreading
- She proofread her essay more than once
- She used a dictionary to check her spelling

Answer key

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Revising and Editing Your Writing W1-mt_av-uRBrhwT-s1

Making big changes to ideas, paragraphs, and structure · Revising is about the big picture: whether your ideas connect and your paragraphs are in the right order.
Edit · After revising the ideas and structure, writers move on to editing sentences and words.
True · Editing works at the sentence level, after the bigger structural changes from revising are done.
An editing fix, changing 'run' to 'runs' · A grammar mistake inside one sentence is exactly what editing is for.
Reorganize or add a sentence that connects the two ideas · A confusing connection between ideas is a structure problem, so it needs revising, not just a spelling check.
Replace hard words with simpler ones his young readers will understand · Good revising checks whether the writing fits the people who will actually read it.
Whether his word choice fits his audience and purpose · Slang doesn't fit a formal report for a teacher, so Diego needs to adjust his words for his audience and purpose.
She skipped revising for structure and ideas before proofreading · Proofreading catches small errors last. Skipping revision means the bigger structural problems never get fixed.