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LIFESAVERS ~Revision Practice at its Best Grades 4-5

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Imagine your students replacing dull words, adding details, checking for spelling, and even more to improve a rough draft.  Most students think that revising means copying the rough draft in their best handwriting.  The fact is that students do not know how to revise.  Over the years, teachers have told students to write a rough draft and a final draft, but we all know that just telling them to revise does not teach them how to do it.  They need to know exactly what the word revision means.

          In an effort to provide a step-by-step method to revision, we developed an acronym.  Each letter in the acronym will remind students of the twelve mistakes and/or traits on which they should focus when transforming their rough drafts into well-written stories or essays.  Using the South Carolina state writing rubric, we pooled together the traits, and came up with “Lifesavers”, a memorable acronym to help teachers get the revision job done.  By introducing this simple acronym and teaching a method to revision, our students can become confident in making rough drafts much better! 

          This book will explain the acronym and provide you with lots of handouts for you to use with your students.

 

 

Table of Contents

 

 

Introduction

 

Section 1:  Getting to Know the Acronym

Personal Spelling List

          How Do I Write an Awesome Grabber?

            What Grabs Your Attention?

Practice Writing Awesome “Grabbers”

          How Do I Write a Topic Sentence After Reading a Writing  

          Prompt?

          Topic Sentences

Practice Writing Topic Sentences

          How Do I Spot a Sentence Fragment?

          How Do I Spot a Run-on Sentence?

          Punctuation Police Tickets

          Watch Out for Sentences That Do Not Fit the Prompt!

          When Do I Start a New Paragraph When I am Writing a Story?

          Practice Revising Dull Details

          The Case of the Missing Details

          Samples with Poor Word Choice and Revision

          A List of Commonly Overused Words

          Let’s Practice Replacing Overused Words

          A List of Transition Words

 

Section 2:  Let the Revising Begin!

          Steps to the Process

          Lifesavers Acronym

          Wallet-size Lifesavers

          Time to Revise Worksheet

          Writing Assessment Rubric

          Lifesaver Peer Edit

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