Skills Unit 2 Teacher Guide - EngageNY

Presenting the Student’s Draft
• Display the student’s draft.
• If permitted by the student, identify the author and invite the student to
present his or her book report by reading it out loud. (If the student has not
agreed to be identified, you may read the draft.)
• Ask the class to give the author a round of applause: “Let’s hear it for our
author!”
• Explain that you would like students to begin by telling the author something
they liked about his or her book report. Model this for the class.
• Invite other students to say something they liked about the book report. Write
down these positive comments on the board, or on a separate piece of chart
paper.
Editing the Student’s Draft
• Have students open to Worksheet 13.1. Tell students this is an editing checklist.
They will use it to edit the chosen author’s draft. The checklist identifies areas
the author might want to think about to make his or her book report better.
• Make clear that the entire class is using the editing checklist to edit one
student’s work today. In the future, students will each be expected to use the
checklist to edit their own work.
• Ask the class if the draft has a title. If so, have students make a check mark
next to the question on the editing checklist. The title can still be added or
changed at this point.
• Complete the remaining questions and discuss whether the item can be
checked—or whether improvements could be made. Model making any
changes to the draft that the class has agreed would be changes for the
better.
• Use the following editing conventions when correcting the draft. Explicitly call
students’ attention to these conventions, explaining this is how professional
writers edit their work. Explain they will use these very same conventions
when they edit their own work:
• Cross out punctuation mistakes and write the correct punctuation mark
above the wrong one.
• Cross out capitalization mistakes and write the correct
uppercase/lowercase letter above the wrong one.
• Write a carat (^) where a word or punctuation mark needs to be inserted.
Write the word or punctuation mark above the carat.
• Correct spelling mistakes if students notice or question them. You
should accept phonemically possible spellings for spellings students
have not yet learned.
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