Recrafting and Editing Our Writing

Every Tuesday, we recraft and edit a piece of writing from one of my class blogs from over the years (these date back to 2010).  One thing many of our students have in common is that they go straight from their draft copy to publishing, neglecting to recraft and edit their work.  (Ask them about it and see if they can explain the five steps of the writing process to you - we go over this in class all the time.)

Students work with a past piece of blog writing, which they recraft and edit individually.  When they have finished, they compare what they have done with a buddy, discussing similarities and differences in their recrafting and editing.

We then come together as a class and recraft and edit the piece of writing.  Here is an example of what this looks like:

PS Remember to visit our class writing blog - we'd love to see some comments from our whanau!