Learning Activity

Evaluating: Utilizing Best Practices to Write Clear, Coherent Products

Subject Area

English Language Arts

Grade(s)

9, 10

Overview

Students will evaluate and submit the paragraph they drafted in the associated during learning activity. They will engage in peer review using the class-generated checklist to ensure that they have utilized best research and writing practices. This activity is the culminating activity for the activity sets associated with standards ELA21.9.24 and ELA21.10.24. 

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 9

ELA21.9.R5

Utilize a writing process which includes planning, revising, editing/peer-editing, and rewriting to create a focused, organized, and coherent piece of writing for a specific purpose and audience.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.9.R5

Vocabulary

  • Writing process
  • Plan
  • Revise
  • Edit
  • Peer-edit
  • Rewrite
  • Focused
  • Organized
  • Coherent
  • Purpose
  • Audience

Knowledge

Students know:
  • The writing process steps are to plan, revise, edit, and rewrite.
  • Editing can be completed by the writer or by a peer.
  • Peer-editing skills.
  • Completed writing projects should be focused, organized, and coherent, and written for a specific purpose and intended audience.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Plan, revise, edit, and rewrite to create a focused, organized, and coherent piece of writing.
  • Compose a writing piece for a specific purpose and intended audience.
  • Engage in the peer-editing process.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Writing is a process that requires multiple drafts, edits, and versions.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 9

ELA21.9.24

Utilize responsible and ethical research practices to write clear, coherent products with a command of language suitable for a particular target audience and purpose.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.9.24

Vocabulary

  • Responsible research practices
  • Ethical research practices
  • Command of language
  • Target audience
  • Purpose

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Responsible and ethical research practices.
  • Writing skills.
  • The conventions of standard, formal English.
  • Strategies to modify writing for a particular audience and purpose.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Write clear, coherent documents using responsible and ethical research practices.
  • Incorporate conventions of formal, standard English into clear, coherent writing products.
  • Modify writing to be suitable for a particular audience and purpose.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Ethical and responsible research practices are necessary when writing academic and workplace documents.
  • The conventions of standard, formal English are necessary for effective academic and workplace communication.
  • Written language should be adapted, depending on the audience and purpose.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 10

ELA21.10.R5

Utilize a writing process which includes planning, revising, editing/peer-editing, and rewriting to create a focused, organized, and coherent piece of writing for a specific purpose and audience.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.10.R5

Vocabulary

  • Writing process
  • Plan
  • Revise
  • Edit
  • Peer-edit
  • Rewrite
  • Focused
  • Organized
  • Coherent
  • Purpose
  • Audience

Knowledge

Students know:
  • The writing process steps are to plan, revise, edit, and rewrite.
  • Editing can be completed by the writer or by a peer.
  • Peer-editing skills.
  • Completed writing projects should be focused, organized, and coherent, and written for a specific purpose and intended audience.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Plan, revise, edit, and rewrite to create a focused, organized, and coherent piece of writing.
  • Compose a writing piece for a specific purpose and intended audience.
  • Engage in the peer-editing process.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Writing is a process that requires multiple drafts, edits, and versions.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 10

ELA21.10.24

Utilize responsible and ethical research practices to write clear, coherent products with a command of language suitable for a particular target audience and purpose.

Unpacked Content

UP:ELA21.10.24

Vocabulary

  • Responsible research practices
  • Ethical research practices
  • Command of language
  • Target audience
  • Purpose

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Responsible and ethical research practices.
  • Writing skills.
  • The conventions of standard, formal English.
  • Strategies to modify writing for a particular audience and purpose.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Write clear, coherent documents using responsible and ethical research practices.
  • Incorporate conventions of formal, standard English into clear, coherent writing products.
  • Modify writing to be suitable for a particular audience and purpose.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Ethical and responsible research practices are necessary when writing academic and workplace documents.
  • The conventions of standard, formal English are necessary for effective academic and workplace communication.
  • Written language should be adapted, depending on the audience and purpose.

Phase

After/Explain/Elaborate
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • The student will utilize responsible and ethical research practices to write clear, coherent products with a command of language suitable for a particular target audience and purpose.
  • The student will participate in a peer review process to revise and edit their writing.

Activity Details

  1. The teacher will assign students to pairs or groups of three for peer review. 
  2. Students will use their class checklist to peer review paragraphs.
  3. The teacher will allow time for the students to conference with each other, explain their reviews, and make suggestions for improvement. 
  4. Students will revise their paragraphs and submit them for teacher assessment. 
Assessment Strategies

Assessment Strategies

  • The teacher will evaluate student participation in the peer review process.
  • The teacher will evaluate the student’s final writing product using the checklist. 

Acceleration

Students may create a presentation or add digital images to accompany their written product. 

 

 

Intervention

  • Students may dictate their sentences for their final draft to a partner or a teacher. 
  • Instead of an in-class peer review, students may work with a resource teacher or a student from their school’s peer tutor program.

Approximate Duration

Total Duration

46 to 60 Minutes

Related Learning Activities

Learning Activity (Before)

Prewriting: Utilizing Best Practices to Write Clear, Coherent Products

Learning Activity (During)

Drafting: Utilizing Best Practices to Write Clear, Coherent Products

Learning Activity (After)

Evaluating: Utilizing Best Practices to Write Clear, Coherent Products

Background and Preparation

Background / Preparation

The teacher should have taught the associated activities on responsible and ethical research practices; clear, coherent writing for audience and purpose; and the prewriting and drafting activities related to this learning activity. The teacher will need to decide how to pair or group students for peer review, whether students will use a digital or printed checklist, and how students will submit their final paragraphs for teacher assessment.

The students should have participated in the associated activities on responsible and ethical research practices; clear, coherent writing for audience and purpose; and the prewriting and drafting activities related to this learning activity.They should have a digital or printed copy of their paragraph completed in the associated during activity and a digital or printed copy of the class-generated checklist for this standard.

 

Materials and Resources

Materials and Resources

Teacher Materials:

Student Materials: 

Digital Tools / Resources

Checklist: Responsible and Ethical Research Practices; Clear, Coherent Languag…
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p2ZfQIHflStPSP222PCmWTJlvEvKhcZxa92MQTcPmxo…

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