Revising (Ideas)

Today for our mini lesson the focus was on the revising of ideas, of a piece of writing. Revising consists of helping the students on improving student writing. To accomplish this students should be rethinking, rewriting and refining their writing. With this application of their knowledge of language skills and sentence structure in order to become better writers. 

When we are teaching our students these things should always be at the forefront, modelling, collaborative practice, guided practice and independent practice.  Once these attributes are included in the lesson plan the creation of good writers will be an easy task.

To help students remember the process of revising I use a writer's revise chart.  Since we were teaching Grade Two students I changed the word substitute to switch, to make the word more student appropriate.


This entire class was entertaining and exciting, my colleagues used different strategies to help students in the process on becoming good writer.  One group had a song referring to sentence fluency, the use of transitional words were done by another group which help me remember there are different transitional words for each genre of writing.

Janelle Melchor