Prepare to Share

Editing & Revising
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You’ll need a piece of writing that you’re going to edit and get ready
to publish. Get the draft you’re working on now.
For Asteroids: Get your Dart and Atmosphere Drafts, Start+Finish
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Discuss: This sentence is actually two sentences. Can you find where
the missing period should go?
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Now, look through your writing. Check the end of every sentence to
make sure it ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation mark.
If it doesn’t, you can add one.
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Discuss: Where are the missing capital letters?
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Check the start of every sentence, and all proper nouns, to make
sure they begin with a capital letter. If any don’t, you can change the
letter.
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Discuss: Where is the spelling mistake in this sentence?
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Now, get your writing. Use all the spelling strategies you know to help
you spell your words. You can also use resources in your classroom
to help you if you’re not sure how to spell a word.
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Discuss: What part of this sentence doesn’t sound right?
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Now read your writing to check to make sure it sounds right. You can
read in your head, or whisper read to yourself. If you find a part that
doesn’t sound right, you can fix your sentence.
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Recopy your work in your best handwriting.
For Researching Asteroids: get your Final Draft Worksheets
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Carefully tear the bibliography page off of your research packet.
Use it as the last page of your article. Staple all your final pages
together to create your final article.
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Prepare to Share
Editing & Revising
4.7 (11 reviews)

Students will...

Print Prep
  • edit their writing for punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and usage.

  • recopy their story onto a final copy, either by hand or digitally.

  • assemble their final article.

Before this lesson...

Students should have completed Lessons 1-5 of this unit.
Article Final Draft worksheet 1 per student
Article Final Draft (digital) worksheet 1 per student
Article Draft from previous lesson
Use the Article Draft (Introduction, DART draft, Atmosphere Draft, Conclusion) from previous lesson.
1 per student
Research Packet from previous lesson
Use the Research Packet (Bibliography, Glossary, Source 1, Source 2) from previous lesson.
1 per student
Stapler
1 per class
Prep Instructions
  • Students will need to bring their completed work from the previous lessons to this lesson.

  • Decide if you want students to create their final draft on paper or digitally. Students can make a copy of the digital worksheet if they will be typing their final draft.

  • If time does not allow for recopying, students can edit their first draft and share without recopying their writing. If you choose not to have students recopy, no additional printouts are required for this lesson.

Standards

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Introduction

5 mins

Writing Activity

30 mins

Extend this lesson

Activity

Activity

A choice board of ways to support students in sharing their writing can be found here .

Partner Activity

Partner Activity

Students can leave feedback for each other’s writing using these feedback slips .

Explore

Explore

What will your next nonfiction article be about? What topics can you think of that you would want to write about next?

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Investigating Asteroids Lesson 6: Prepare to Share

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