Slide 1: Peer-Editing What is peer-editing? What is the purpose of peer-editing? How do I peer-edit?
Slide 2: What is peer-editing? • Using peers (other students) to read, help you revise, and find mistakes in your writing. • Usually done with one partner.
Slide 3: What is the purpose of peer-editing? • Help you find things in your story that don’t make sense or that are confusing. • Help you find mistakes in spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc… • To give you an opinion of your story from someone your age.
Slide 4: How do I peer-edit? • Read the paper/story one time just to read it.
Slide 5: How do I peer-edit? • Read the story a second time and circle any spelling mistakes, fragments, or run-ons, or confusing sentences. • Use the proofreading marks when possible. • Use any color pen or pencil except PURPLE.
Slide 6: How do I peer-edit? • Talk to your partner about parts that you didn’t understand or that may be slightly confusing. • Give suggestions about how to fix problems.
Slide 7: How do I peer-edit? • Talk to your partner about things in the story that were good. • Ex: great idea for a story, great details, perfect paragraphs, etc…
Slide 8: When you are peerediting, DO NOT… • insult someone’s hard work. • tell them that it is great and nothing could be better. • tell them only negative things
Slide 9: What does the author do after peer-editing? • Think carefully about what your partner told you. • Respect their opinions, but you don’t have to agree with everything they tell you. • Correct mistakes using a dictionary, thesaurus, or other available materials.
Slide 10: Read this poster and choose which rule you think is the most useful.