Peer Editing our First Informational Essays!

We completed our mini-lessons on informational essays this week. Our next step was to peer edit in order to receive positive feedback and make appropriate revisions. Peer editing involves students reading their essays aloud as their partner uses a specific checklist based on the expectations in our informational rubric. Students can choose to edit as they go, or take the feedback provided back to their seats to revise independently. Editing and revising is such an important piece of writing that helps us to reflect and grow in our skills...but these skills need to be modeled and practiced often. Below are pictures of our first time around! Next, students will print their final drafts and move on to selecting topics for our second informational essay!

Lindsey gives Will feedback based on our checklist and rubric. 

Jordyn and Liliana work hard to make revisions to their essays. 

Our "Be a Friend" from Merton Williams, Meredith, teams up with Hailey to work on her Titanic essay.