Peer+Editing

=Peer Editing= Stages of Writing - Drafting, Revisioning, Editing Aspect of Writing - Meaning, Form, Style, Conventions

Students helping each other out is amazing. They very quickly learn appropriate feedback, but they also learn to read other students styles. Most classrooms agree to a set of criteria for feedback such as: 1. Only add suggestions 2. Use a different colour for your additions in line writing. 3. Provide a positive comment, suggestion for improvement, and another positive item.

Here are three examples experiences with Peer Editing: (Providing Feedback on content) 1. Another idea we had was that if you were bullied and you told someone you got awarded or something like that for it so that bullies might start to stop because you'll know what to do the next time they say or do anything to them. Also a lot of people would start to tell people about it and the amount of bullies should come down eventually.

2. what (Capital) is mad cow desiese? Mad cow desiese is a brain desiese that is mostly caused by farmers feeding there(their) cows (goats) chicken feed that has a beef type something in it. this(Capital) disease will cause the human brain to get damaged when eating it. the reason that farmers feed this to there cows is because it is much cheaper than cow food stuff.

3. Your report was very smart and insightful. With a few spelling mistakes and some capitals missing, it was very good. You just need to use the spell checker and make sure everything is put into words. I like your ideas you put into this report. Good work, Devin!

Students learn to write for an audience. The audience is not the teacher and they can get many sets of feedback. Students are empowered to become experts. They have to use the language that is being taught in the class as well. "You have a strong opening sentence."

There are many ways to provide peer editing opportunities.

A key concept is that peer editing is NON-Destructive. As a student, do you want another student to 'mess up' your work. NO. Gallery Walk - Students move from computer to computer Walking Computers - Laptops move between students Email Wiki Google Doc / Ether Pad Document Camera - live viewing of student work - write on whiteboard SMART Board - snapshots of student work - visually editing as a class

Additional Resources Check out - http://delicious.com/amboe_k/peerediting

You can also honour their work with a deleted Scenes section....

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