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Writing Workshop 10 (continued)
8 SpringBoard® Writing Workshop with Grammar Activities Grade 6
f. Read the letter together, making revisions as necessary. Keep in mind your purpose and your audience when considering the tone.
g. Add the elements of an informal letter and edit for mistakes.
Peer Review
2. Upon completing your letter, you will evaluate and provide feedback
for another group’s letter, based on criteria established in the learning targets and the scoring guide. Use the steps below to guide your revision of the group’s letter. Make notes and prepare to share your thoughts with the authors of the letter.
a. Circle the audience of the letter. What do you know about the audience based on the information provided in the letter?
b. Identify the purpose of the letter. How do the writers establish a clear purpose in the opening paragraph of the letter? If this is missing, what suggestions would you make?
c. Highlight the ideas/feelings conveyed in the letter. Are these ideas expressed clearly? If not, where is there confusion or vague/misleading expressions?
d. Underline the information used to support the ideas in the letter. Are those details specific and connected to the ideas? How do those details help the reader understand the ideas better?
e. Draw a box around the final paragraph of the letter. How does this paragraph provide a sense of closure to the letter? If the paragraph lacks closure, what suggestions would you make?
f. Place a checkmark next to the date, salutation, closing, and signature. If any of these elements is not present, mark the draft where elements are missing.
g. Finally, review the sentences for sentence pattern variety. Note whether sentences all begin in the same way, and whether the sentences are all of the same length.
3. Share your written and verbal feedback with your peers. Revising/Editing
4. After receiving feedback from your peers, make any necessary changes to your letter. Produce a final, polished draft to submit to your teacher.
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