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Writing Workshop 4 (continued)
Revising the Draft
12. Reread your draft and find each detail of the setting. Consider where you might add sensory details to make the setting believable for the reader, and revise as needed.
13. Reread your draft and consider where you might use dialogue to reveal information about the characters and to move the plot along. Revise and add dialogue or substitute text with dialogue. Aim for a minimum of seven sentences of dialogue.
14. Highlight figurative language used in your story. With your partner, decide where you could add more figurative language, and take notes about the effect you hope to achieve. Improve your story by including these ideas for the best effect.
15. Identify the tone you hope to convey in a section or in the whole story. With your partner, find where you can use more precise words, or diction, to better communicate the tone you want to achieve.
16. Look over your story and make sure that you have used four different sentence types: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. Label one example of each in your story.
Peer Review
17. Reread your draft, and use the list of different elements of a good short story to check your work so far. Take notes on any missing elements, and discuss areas where you or your partner agree that you need to revise. Make a plan for revision.
18. Join your other partner pair in sharing and responding to thoughts and suggestions about your writing. Use their feedback on your story to help you discover additional ideas for revision.
19. Use your notes and the feedback from your writing discussions as you revise your short story.
Editing
20. Edit your story to correct errors and perfect your formatting, and prepare your work for publication.
16 SpringBoard® Writing Workshop with Grammar Activities Grade 7
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