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📖 2nd Grade · ELAW.2.5Unit 5: Narrative writing

Revising and editing

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🎯 Objective: Students revise and edit with a checklist.

Lesson outline

  1. Revise with a checklist (details, order, ending).
  2. Edit for capitals, punctuation, spelling.
  3. Publish.
  4. Exit: one change you made.

Lesson 6 of 6 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

W.2.5

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 2 — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Recount a well-elaborated event with details, temporal words and a sense of closure

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

📚 All 2nd Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Narrative writing”

  1. Generating story ideas
  2. Planning a story
  3. Drafting with details
  4. Temporal words
  5. Endings
  6. Revising and editing

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