Common Core Standards

Grade 7

Writing W.7.5

With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1-3 up to and including grade 7 here.)

This standard is exactly the same as is eighth grade counterpart, so why not scoot along over there to check out what we were planning on saying for this standard? We promise that the eighth grade standards won't mind if you're only here for seventh grade stuff—for the most part. (You might want to watch out for the fruit punch; who knows what they've put in there for the non-eighth grade crowd.)

Example 1

Here's a lesson to use along with any writing assignment you like.

Create a "revision factory" with specific peer or individual revision tasks for students to perform such as checking for fluency, conventions, ideas and content, and organization. Have students choose a paper they have already written and apply the tasks to the paper in order to create substantial revisions and demonstrate growth. Teachers may edit the entire paper for conventions and point out specific areas of struggle and/or errors.

Aligned Resources

Teacher Guides

More standards from Grade 7 - Writing

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