Peer Review Groups
Peer Review helps students learn how to talk about and revise writing. In this collaborative learning environment, students take turns reading each other's work, commenting on structure, format, content, and overall coherence. After the peer review session, students use their classmates' comments along with their own ideas to revise their written work.
Where is this in the Writing Process: Step 3
Explicitly Teach: Explain. Connect. Model. Practice.
Cycle of Independence: I do. We do. They do. You do.
Origin: Jonathan LeMaster developed LiteracyTA's Peer Review from his experience at San Diego State University. While earning his Master's degree in Rhetoric and Writing Studies, Ellen Quandahl--Jonathan's rhetoric and writing studies professor--asked her students to workshop their papers. This experience became the inspiration behind Peer Review Groups.
Peer Review Groups Step-By-Step Process
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Literacy Standards In Action
We've mapped our literacy lessons and reading, speaking, and writing skills to state standards, Common Core, and NGSS. The standards are "the what" to teach. Our lessons are "the how" to meet the expectations defined by the standards. Click on the links below to view our quick reference table that maps standards to literacy lessons.
