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REVISE AND EDIT Review your draft.

The revision and editing steps give you a chance to look carefully at your writing and

make changes. Work with a partner to determine whether you have explained your
ideas clearly to readers. Use these questions to help you evaluate and improve your
newspaper article.

PURPOSE/ ORGANIZATION EVIDENCE LANGUAGE/ CONVENTIONS
FOCUS VOCABULARY
Does my article Does my Does my main Have I used Are all words
have a clear introduction idea relate to the transition words spelled correctly?
main idea? grab readers’ photograph? to connect ideas
attention? and provide a Have I used a
Does the topic Does the text smooth flow variety of words
of my article Are my evidence I from paragraph to make my
relate to the paragraphs in provided support to paragraph? writing more
photograph the best logical my main idea? interesting to
I chose? order? readers?

Did I use
appropriate
capitalization of
proper nouns?

PUBLISH Share your work.

Create a Finished Copy Make a final copy of your newspaper article. Be sure to

include the photograph you chose. Consider these options to share your article.

1 Collect the articles and combine them to create a newspaper about
the Great Depression.

2 Display your photograph as you read your article aloud to the rest
of your class.

3 Gather together with other students who chose the same photograph
and compare and contrast the information you included in your articles.

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