Standards Map

English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 2

Strand - Writing

Cluster - Production and Distribution of Writing

[W.2.5] - With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.

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Resources:

• Editing
  Component of writing and preparing presentations concerned chiefly with improving clarity, organization, conciseness, and appropriateness of expression relative to task, purpose, and audience; often involves replacing or deleting words, phrases, and sentences that are awkward or confusing and correcting errors in spelling, usage, mechanics, and grammar. See Revising, Rewriting
• Revising
  Component of writing and preparing presentations concerned chiefly with reworking a text in light of task, purpose, and audience considerations. Compared to editing, revising is a larger-scale activity often associated with the overall substance and structure of a text. See Rewriting.

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Predecessor Standards:

• W.1.5
  With guidance and support from adults, focus on a topic, respond to questions and suggestions from peers, and add details to strengthen writing as needed.

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Successor Standards:

• W.3.5
  Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.

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Same Level Standards:

• L.2.6
  Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, activities in the grade 2 curriculum, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives to describe. (See grade 2 Reading Literature Standard 4 and Reading Informational Text Standard 4 on applying knowledge of vocabulary to reading; see grade 2 Writing Standard 5 and Speaking and Listening Standard 4 on strengthening writing and presentations by applying knowledge of vocabulary.)