Ashley Matson

These forms provide steps by step instructions for improving writing. They help students disect their own writing and improve it based on need (clarity and coherence, paragraph structure, subject-verb agreement). Students write individual sentence as they exist in their own writing on the right. Then, following step by step instructions, students will be able to transform their own writing into grammatically improved pieces. This could also be used in partner work or a student draft supplied by

Students love choice!!! Provide an article or allow students to choose one of interest to them and then move through the process of analyzing the nonfiction using this "blitz". Each element has a challenging "genius work" element that can motivate students to stretch their thinking or be assigned by the instructor to heighten the complexity.