ELA Essays Peer Edits Collection

"ELA Essays Peer Edits Collection" is an ideal activity for secondary students and classrooms looking to improve their students' essay writing and editing skills. This comprehensive set of peer edit worksheets spans four fundamental essay formats: Argument, Research, Literary Analysis, and Narrative writing. Thoughtfully crafted for adaptability, these worksheets are compatible with any essay assignment and existing rubric.

The objective of this resources is to teach students about the writing process while working with a partner and analyzing in-depth their classmates' work. Students will learn important editing and publishing skills using these seamlessly created step-by-step peer review worksheets. Your students will be amazed at how much these review worksheets improve their writing!

These user-friendly worksheets guide students through the process of assessing their peers' essays while saving precious classroom time (an excellent activity for substitute teacher days!). Students will begin by finding a partner to exchange papers with, then following our clearly defined directions to review each others essay drafts two times, first for grammar and a second time for content tied to the requirements of the assigned essay type. They will be asked to provide feedback via checkmarks, short answer, and rubric review. This is a great activity for teachers frustrated that students are "not reading the rubric." This peer review requires them to understand it! Each review also includes a rubric linked to the Common Core Speaking and Listening Standard 1, ensuring a smooth grading process for educators looking to grade the difficult-to-assess idea of teamwork and working together.

This resource includes the following:

1. 1. An argumentative essay peer review activity

2. 2. A research essay peer review activity

3. 3. A literary analysis essay peer review activity

4. 4. A narrative writing peer review activity

Although this resource can be fitted for any secondary Language Arts classroom, it has been carefully designed to work best in grades 9, 10, 11, and 12. The included teacher-review rubric is subtly but specifically tied to Common Core ELA Standards for Speaking and Listening 1. The Language of Educational Art’s "ELA Essays Peer Edits Collection" is provided as a print-ready, bookmarked, and adjustable PDF file.

This resource contains 8 Pages.