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Teach Collaborative Revision with Google Docs
Revision is a critical piece of the writing process—and of your classroom curriculum. Now, Google Docs has partnered with Weekly Reader’s Writing for Teens magazine to help you teach it in a meaningful and practical way.
The sharing features of Google Docs enable you and your students to decide exactly who can access and edit documents. You’ll find that Google Docs helps promote group work and peer editing skills, and that it helps to fulfill the stated goal of The National Council of Teachers of English, which espouses writing as a process and encourages multiple revisions and peer editing.
On this page, you will find several reproducible PDF articles from Writing magazine filled with student-friendly tips and techniques for revision. You'll also find a teacher’s guide that provides you with ideas for how to use these materials with Google Docs to create innovative lesson plans about revision for your classroom.
Getting Started
1) Download a step-by-step tutorial [pdf] for Google Docs.
2) Learn about the comments and revision features of Google Docs [pdf].
3) Download, print, and share the following articles [pdf] with your students:
4) Download our Educators Guide: Teaching Revision with Google Docs
After reviewing our activity ideas and Google Docs tutorials, you may develop your own lesson plans and ideas. We want to hear from you! We invite you to share your curriculum ideas with the Google Educators community through our Google for Educators Discussion Group.
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Writing magazine is a Weekly Reader classroom periodical for middle and high school students. It has been named as one of the top four magazines in educational publishing by the Association of Educational Publishers in 2007. Writing features practical how-to articles, author profiles, and student writing. Its goal: To help students build skills in writing across the curriculum. Each issue is supplemented with a Teacher's Guide and a literary blog that links content to state and national standards. Learn more on revision from Writing magazine.
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