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How do you make sure that a reader can read and understand your writing?

How do you make sure that a reader can read and understand your writing?. In this lesson, you will learn how to correct grammar and spelling mistakes in your writing by rereading and fixing mistakes as you find them. Writing Process. 1. 2. 3. Generate Ideas. Write Drafts. Revise & Edit.

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How do you make sure that a reader can read and understand your writing?

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  1. How do you make sure that a reader can read and understand your writing?

  2. In this lesson, you will learn how to correct grammar and spelling mistakes in your writing by rereading and fixing mistakes as you find them.

  3. Writing Process 1 2 3 Generate Ideas Write Drafts Revise & Edit

  4. Think about the people, places, or activities in your life that make you happy. Pick one thing to focus on. Describe what that thing is and how it makes you happy.

  5. Trying to look for lots of different types of mistakes at the same time! Is this word spelled right? Does a comma go here? And a capital letter? I’m overwhelmed!

  6. Reread your writing. Look only for spelling mistakes. Fix those. 1 Reread again. Look only for grammar and punctuation mistakes. Fix those. 2 Ask yourself questions like, “Is this one complete thought?” and “Are my sentences written correctly?” 3

  7. Are all the words spelled correctly? Do any words look funny? exhausted buzzing 1 I was exausted but still sitting on my couch working at 8 PM. Suddenly my phone started buzing on the table. “Who is bothering me!?” I angrily thought to myself. I looked at my phone and saw “Mom” light up on the screen. I smiled. “Hey Mom, what’s up? I asked. My mom is someone very important in my life. She’s somebody that can make me happy even when Im having a bad day.

  8. Is this one complete thought? Are my sentences written correctly? 2 I was exhausted but still sitting on my couch working at 8 PM. Suddenly my phone started buzzing on the table. “Who is bothering me!?” I angrily thought to myself. I looked at my phone and saw “Mom” light up on the screen. I smiled. “Hey Mom, what’s up? I asked. My mom is someone very important in my life. She’s somebody that can make me happy even when Im having a bad day. ” I’m

  9. Remember to ask yourself questions like, “Is this one complete thought?” and “Are my sentences written correctly?” 3 Are my sentences written correctly? Is this one complete thought?

  10. Reread your writing. Look only for spelling mistakes. Fix those. 1 Reread again. Look only for grammar and punctuation mistakes. Fix those. 2 Ask yourself questions like, “Is this one complete thought?” and “Are my sentences written correctly?” 3

  11. In this lesson, you have learned how to correct grammar and spelling mistakes in your writing by rereading and fixing mistakes as you find them.

  12. Read the prompt below. Using the steps from this lesson, fix the spelling and grammar mistakes in the writing you did for the last lesson. Think about things you own that have special meaning for you. Pick one to focus on. Describe that object and why it has special meaning for you.

  13. Follow the steps in this lesson to find the spelling and grammar mistakes in the paragraph below. • My mom and i might not always gets along, but she makes me happy. She lisens to my problems even if its not a good time for her, cooks my favorite foods, and she sends me funny text messages threwout the day. She is great!

  14. Reread your own writing for spelling and grammar mistakes. Correct them as you find them.

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