Draft

Use your organizer to write the topic sentence. Tell the person’s name and what he or she did.

Then write the rest of the paragraph using details.

Revise

When you revise a draft, you make your writing better. First, you need to know what a reader thinks of your work. Mario read his paper to a partner.

Then Mario knew he had to make changes. What additional changes can he make?

Now follow these steps to revise your paper.

• 1 DECIDE WHAT TO CHANGE

  Read to a partner. Your partner will ask you questions with who, what, when, where, how, and why. Do you need to add text to develop your ideas?

• 2 MARK YOUR CHANGES

  If you need to add text, use this mark: .