Editing exists in kids' schools, too!

I received my child's book report evaluation from her school and I must say (not just because she's my child) but she did a very impressive job. Even in school settings, there is an editing process going on.

My child prepared a book report for her class and she presented a couple of weeks ago. She brought with her a 'mini television' which her dad made out of cardboard and paper rolls (yes, you can make a television out of it- only thing is, you have to provide the picture tube). Being an artist herself, she drew pictures of the main highlights of her story on paper; coloured them; and glued the ends together and voila!- a whole reel of movie was made.

Looking at the evaluation sheet she brought home from school, her teacher created a criteria on which her students were evaluated on. The criteria served as the teacher's guidelines in editing the different presentations. In this situation, we can consider the students to be the 'authors' and the teacher the lone 'editor.'

So here is an excerpt of the criteria used by the teacher for the book presentations:

WRITING
 1) Visual
-Coloured drawings accurately represents the written content. (3 marks)
-Coloured drawings somewhat represent written content, lacking detail. (2 marks)
-Drawings lack colour and detail and/or do not represent the written content. (1 mark)

2) Writing
-Writes complete sentences and includes punctuation and conventions. Proof of editing/revisions. (3 marks)
-Writing lacks sentence structure and does not provide adequate proof of editing and revisions. (2 marks)
-No sentence structure, lack of details. No proof of editing. (1 mark)


The criteria is a long list, too many to mention. Overall, my child did a great job! She got 29 out of 30. The only comment her 'editor' wrote on the paper was, she just needs to shorten it by selecting the most important events.

I think we all can relate to that!