Revising and editing...

During class this week you conferred with peers to make revisions/edits to your narrative story. Discuss this experience in your posting this week. Likes? Dislikes? Would this work in a K-5 classroom? What if you are teaching in a middle/secondary content specific classroom? How can you make changes to implement this practice?
I enjoyed getting feedback about my narrative. Usually I feel like I am being criticized when I get feedback about papers, but the way this format of revising and editing was set up I did not feel criticized. I actually agreed with the comments the people made about my paper, and looked forward to correcting it. I believe the person who revised my paper did not give me as much feedback as the person who edited my paper. The conference with the person who I edited with also made it more clear what I needed to correct on my paper. I really liked getting valid and constructive feedback about my paper. I also enjoyed reading another person's paper to revise. The only thing I did not particularly like was the fact that I wasn't quite sure what to revise for. I think there should've been a little more direction as to what to revise. I found myself trying to edit the paper instead of revise it. Usually when I look over a paper I pay attention to the grammar part and don't really focus on revising.
I believe this method of revising and editing would work well in a k-5 classroom. I believe it would work well, because students would be working together in order to better one anothers work. Teachers would benefit from having students revise and edit one anothers papers so that not all of the work is on them. By editing and revising one another's papers, students would become better at revising and editing. This would help students with their grammar. Students would also learn how to take criticism and would learn how to work with their peers better. I believe having peer revisors and editors in the k-5 classroom is very beneficial. The only thing that would need to be implemented would be to give students more time in the revising and editing stage. Also, the teacher should give students specific things to look for when revising.
I believe this also could be used in a middle/secondary classroom in language arts or maybe even in other content areas where they might be writing a paper. The teacher should just make sure the students know what to look for when revising and editing. She should probably make these students go in a little more depth with their revising and editing then in elementary school, because they will know more grammar and have more revising skills.

Overall, I belive peer revising and editing is beneficial to students in k-5 and middle school. I believe it gives students a chance to work with their peers and it helps students become better at revising and editing. It also can free up some time of the teachers so she won't have such a huge job to fill. I really enjoyed revising and editing other peoples papers and received some useful feedback about my own narrative.