Grade 2 Spring — Opinion Writing, Pronouns/Adverbs/Prepositions, and Word-Building with Prefixes and Suffixes
Lesson 20 50 min eng.g2.s.lesson_20.peer_edit_round_two

Second Peer-Edit Cycle + Register Check

Skills targeted
Objectives
  • Students conduct a second peer-edit conversation using the 5-move protocol.
  • Students do a register check — confirm their opinion piece uses the appropriate register for its intended audience.
Vocabulary
second passregister checkaudiencepeer editor

Lesson plan

Warm-up

5 min

Audience-name: each child names the intended audience for their published piece (classmates, family, school librarian, principal). Teacher posts a class chart of audiences.

Teacher moves
  • Note audience diversity
  • Bridge to register-check

Direct instruction

10 min

Today you do TWO things. First, run the 5-move peer-edit protocol with a DIFFERENT partner than last time. Move 1 listen, move 2 compliment-with-quote, move 3 question, move 4 suggestion, move 5 writer decides. Second, do a REGISTER CHECK on your near-final draft. Read your draft, then look at your audience: classmates? family? principal? Is your register a match? If you're writing to the principal but using 'hey' and 'gonna,' your register is OFF — fix it.

Key examples
  • Notice the IDEA stays the same. Only the register changes.
    model Draft: 'Hey, the school should let us bring snacks to the library because it's gonna make reading more fun.' Audience: principal. Register-check: 'Hey' and 'gonna' are informal. Fix: 'I think our school should allow students to bring snacks to the library. It would make reading more enjoyable.'
    prompt Register-check example.
Checks for understanding
  • What's a register check?
  • Name your audience.
Media
M-2-S-WR-20-A Chart
Anchor card titled 'REGISTER CHECK — 3 STEPS': 1. READ your draft aloud. 2. NAME your audience (friend / family / teache

Anchor card titled 'REGISTER CHECK — 3 STEPS': 1. READ your draft aloud. 2. NAME your audience (friend / family / teacher / principal / public). 3. MATCH the register — fix any mismatches. Footer cue: 'Same idea, different audience, different language.' Print-ready 8.5x11, dyslexic-friendly font.

Guided practice

20 min
Tasks
  • Run a 5-move peer edit with a new partner. Audio-record it (optional). 7 minutes each direction.
    scaffold MG-10 bookmark
  • Apply at least one suggestion from your peer editor with the green pencil. Annotate the move name.
    scaffold Revision-moves bookmark
  • Do a register check: read your draft, check against your audience, fix any mismatches.
Media
M-2-S-WR-20-B Illustration
Reference image of a Grade-2 draft with two register fixes shown in green pencil: 'Hey' crossed out, 'Hello' written abo

Reference image of a Grade-2 draft with two register fixes shown in green pencil: 'Hey' crossed out, 'Hello' written above; 'gonna' crossed out, 'will' written above. Margin sticky-note reads 'REGISTER FIX — audience is principal.' Print-ready, classroom annotation style.

Formative assessment

3 min
Exit ticket
  • Name one register fix you made. Quote the BEFORE and AFTER.
scoring Real register fix with clear BEFORE/AFTER = mastery; weak fix = practicing; no fix = reteach (if no fix was needed, write 'register matches'.)

Closure

2 min
Moves
  • Thank your peer editor.
  • Predict: tomorrow we publish.

Homework

10 min
Tasks
  • Read your fully-revised draft aloud at home. Ask: 'Does it sound like the audience I'm writing for?'

Exercises in this lesson

eng.g2.s.ex_44
Run the 5-move protocol with a NEW partner. After: name the move you decided to APPLY and the move you decided to DECLINE.
 peer edit round two · diff 4
eng.g2.s.ex_45
Read your draft aloud. Identify your audience. Check for register mismatches. Fix any with green pencil. Annotate 'REGISTER FIX' OR...
 register check draft · diff 3

Differentiation

Scaffolds
  • Bookmark + MG-9 anchor at desk
  • Audience-icon card at desk
  • Adult-facilitated peer edit
Extensions
  • Audio-record your peer-edit. Listen back. Did you skip moves?
  • Be a peer editor for a 3-paragraph piece.
English Learners
  • Bilingual bookmark
  • Pre-rehearsed compliment phrases
Ieps 504s
  • Audio-only peer comments (no live conversation)
  • Adult-mediated register check

Teacher notes

This is the second peer-edit cycle and should run more smoothly than the first. Watch for children who are now over-applying suggestions (accepting every peer-editor move) — remind them the WRITER decides. The register check is a quick L.2.3.a application — most children's pieces will be classmate-audience and already in appropriate informal register, so the check itself might be a 30-second 'register matches' confirmation. That's fine.