As students develop writing and presentation skills, peer feedback is a great way to help them progress in their skills and self-assessment. The key is providing students with a structure for planning and delivering that feedback so it’s helpful and focused on the assignment. That’s where peer-editing checklists come in.
We’ve created peer-feedback graphic organizers that can be used with students from upper elementary through high school. Combine these peer-editing checklists with a sentence-starter handout or writing/editing checklist to maximize student learning through feedback.
Give your students the resources to provide meaningful peer feedback with our free peer-editing checklists. Just fill out the form on this page to get them!
Peer-Feedback Graphic Organizers
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Heart + Hammer (Grades 3-5)
Upper elementary school students are ready to start giving feedback. They have opinions but need help organizing their thoughts and thinking through how to give feedback that is positive and constructive (not just what they think about their peer or their reaction to the drawings).
Use this Heart + Hammer peer-editing checklist to help elementary schoolers organize what they love (heart) and the next steps that their peer could take (hammer). When students are giving feedback, they can use the sentence-starters checklist with their graphic organizer to deliver the feedback.
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T.A.G. Peer-Editing Checklist (Grades 6-8)
By middle school, students have a better grasp on what it means to give and receive feedback. Students can expand their feedback with questions and specific suggestions. Use this T.A.G. graphic organizer to help middle schoolers have a meaningful conversation with their peers.
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SSW (Strength, Suggest, Wonder) (Grades 9-12)
By the time students get to high school, they can analyze peers’ work for how well it aligns with a rubric. This graphic organizer prompts students to identify what they like about their peers’ work, make suggestions for improvement, and provide a question to push their peers’ thinking. Give students the project rubric and this graphic organizer to help shape their feedback.
Additional Worksheets
Sometimes students need additional support to have productive conversations or give writing-specific feedback. Use the sentence starters or writing checklist to help students craft their feedback and give specific writing feedback.
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Start the Conversation Handout
This sentence-starter graphic organizer has sentence starters that students can use to deliver their feedback when they are talking with their peers. Have students plan their feedback by writing out what they will say to start the conversation, ask questions, or deliver constructive feedback.
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Write Strong! Writing Checklist
This is a straightforward checklist that students can use to critique their own writing, e.g., did they end each sentence with punctuation? They can also use it to give basic writing feedback to a peer.
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Help students give focused, constructive feedback by downloading our peer-editing checklists. Just fill out the form on this page to get your free printables.
