| A | B |
| drafting | writing your first composition by elaborating on the basic ideas from your prewriting graphic organizer |
| revising | rereading your writing carefully and thinking about how you can make it better by rearranging, adding, or omitting certain parts |
| conferring | working with teachers or peers to discuss your writing |
| critiquing | reading another person’s writing carefully and thinking of helpful feedback to share |
| suggestions | ideas to help improve |
| accurate | precise, correct |
| tape diagram | a drawing that looks like a segment of tape, used to show number relationships; also known as a bar model |
| known parts | the information in a word problem that is given to you |
| unknown parts | the information in a word problem that you need to solve for |
| variable | a letter that stands for an unknown number in a math problem |