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Help students revise captions with a clear, repeatable process. This one-page, printable sheet guides partners to check tense, accuracy, context, credit, and basic style before writing a cleaner second draft. What’s included: Peer checklist with boxes for:

Journalism: Peer Review for Caption Writing

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present-tense first sentence, specific who and what (plus where or when if needed), correct names and titles, past-tense context or outcome, no opinion, AP style basics, and a proper parenthetical credit Quick fact check lines for names, titles or grades, stats or results, and location Feedback prompts for two strengths (Glow) and two suggestions (Grow), plus a short read-aloud check and word count Optional mini-rating strip (3–2–1) for five areas: accuracy and identification, sentence 1 description, sentence 2 context, credit, and style Rewrite section with space for: Sentence 1 in present tense, Sentence 2 in past tense, and the photo credit in parentheses Header fields for writer, reviewer, photo ID, and date How to use Students draft a two-sentence caption for a photo. Partners complete the checklist and fact check lines, then note Glow and Grow.

If you choose, partners circle a quick 3–2–1 rating in each area. Partners write a revised caption in the rewrite boxes and return it to the writer. File type PDF, 1 page, ready to print

Designed for grades 9th – 12th.

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