Peer assessing writing

This week, we have been looking at story openers. Yesterday in small groups we continued a story in the same style as the writer. Today we chose a different story opener and planned the next part of the story. After our writing session, we read a peer's piece of writing and put a dot in the margin if there were any spelling, grammar or punctuation errors. We all took our time and found the feedback very useful. We were able to quickly identify a mistake and correct it.