Synopses & Reviews
"How can I get my students to revise their writing?" If this is one of your most frequently asked questions, then this is the book for you - a guide to specific strategies you can teach to enable your students to re-see and re-shape their writing on multiple levels, from word choice to organization.
Longtime writer and writing teacher Georgia Heard knows firsthand what a daunting task revision can seem to both students and teachers. First, she addresses students' confusion about the differences between editing and revision. She shows you how to reassure your students that revision is not an indicator of bad writing, but an integral part of the writing process. Then Heard provides ready-to-use strategies that take the mystery out of teaching revision and help even the most reluctant writers revise.
Using three main Revision Toolboxes - Words, Structure, and Voice - she offers dozens of specific revision tools to inspire students to revisit their work. In addition, Heard includes:
- a "Revision Lesson" for each tool to show you how to teach that strategy
- techniques to help students reread their writing from different points of view
- conferring techniques to guide you when instructing individual students
- revision examples from students and from Heard's own writing
- "Revision-at-a-Glance" - a quick-reference sheet for students on every revision tool.
Make revision inviting. Make it a part of your students' writing process. Then watch as they fine tune and improve-and the real pleasures of writing and teaching begin.
Synopsis
Heard provides ready-to-use strategies that take the mystery out of teaching revision and help even the most reluctant writers revise.
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. 128-129) and index.
Synopsis
"How can I get my students to revise their writing?" If this is one of your most frequently asked questions, then this is the book for you - a guide to specific strategies you can teach to enable your students to re-see and re-shape their writing on multiple levels, from word choice to organization. Longtime writer and writing teacher Georgia Heard knows firsthand what a daunting task revision can seem to both students and teachers. First, she addresses students' confusion about the differences between editing and revision. She shows you how to reassure your students that revision is not an indicator of bad writing, but an integral part of the writing process. Then Heard provides ready-to-use strategies that take the mystery out of teaching revision and help even the most reluctant writers revise. Using three main Revision Toolboxes - Words, Structure, and Voice - she offers dozens of specific revision tools to inspire students to revisit their work. In addition, Heard include
About the Author
Georgia Heardreceived her M.F.A. in writing from Columbia University. She is a founding member of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project in New York City. Currently, she visits schools and speaks at conferences in the United States, Canada, and around the world inspiring students and educators with her workshops and speeches. She is the author of numerous professional books on writing including her most recent A Place for Wonder: Reading and Writing Nonfiction in the Primary Grades, as well as: The Revision Toolbox: Teaching Techniques that Work ; Writing Toward Home: Tales and Lessons to Find Your Way; For the Good of the Earth and Sun: Teaching Poetry; Climb Inside a Poem: Reading and Writing Poetry Across the School Year (coauthored with Lester Laminack); and Awakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle School which was cited by Instructor magazine as "One of the Twelve Books Every Teacher Should Read." She is also the author of several books for children including: Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems; This Place I Know: Poems of Comfort; Creatures of Earth, Sea and Sky: Animal Poems; and Songs of Myself: An Anthology of Poems and Art.
Table of Contents
Transforming Our "Revision Vision"
Revision Toolboxes
Revision Toolbox: Words
Revision Toolbox: Structure
Revision Toolbox: Voice
Deep Reading
Revision Conferences
Revision Centers Appendixes: Revision Survey Revision Strategies at a Glance Process/Progress Revision Sheet Quotes About Revision Peer Conferring Revision Questions Revision Symbols and Devices Revision of My Poem "Dragonfly" Student Revision Examples