1st Edition

Empowering Students to Write and Re-write Standards-Based Strategies for Middle and High School Teachers

By Warren Combs Copyright 2010
    222 Pages
    by Eye On Education

    240 Pages
    by Eye On Education

    Give your students the confidence to continuously improve their writing. In Empowering Students to Write and Re-write: Standards-Based Strategies for Middle and High School Teachers, author and educator Warren Combs provides teachers with detailed strategies and lesson plans, along with real student writing samples.

    Review true-to-life scripts for conversations between teachers and students, and use or create student-friendly response and final evaluation forms. Also, learn a simple system for setting student expectations to help them reach curriculum standards.

    Combs describes effective routines of formative self-assessment, and shows teachers how to form a professional learning team with their colleagues using the 6-session professional learning guide.

    Teachers will help their students:

    • Self-assess their progress with accuracy
    • Revise partial and whole drafts
    • Kindle their innate writing abilities
    • Cultivate a mindset for revision

    “This book is written in a teacher-friendly mannger and has practical strategies for the teaching of revision.” --Cindi Rigsbee NC Teacher of the Year

    Revision Is Picturing Again—Voice, Pictures and Flow
    Identifying the Voice, Pictures, and Flow in Writing
    Crafting the Pictures and Voice in Writing that Fit Your Mind
    What Revision is Not
    Kindling Innate Writing Abilities
    Prewrite with Me
    Revise Words and Phrases with Me: An Introduction to Revising First Drafts
    Revise Body Paragraphs with Me
    Revise Whole Drafts with Me
    Work on Style of Writing with Me
    Nail Down Effective Word Choice with Me
    Fine-Tune Beginnings and Endings with Me
    Call on Your Audience with Me
    Talk About Writing with Me
    Implementing a Mindset for Revision

    Biography

    Combs, Warren