Virginia Elliott
NIWP 2010
Things I Have Learned About Revision
1. Let the student read
2. Ask the student where they need help or what they think
about what they have written?
3. Separate writing fluency from conventions.
4. Work on one type of revising strategy at a time.
5. Have student peer share?
6. Ask student what he/she others would ask about the writing? What questions might they have?
7. Grade the process mostly, not just the finished project.
8. Publishing can mean many things—reading in front of the class, reading to someone.
9. Basic revising strategies such as types of questions, snapshot, thoughtshot, explode a minute shrink a century, and make a scene.
10. Have students self edit and then bring back again. He/she can use color to analyze what he is writing—snapshot, thoughtshot, exploding and scene.
Virginia-I love the simple idea of just talking to your students and asking them what they think about what they have written and where they think they need help. Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best.
ReplyDeleteI like that publishing can mean not only having a finished work, but reading/sharing that work with someone else
ReplyDeleteVirginia, I liked your reminder that reading is an important part of writing. How true!
ReplyDeletewell organized ideas.
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