Empowering Students to Write and Re-write

<p>Give your students the confidence to continuously improve their writing. In <i>Empowering Students to Write and Re-write: Standards-Based Strategies for Middle and High School Teachers</i> author and educator Warren Combs provides teachers with detailed strategies and lesson plans along with real student writing samples.</p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p><p>Teachers will help their students:</p><ul> <li>Self-assess their progress with accuracy </li> <li>Revise partial and whole drafts </li> <li>Kindle their innate writing abilities </li> <li>Cultivate a mindset for revision </li> </ul><p>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 </p>