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> Chapter 1 Revision is Picturing Again—Voice, Pictures and Flow; Chapter 2 Identifying the Voice, Pictures, and Flow in Writing; Chapter 3 Crafting the Pictures and Voice in Writing that Fit Your Mind; Chapter 4 What Revision is Not; Chapter 5 Kindling Innate Writing Abilities; Chapter 6 Prewrite with Me; Chapter 7 Revise Words and Phrases with Me; Chapter 8 Revise Body Paragraphs with Me; Chapter 9 Revise Whole Drafts with Me; Chapter 10 Work on Style of Writing with Me; Chapter 11 Nail Down Effective Word Choice with Me; Chapter 12 Fine-Tune Beginnings and Endings with Me; Chapter 13 Call on Your Audience with Me; Chapter 14 Talk About Writing with Me; Chapter 15 Implementing a Mindset for Revision;