The purpose of writing is to impact readers. This post explores strategies for helping students of all ages understand the bias that lives in writing and how to express ideas with clarity and intention.
Category: revision
Ranking Student Work: A Collaborative Unit Launch
Challenging students to rank peer writing was the perfect way to kick off a new unit.
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Exploring Identity in Writing Workshop: Identity Webs as a Conferring Tool
Add a new tool to your conferring toolbox: students' identity webs. Identity webs can help students bring more of themselves to their writing.
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Don’t Forget About Craft! 2024 Classroom Slice of Life Story Challenge
Leah shares 3 simple craft moves and ready-to-go examples to invigorate student slice of life writing.
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Revision at Work: Is This Good?
Do you ever hear the question, "Is this good?"
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Writing on Students’ Work in Progress: Resetting Our Workshop Practices
I used to write on my students’ writing. NOW I believe if I’m the person writing down what I think a child should write, then I remove lots of that child’s agency.
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Be the first reader of your writing!
It's important to take a beat before sharing one's writing. With practice and reminders, children can learn how to become the first readers of their work.
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Recording, Revision and Repetition: Empowering Multilingual Writers
Recording for revision, encouraging translanguaging, and repetition are useful strategies to exalt and empower multilingual writers. As teachers of multilingual students, encouraging translanguaging and recording as revision is akin to telling students: every aspect of you is valued. Every aspect of you is important.
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Advice for the Perfectionists in Writing Workshop
Do you consider yourself to be a perfectionist? Are there students in your classroom who might be described as perfectionists?
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Spicing Up Revision
During the revision phase of the writing process, I find that many writers will often 'tinker' rather than really revise for meaning. Perhaps you've see similar behaviors in your middle school writers? Read on to learn a few tips for spicing up revision!
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Reimagine Notebook Entries Using a Mentor Text
Using a mentor text can be a little like taking a course from a published writer- we can allow him or her to teach us how to be stronger writers. This can certainly happen with our drafts... but we can also do this work in our notebooks. Oftentimes, doing so can free young writers up to do larger-scale revision. Here's one way I tried that...
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Revising for Meaning
At the heart of all great writing is meaning. Writers select details carefully and deliberately, depending on the message we wish to convey to readers. How can we let meaning guide revision? Read here about a few ways...
