Katherine Bomer hosted a session on fabulous revision strategies for students in grades K-3 at the TCRWP Saturday Reunion yesterday. I haven't synthesized my notes from that part of her presentation yet, but did type-up my notes from the part of her presentation where she talked about the obstacles that get in the way of… Continue reading Obstacles to Revision for Little Kids
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Verbs in Revision
Georgia Heard's Book The Revision Toolbox: Teaching Techniques That Work is one of the best books on the teaching of writing that I own. If it's not in your bookshelf, then click here to preview it and/or buy it (It's that good!). To that end, I decided to do one last revision lesson, before my… Continue reading Verbs in Revision
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Correcting vs. Revising
I've been thinking about this post for a few weeks now. I've heard teachers ask students to "fix" their writing when asking them to revise. For some reason, this word -- fix -- hits me like a knife in my gut. What do they mean fix? And if the writing is so bad that it… Continue reading Correcting vs. Revising
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Playing with Time
Since my students are quickly publishing a small moment story this week, I only had one day (yesterday) to teach a revision strategy. I chose to teach them how to play with time, which is an idea I adapted from Jim Vopat's Micro Lessons for Writing book. I gave my students a mini-chart for the… Continue reading Playing with Time
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REVISION, REVISION, REVISION
Some notes I took from Carl Anderson's Revision Class (first session) at the TCRWP Writing Institute. It's all about how to make revision more meaningful and useful for kids so that they don't dread it!
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Revision a la Wordle
I decided to put everyone's definitions of revision together using Wordle. Click on the image to enlarge. If you like this image, feel free to use it, alongside or in addition to the amazing definitions people left this past Tuesday. Thanks to the following people for helping define revision: Ruth Ayres Bryan Angelo and Bridget… Continue reading Revision a la Wordle
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How do you define the word revision?
A few years ago I was given a simple, concrete definition of revision that I've used with my students: to see again. However, I'm curious... how do you describe what revision is in your classroom? Please leave a comment with your definitions. I'd love to compile them all in a post sometime next week.
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Shifting Gears: From Drafting to Revision and Editing
Poetry is one of my favorite genres to teach. I simply love the way the genre empowers ALL kids to have success with their words. (Quite frankly, I wish I could teach it in November, right before personal essay, but for some reason it never happens that way! Making it the last genre of the… Continue reading Shifting Gears: From Drafting to Revision and Editing
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Scenes from a Workshop Workshop
Well, really just a scene from today's Writing Workshop, but I wanted to do a take-off of the Billy Joel Song. 😉 Anyway, I taught a great minilesson today on character development in Writing Workshop that I got from Georgia Heard's book The Revision Toolbox, which I turn to nearly every time my students have… Continue reading Scenes from a Workshop Workshop
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Revision: Dialogue
The active engagement of today's minilesson ran a little longer than usual since my students felt as though they needed to help me revise my dialogue after studying the way another author used powerful dialogue in another text. I think that their suggestions helped me write something more believable that just needs to be folded… Continue reading Revision: Dialogue
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Ideas for Creating a 3-D Character from Today’s M.L. Active Engagement
First, I have to say that today's lesson I taught, which was adapted from Session 11 of Calkins & Cruz's Book on Fiction Writing in Grades 3 - 5 is AWESOME. It's all about revising with different lenses. My students read my story yesterday and commented on it, which was helpful to me. One thing… Continue reading Ideas for Creating a 3-D Character from Today’s M.L. Active Engagement
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A short list of the texts my students went for to help them revise the endings of their stories today…
One of our readers, Kelly, asked me to share the list of texts my students went for when looking for mentor texts to help them revise the endings of their short fiction pieces today. Here's the list of texts they used: Fly Away, Home by Eve Bunting "Josie's First Allowance Day" by Rosie Perez Knuffle… Continue reading A short list of the texts my students went for to help them revise the endings of their stories today…
