Top 10 Ideas on Revision to help students:
l. Ask questions of the writer that will help them write their leads or add more information.
2. Encourage students to describe so their writing is believeable.
3. Insert dialogue into your writing.
4. Help students to see what they can add to their writing or leave out of their writing.
5. Help students to see the creative possibilities for revision.
6. Don't overwhelm students, take these revision posibilities a little bit at a time and practice in their own writing.
7. Conferencing with students will help move their writing forward. Ask students about their ideas.
8. Revision can happen anywhere in the process.
9. Encourage your students to have many beginnings.
10. It shouldn't be perfect the first time you write.
This is good - I need to put these up by my desk at school! You have written then so concisely!
ReplyDeleteI like the idea that writing does not have to be perfect! It is only through our mistakes that we learn the revision strategies that will make our writing better.
ReplyDeleteLike we discussed, perfection is a lonely place. Writing like art, has many treasures hidden in the "clutter".
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