Description
This book provides strategies and lesson plans for middle and high school teachers to help empower their students to write effectively. The book includes real student writing samples, as well as a response and final evaluation form. The book is written in a teacher-friendly manner and includes practical strategies for the teaching of revision.
Give your students the confidence to continuously improve their writing. In
Empowering Students to Write and Re-write: Standards-Based Strategies for Middle and High School Teachers, author and educator Warren Combs provides teachers with detailed strategies and lesson plans, along with real student writing samples. 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. 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. Teachers will help their students:
- Self-assess their progress with accuracy
- Revise partial and whole drafts
- Kindle their innate writing abilities
- Cultivate a mindset for revision
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
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