The Revision Toolbox: Teaching Techniques That Work

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 371.623044
EAN: 9780325004600
ISBN: 0325004609
Label: Heinemann
Manufacturer: Heinemann
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: October 08, 2002
Publisher: Heinemann
Studio: Heinemann

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"How can I get my students to revise their writing?" If this is one of your most frequently asked questions, then this is the book for you - a guide to specific strategies you can teach to enable your students to re-see and re-shape their writing on multiple levels, from word choice to organization.



Longtime writer and writing teacher Georgia Heard knows firsthand what a daunting task revision can seem to both students and teachers. First, she addresses students' confusion about the differences between editing and revision. She shows you how to reassure your students that revision is not an indicator of bad writing, but an integral part of the writing process. Then Heard provides ready-to-use strategies that take the mystery out of teaching revision and help even the most reluctant writers revise.



Using three main Revision Toolboxes - Words, Structure, and Voice - she offers dozens of specific revision tools to inspire students to revisit their work. In addition, Heard includes:

• a "Revision Lesson" for each tool to show you how to teach that strategy
• techniques to help students reread their writing from different points of view
• conferring techniques to guide you when instructing individual students
• revision examples from students and from Heard's own writing
• "Revision-at-a-Glance" - a quick-reference sheet for students on every revision tool.

Make revision inviting. Make it a part of your students' writing process. Then watch as they fine tune and improve-and the real pleasures of writing and teaching begin.






Rating: - The Revision Toolbox
This is another excellent book from Georgia Heard. As always, Georgia has provided ideas that can be applied immediately to one's own classroom. I highly recommend this book for anyone who is focused on improving writing in their classroom.

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Rating: - Can't Find Better
I took many courses with Georgia Heard when I was a graduate student at Columbia University. She changed my life as a teacher and writer. I cannot stop writing poetry and fiction because of her. Nor can I squelch my desire to work with students (primary school through adult ed) on their own poems.

The products of my students' writing and my own writing knock the pants off practically anyone who has a heart. Thank you, Georgia, for helping so much fantastic stuff to blossom.
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Rating: - Excellent Resource!!
I have used this book so many times with my third graders. Heard has some fresh, creative ideas on the different types of revisions that come up in Writers Workshop. If you love writers workshop this is a great addition to your library!

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Rating: - The Revision Toolbox - Teaching Techniques that Work
This book is a valuable tool for any teacher of writing. It gives a number of ways for teaching writers to look at revision with leads, voice, setting, character and much more dealing with the craft of writing. Each activity is easy to implement and can be utilized to fit any teacher's classroom situation.

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Rating: - Helpful Tools
Georgia Heard communicates clearly - in her poetry, in her writing. This book is a helpful collection of strategies and reminders that are straightforward and clearly expressed. For example, it addresses the importance of verbs, as the driving force of sentences, and of using specifics when naming nouns and then provides simple techniques and examples for practice. My middle school students and I find it valuable.

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