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Top 10 Important "Rules" of Revision
1. Have predictable and consistant rituals and routines, arrangements, and classroom structures.
2. Creating a safe classroom community of writers who value each other's work and opinions.
3. Know your students.
4. Convey the role of revision is a recursive process, and that we are always revising in one form or another.
5. Ask guiding questions, don't tell specific answers, and resist the desire to fix the student's paper.
6. Give students choices in their writing, revision, and their audience/purpose.
7. Provide "Tool Boxes," with specific notes on index cards to guide students through the writing process.
8. Create a common revision language, and a shared shorthand for communicating revision symbols.
9. Respond to student's writing as a reader, not as a teacher, and limit directions to one or two at a time.
10. Remember, students need to own their work/writing.
"...we are always revising in one form or another." This is such a good point, especially for the kids who think they're done after the first draft. This relates back to Anne Lamott's metaphor comparing finishing a piece of writing to tucking an octopus into bed. There is always more revising to do, so it's hard to feel like you're ever done.
ReplyDeleteWow Shannon, you summarized with clarity the broad theory Top Ten. Can I borrow them?
ReplyDeleteShannon, This is a great reminder to share a common language and symbols for our revisions.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of creating a safe community for your students with revision!
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