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Re: Teaching revision
Posted by Cathy Seabourne on 12/29/07
On 12/28/07, sk wrote: > On 12/27/07, Liz/AK wrote: >> Hello all! Just wondering if anyone has any good ideas for >> teaching revision. Some 'tricks of the trade" I've discovered over the years for revising papers. 1. Circle words that are weak and write wc (word choice). Students must then look up stronger words in thesaurus. 2. A wavy line under a sentence or clause indicates that they writing is sloppy, unclear, or awkward. 3. A star next to sentence indicates that this idea should be expanded. 4. Highlight with yellow markers the "golden words" indicating that this is well expressed and should remain in the paper. 5. Question marks indicate that writing is unclear or more information is needed. 6. A really helpful strategy for revision is for the teacher to tape a spelling test size paper on the right side of the student's work. The spelling test sized paper should be as long as the student's paper but not as wide. On the spelling sized paper the teacher can make suggestions,indicate spelling, punctuation,capitalization, grammar errors and any additional directions/help that the student needs to improve his or her paper. The student can then take revision ideas written on the paper on the right side and apply it to their writing--so that the student is more active in revising their work as each student must using editing marks to actively revise their own paper.
Posts on this thread, including this one
- Teaching revision, 12/27/07, by Liz/AK.
- Re: Teaching revision, 12/28/07, by sk.
- Re: Teaching revision, 12/29/07, by musicbug.
- Re: Teaching revision, 12/29/07, by Cathy Seabourne.
- Re: Teaching revision, 12/29/07, by tgs/ga/8.
- Re: Teaching revision, 1/15/08, by Debbie.
- Re: Teaching revision, 2/20/08, by Phil.
- Re: Teaching revision, 2/22/08, by Heidi.
- Re: Teaching revision, 6/27/08, by cjf.
- Re: Teaching revision, 6/27/08, by cjf.
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