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I love writing workshop and am beginning to have more fondness for the 6 traits. Actually they are great. They help students communicate about their writing and think about their writing away from grades.

Nancy Atwell's "In the Middle" (?) or "Writing in the Middle" is the bible in terms of using writing workshop for all your needs. I swear by it, even if I can not remember the title.

And poetry is fantastic. Poetry 180 is a great website that gives you a poem a day to start your class with. Billy Collins put it together.

My question is how do you all make students become excited about rewriting and revising their stories? Once they have their scores and marks they do not use the traits well enough to go back and add more whatever to improve their ideas and content or sentence structure.
cjf On 7/04/08, Jay Collins wrote:

> My question is how do you all make students become excited > about rewriting and revising their stories? Once they have > their scores and marks they do not use the traits well > enough to go back and add more whatever to improve their > ideas and content or sentence structure.

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