Empowering Students to Write and Re-write: Standards-Based Strategies for Middle and High School Teachers - Hardcover

Combs, Warren

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 113843969X ISBN 13: 9781138439696

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

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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Combs, Warren

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113843969X
• ISBN 13: 9781138439696
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240