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Empowering Students to Write and Re-write: Standards-Based Strategies for Middle and High School Teachers
Author(s): Warren Combs (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 27 July 2017
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 240 pages
- ISBN-10: 113843969X
- ISBN-13: 9781138439696
Book Description
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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