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

By Warren E. Combs

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596671238
• ISBN13: 9781596671232
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.4" x 10.9"