THE REVISON TOOLBOX TEACHING TECHNIQUES THAT WORK by Georgia Heard

THE REVISON TOOLBOX TEACHING TECHNIQUES THAT WORK by Georgia Heard

Students need to be reminded that revision isn't merely making a few cosmetic changes. Revision is seeing and then reseeing our words and practicing strategies that make a difference in our writing.
--Georgia Heard

You mean I have to change my writing? Georgia Heard frequently hears this question from students as well. We must welcome young writers into the world of revision, she writes, through invitations and tools that make it concrete and tangible.

With Georgia's Revision Toolbox, Second Edition, you'll lead students to see that revision is a natural part of narrative and nonfiction writing. Students need to be able to bring the tools of revision to writing the way a carpenter comes equipped for a job with a toolbox, she writes. So Georgia shares three revision toolboxes--structure, words, and voice--each with dozens of teaching ideas and strategies. They'll help writers:

• re-envision revision as an engaging process, not as a punishment
• craft a piece along the way instead of editing only at the end
• learn and apply revision strategies for work in any genre
• reread their writing with specific revision goals in mind.

This second edition brings Georgia's lessons and strategies--new and familiar--into the Common Core era with a focus on narrative, informational, and opinion/argument genres. She also includes tools for targeted instruction such as strategic conferences, reproducible planning templates for narrative and essays, and reproducible revision checklists.

Writing and revision are really one process, writes Georgia, and her Revision Toolbox, Second Edition, brings them together simply, practically, and elegantly. So the next time you hear a student say, I like it just the way it is they'll be referring to a final draft.

Preview a sample chapter to see a helpful infographic and examples of Georgia's lessons and strategies.

Georgia Heard continues to contribute a poet's ear and a teacher's know-how to every area of writing instruction as a writer, poet, and founding member of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. Heart Maps, her newest book, contains 20 multi-genre heart maps to assist students in writing with purpose and authenticity. Georgia, a pioneer in the use of heart maps to examine what we all store inside: feelings, passions, weaknesses, and wonderings, has spent decades helping students into more meaningful writing experiences. Listen to Georgia on The Heinemann Podcast discuss about heart mapping, and check out the Heart Maps Facebook page at www.facebook.com/groups/heartmaps. Georgia is the author of several books, including The Revision Toolbox, Second Edition, Discovering the Heart of Nonfiction, and Writing Toward Home, as well as Awakening the Heart, which was named one of the 12 Books Every Teacher Should Read by Instructor Magazine.

She is also the coauthor of Climb Inside a Poem, a curricular resource that focuses on how reading and producing poetry can assist teachers enhance young kids' language and literacy over the course of the year. Georgia worked as a Senior Staff Development in New York City schools for seven years at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project. She is now touring the United States. as a consultant, visiting author, and keynote speaker in school systems and conferences all over the world.

Georgia is the coauthor of the professional titles Poetry Lessons to Meet the Common Core Standards and A Space for Wonder, as well as children's fiction such as Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems, in addition to her Heinemann professional publications. Georgia's Twitter handle is @GeorgiaHeard1, and her website is GeorgiaHeard.com. Check out her TEDx lecture on heart mapping, Mapping Your Heart.

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ISBN 13	9780325056890
ISBN 10	0325056897
Titel	THE REVISON TOOLBOX TEACHING TECHNIQUES THAT WORK
Autor	Georgia Heard
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Heinemann USA
Erscheinungsjahr	2014-03-18
Seitenanzahl	152
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