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Reading & Literacy Opinion

Writing Well Means Rewriting, Rewriting, Rewriting

By Larry Ferlazzo 鈥 August 15, 2022 4 min read
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During the summer, I am sharing thematic posts bringing together responses on similar topics from the past 11 years. You can see all those collections from the first 10 years here.

Today鈥檚 theme is Writing Instruction.

You can see the list following this excerpt from one of the posts:

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1. Teaching Writing Requires Leaving Students With an 鈥業 Can Do It!鈥 Spirit

Three 糖心动漫vlog share suggestions for writing instruction, including a visual-thinking strategy. Read more.

2. Four Strategies for Effective Writing Instruction

Three 糖心动漫vlog share their best ideas on K-12 writing instruction, including writing frames and graphic organizers. Read more.

3. Seven Strategies for Grammar Instruction

Five 糖心动漫vlog share instructional strategies for engaging and effective grammar instruction. Read more.

4. 17 Approaches for Encouraging Students to Revise Their Writing

Five 糖心动漫vlog offer instructional strategies to use when teaching writing revision, including the power of an authentic audience. Read more.

5. Ways to Help Ignite Students鈥 Intrinsic Desire for Writing Revision

Five 糖心动漫vlog make suggestions that might help students want to revise their writing, including by using 鈥渆diting stations.鈥 Read more.

6. 鈥業 No Longer Give Grades on Student Writing Assignments, and It鈥檚 the Best Thing Ever!鈥

Five 糖心动漫vlog share how they have helped students motivate themselves to revise their writing. Read more.

7. Making Revision of Writing a 鈥楥ollaborative Process鈥

Six 糖心动漫vlog discuss strategies they鈥檝e used to encourage students to revise their writing, such as demonstrating their own practice. Read more.

8. 12 Strategies for Encouraging Students to Want to Revise Their Writing

Four 糖心动漫vlog share suggestions for creating the classroom conditions in which students want to make revisions to their writing. Read more.

9. Spreading 鈥楶oetry Love鈥 in the Classroom

Nine 糖心动漫vlog share instructional strategies they use to teach poetry, including through read-alouds and through studying and writing odes. Read more.

10. Teaching Poetry in 鈥楶layful鈥 Ways

Four 糖心动漫vlog share multiple ways to teach poetry, including by modeling and by mimic writing, so that students can enjoy and appreciate the literary form. Read more.

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