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Step by Step Writin g Teaching Revision A review of Randy Koch’s “The Best Way to Teach Good Writing Is One Step at a Time”

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Step by Step . Teaching Revision. Writing. A review of Randy Koch’s “The Best Way to Teach Good Writing Is One Step at a Time”. Things to remember about teaching the writing process :. Writing process is different from one student to another. Students have own way of writing. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Page 1: Step by Step

Step by Step

Writing

Teaching Revision

A review of Randy Koch’s “The Best Way to Teach Good Writing Is One Step at a Time”

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• Students have own way of writing

• Guide students through steps

• Students have right to personalize their own writing process• Allow students to evolve rough

or first draft into final draft

• Writing process is different from one student to another

Things to remember about teaching the writing process:

• Revision order might vary depending on students or teacher• For example, we would move revision 5 and 6 to the

beginning of the revision process

• Revision do not have to go in specific order

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Prewriting and first draft

• Can use web, clusters, outline, or free writing to start getting ideas on paper

• Get ideas down on paper

Web or Cluster

• Examples can be posted on the overhead or blackboard for students

• Then have students pull out topic to expand on, demonstrating how to pick topics from their own prewriting

• Don’t worry about getting it correct

• Drafting is about discovery• Free write to get ideas flowing

• Where ever it goes is unpredictable, even if it goes no where

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Revision 1: Revise by giving things and people the dignity of their own names

• Instead of pronouns, use names or a description of person• My daughter was playing in her room.• Ella was playing in her room.

• Make subjects in writing more specific and personal

• Instead of being general, use specific items or descriptions to help reader understand • Instead of “groceries,”

use “red apples, dozen eggs, and bottle of water.”

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Revision 2: Avoid weak helping verbs

• Take out extra endings of words, such –ing or –ed.• Ella was playing on the floor in her room.• Ella played on the floor in her room.

• Fixing grammatical sentence structure and verb usage• More concise, not so wordy

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Revision 3: Revised by using specific, concrete details that appeal to the reader’s senses

• Concrete details• Supporting descriptions, adjectives• Sensory descriptions• Use adjectives in an interesting way

• For example:• Ella played on the floor in her room• Ella with her big pink bow and purple rain boots,

played on the floor in her room• Katie was excited about her dress• Katie was excited about her new pink Chiffon prom

dress

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Revision 4: Revised by showing rather than telling, particularly by using dialogue

• Dialogue can be used to show a bigger picture

• Don’t always have to use full dialogue, but maybe describe the situation to get better understanding

• For example• My mom told me no.• My mother exclaimed, “NO!” which showed

she still wasn’t over our previous argument.

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Revision 5: Revised by cutting clutter

• Taking out unnecessary words

• Taking out sentences that disturb the flow of writing

• Checking proper word choice

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Revision 6: Revised by varying sentence structure and length

• Cutting long wordy sentences

• Provide variety in sentence structure