25 Awesome Learning Strategies to make Writing Instruction Students say Thats

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1. Conferencing Teacher meets with students to go over their writing with
them while talking about what struggles theyre having and where they want
to go with their writing.
2. Peer review- Students group up and and they revise papers.
3. Self Assessment- Students look at their own work and critique it.
4. Writing workshop Students work collaboratively to perfect each others
writings.
5. Neon Revision Students use different colors of highlighters to find the first
word, subject, and verb in each sentence. They can also use different colored
pencils for an extra special something!
6. Show kids real life revision in action Scribbles, cross stuff out, show them
its ok to revise.
7. Prodigality taking an idea and change it into many different forms of
writing, while focusing on the main concepts.
8. Writing Buddies Compliments, Suggestions, Corrections, all of these are
offered by your writing buddy!
9. Editing Wheel Focusing on one criterion of a paper at a time during a self
reading or per reading.
10. Editing Checklist This is a whole list that students could go through a piece
of writing with to if they are hitting all the needs of the paper.
11. Be willing You need to be willing to see the flaws in your writing and want
to rework it.
12. Reshaping Sometimes you just need to reformat it.
13. Cups and Arms Revise vs. Edit. ARMS (Add, Remove, Move, Substitute)
CUPS (Capitalize, Usage, Punctuation, Spelling)
14. Student Generated Criteria Look what the students expect in a paper! They
create the rubric of what should be looked at in the paper.
15. Finding relations between paragraphs Make sure youre not adding to your
paper but redrafting it and making your paper stronger, not larger.
16. Flashcard Revision Write your thesis on a flashcard. Read each of your body
paragraphs and hold up the flashcard for each one to see if the thesis fits.
17. Glossing for Revision Determine what your paragraph says, what are you
trying to say?
18. Authors Notes the Author should give the big idea and concepts that are
being supported through the big idea for their paper to their peers.
Essentially, give an outline so that way your peers can see if your ideas match
what youre writing.
19. Read Backwards Read through your last paragraph to your first paragraph.
20. Goldilocks Effect Always know, no matter how good of a writer you are
there will always be revisions. Youll always have more or not enough, itll
never be just right.
21. Read-Out-Loud Find grammar and spelling mistakes.
22. Proof reading Focus words and usage, not meaning and content.

23. Visual Mapping Try using a graphic organizer to refine your thinking and
focus your idea from your previous drafting.
24. Paragraph Correction Worksheets Gives students one specific thing to look
at each day for correcting grammar.
25. Groups of experts Four groups, Master Mechanic, Words Master, Grammar
Chief, Proof-reading-Professor.