Here again I felt like she is the teacher of all teachers. It seems that Mrs. Routman can make any child do anything she wants them to do. No matter how many times I show whole class, small group, or individually revising & editing, I cannot get them to put their "heart and soul" into them. I guess I need her to come to my class and make them fall in love with revising & editing.
There were a few things I did enjoy about this chapter tough. I love the word wall idea. I think it would be great to have words that they will hear, need to know, & know how to use up for them to see and use everyday. It think words that contain our prefixes and suffixes would be excellent.
I love the fact of minilessons. I have heard and heard about them, but have never actually seen one taught or even an outline of one.
I also like the yearly layout on page 144. I really like the May categories. Our 6th grade writing layout is similar to this, but I am sure that we have way to many isolated skills being taught & prompts for Mrs. Routman.
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I totally agree on your feelings about this chapter. The author is full of herself. But I'm with you, there are parts of the chapter that are helpful.
I also agree with you on how difficult it is to get the students to really revise on their own. Many do believe that their draft is ready to be published the minute they are done. We even just read a fictional book on what it took for a girl to get her writing published. My hopes are that in a few years those of you that teach the upper grades will start to see improvement in this area since there are so many of us trying to become better writing teachers.
Again, the author is the queen bee of teaching writing, but as Nancy said, there are some really good ideas hiding in this chapter.
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