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Revisiting Revision

Revisiting Revision. Questioning How I Teach Re-vision . Diana Alvarez University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Writing Project Invitational Summer Institute Teacher Inquiry Workshop June 28, 2011. Overview. Introduction Participant Outcomes Context Guiding Questions Defining Revision

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Revisiting Revision

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  1. Revisiting Revision Questioning How I Teach Re-vision Diana Alvarez University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Writing Project Invitational Summer Institute Teacher Inquiry Workshop June 28, 2011

  2. Overview • Introduction • Participant Outcomes • Context • Guiding Questions • Defining Revision • Theoretical Statement • Revision Strategies • Reflection and Personal Connections

  3. Participant Outcomes • Identify essential elements of revision; • Engage in revision strategies that will encourage the asking of questions; • Revise a piece of your own writing after collaborating with fellow writers; and • Reflect on and make connections to your practice.

  4. ELACommon Core Standards Writing Anchor Standards Listening & Speaking Anchor Standards 1. Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively. 3. Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric. 5. Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.

  5. Context • Have been a bilingual Literacy Coach in an MPS elementary school for the last 5 years • Focused on writing with 4th and 5th grade students and teachers during the last 2 months of school • Will be a 3rd grade bilingual teacher

  6. Guiding Questions • How can I effectively teach my students to revise their writing? • How can I encourage students to embrace revision? • How do I stop the whining and complaining and refusing that often accompany revision efforts? • What is revision?

  7. Activity 1 What is revision? On your index card: Independently What is revision? Share DEFINE

  8. Our UWMWP-ISI Revision Wordle http://www.wordle.net/

  9. Revision in ResearchWordle

  10. My A-HA’s • Revision can come only after students are invested in the pieces they write. • Not all writing is worthy of revision. • Revision is significantly changing ideas, angles, content of a piece of writing. • Revision is encouraged through writers sharing with readers/listeners. • Questions are key.

  11. My RevisionWordle

  12. Questioning to Revise • Must be cultivated (in teacher & student) • Authentically generated through interaction between writer and reader • Not about what the teacher deems as important • Should help writer find a new path • Leads to discovery

  13. Activity 2 Questioning Student Work Read Michael’s writing. On the sticky notes, write questions you might ask him. Share.

  14. Outside or Inside Questions(Barry Lane, 1999) Outside Questions Inside Questions How did you feel when...? Do you remember another time you felt like that? What can be done so that doesn’t happen again? • What happened? • How did it happen? • What did it look like? • Who was there?

  15. Activity 3 Questioning Student Work Look back at your table’s questions. Categorize them as Outside or Inside questions. Pick 1 Inside questions and talk about how it might change the piece.

  16. Curious Questions(Barry Lane, 1999) • Are generated through a reader’s interest • Are not Yes or No • Are not meant to “fix” the writing • Are generated in a small group • Are written and turned over to the writer • Writer choose any questions that interest him

  17. Activity 4 Everyone gets a turn! Curious Questions(Barry Lane, 1999) Writer reads a piece out loud. Partners listen and write curious questions. Writer collects all curious questions and picks the ones that intrigue him the most. Answer them and see where they lead you.

  18. Diana’s piece Friday morning, I heard a door opening and I tried to guess who it was. Quick, light steps investigating. “Are they awake?” The footsteps want to know. I pretend to be asleep. The footsteps venture in, pause, come around to my side, pause and retreat.

  19. Activity 5 Everyone gets a turn! Dig a Potato Today(Barry Lane, 1999) Look at all of the curious questions you collected and pick 1 that intrigues you. Answer it and turn it into a lead. Rewrite your piece starting with your new lead.

  20. Participant Outcomes • Identify essential elements of revision; • Engage in revision strategies that will encourage the asking of questions; • Revise a piece of your own writing after collaborating with fellow writers; and • Reflect on and make connections to your practice.

  21. Revisiting Revision New Insight Validation

  22. “Questions are the fuel for all powerful writing.” ~Barry Lane “Revision is not the end of the writing process but the beginning.” ~Donald Murray

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