Ideas for reviewing and celebrating writing - The Literacy Place

 Editing-proofreading and recrafting clarification. Show students examples of editing process using famous author examples.



Vital to celebrate writing, opportunities to enjoy the writing, sharing gives a purpose.

Always respond to the writing as a reader first, the message. Celebrate the writing before moving into language features
Reviewing writing should be a third each, self, peer and teacher. Encouraging and supporting students to become self-regulators. Scaffold opportunities to develop.
MAKE TIME for reviewing and celebrating. It has as much value as the writing itself.



How? Projecting students book onto whiteboard/screen as a student using it. Student can tick criteria and recraft while others watching. Highlight success criteria achieved, then pause and all students review their own writing.

Self Checking
 - notice and fix-up some mistakes
- needs practise time. Has to be modelled
- STUDENTS DON'T LEARN WHEN TEACHERS OR OTHER STUDENTS CORRECT THEIR 
   MISTAKES FOR THEM.
- achievable goal


Editing tools.
Self-check tools - what are classes using now alongside screens.
Partner checking - 2 students together, one book on top of the other. The owner of the writing holds the book and does any editing with the pencil. Partner offers suggestions. Needs to be scaffolded, start with 2 successes first. Not adding in a challenge until they are older.
Scaffold partner checking




Start with Find a super sentence.
When that is mastered add
Find a blah sentence.
Can you turn it into a super sentence?

Ideas for celebrating Writing
Range of audiences. Teacher, staff, writing partner, small group, class, assemblies, buddy classes, family, publishing opportunities

Think, pair, walk and talk. Doesn't need to be the whole writing piece. Share a super sentence. Share three great wow words you used today.
A response sheet to published writing. pg 51
Remember - first step is to respond to the message. must teach the students how to respond

Managing publishing 
A more capable student could type in the story as a student reads from their book. Reader writer tools.
Vary the length of the publishing, could just be one sentence. A paragraph, padlet, wall mural, digitally, class poem, class books. A display inviting students to read the published books, music stand to display them. Record the writing. Quick write activity, six sentence story turned into a published book. Diorama's, accordion book etc displays
Be wary of putting work on walls that is too small or not at eye height. The purpose is to be read.















What next?
Discuss team practice. We have had a large turnover of staff. A need to support everyone and develop teamwide skills and consistency of practice.
Lesson review, is this happening enough? Share ideas and develop.
Projecting a book using our tv screens. What is the best way to do this?
Editing tools, do we have consistent practice across the team?
Partner check - share what this looks like.

Writers Festival - can we find a way to do this as a celebration of our students writing?