Sheena Cameron

Sheena Cameron and Louise Dempsey


Sheena and Louise shared practical ideas for establishing editing routines and supporting students to improve their writing. The workshop referenced ideas presented in chapter 6 of the 'The Writing Book'. Louise impressed upon the point to support teachers to include more quality 'learning talk' in classrooms and to embed purposeful oral language opportunities across the curriculum. They presented research based ideas, activities and support material to translate theory into classroom practice. Find a great story to share with students. Generate interesting discussion and motivate our writers. 
Editing - Feedback 
I know what Im learning and why- what do we want our students to know about reviewing writing? Highlight different sentence starters in reading ( if sentence starting is the focus)
2. I can find examples in my writing
3. I can improve my writing
4. I can talk about my successes and my next steps
5. I write carefully - checking as I go
I can self check my writing and fix up some mistakes - only 4 or 3 words. Fix some mistakes but not all of them.
7. I feel like an author and want to share my writing -do I make time and model editing, do I celebrate it. Share something with somebody most days, a couple of sentences, with a buddy, friend, home.  
Responding to writing model - Pg 197 - first respond to the message
Dylan William -feedback (self and peer assessment) youtube
Self assessment - activating - check
Book Expectations still important.

Use a good video. Pause the video and get students to predict what happens next.
- write a news report about an event
- A moment in time (Pg100 'the Writing Book')

Teaching writers editing codes - Pg 196 - google draft writing Roald Dahl to show that everyone edits! Introduce rereading, noticing and fixing up mistakes. 

Mini lessons - explicit teaching of re-crafting or editing skills - see handout
Playing with sentences and practising re-crafting

Re-crafting
Kids need to see us deleting information we don't need.
One word can make a big difference to take an ordinary piece of writing to a great piece of writing.
Kids who are 'movers' need a second page for editing/re-crafting
One skill a week - see handout 
Super Sentences - Once a week as a warm up
Adverbs can be great sentence starters.

Make time for proof-reading and re-crafting -lesson wrap up!
Valid to have a whole lesson as re-crafting a single piece of writing - model-write-share together.

Writing will be memorable if it's visual
Highlight and project students work

see handout for further notes
The Writing Book Resources