Assessment,+Self-Assessment,+Revision

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 * Research: Assessment and Revision **

Angela: strategy instruction  Jenna: research-based revisions  Sandie: assessment

Q: What is the best way to teach revision to students? Q: How does assessment inform instruction? Q: What is strategy instruction?

=** __Revision__ **=

According to Charles MacArthur (2007), cognitive models of the writing process would describe revision as a process of detecting differences between the intended meaning and the actual meaning. Proficient writers have goals and purposes for writing. They monitor and evaluate their progress towards these goals as they are writing. There are many differences between struggling and proficient writers. Revision is NOT an easy process, but there are ways to make it more meaningful and practical for your students, as well as decrease their anxiety regarding writing. On our individual pages you will find research-based information regarding ways to teach revision, as well as how assessment guides instruction.


 * __Research Websites__ **:

[]  Featured articles on the National Writing Project Website regarding revision. 
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** __Assessment:__ **
Assessment is a means to guide student instruction. Why do it? How do I do it? What do I use to do it with? These questions plague teachers as they seek to assist their learners with valid and reliable research-based assessment methods.  Assessment gives us important information to advance all of our writers, whether they are advanced proficient, proficient or partially proficient. Successful writing varies the integration of writing skills and processes which many are difficult to measure.



** __Useful Websites__ **
[|www.unl.edu/csi]  This website is dedicated to strategy instruction. It is sponsored by the University of Nebraska- Lincoln.

[]  There are two learning modules on this site.  - Interactive on-line tutorial on SRSD - Persuasive Writing with POW & TREE strategy for elementary students [|www.readwritethink.org]  This website offers lessons in line with state and IRA standards. Sponsored by the IRA (International Reading Association), NCTE (National Council of English Teachers), and Verizon.
 * Click on resources
 * Learning Strategies
 * Modules
 * “Using learning strategies: Instruction to Enhance Learning.”
 * “Differentiated Instruction”
 * Module: “Improving writing performance: a strategy for writing expository essays.”

[|www.discover-writing.com] <span style="color: #345049; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Contains some useful lesson plans for teaching skills such as including metaphors and persuasive writing.