Revision Plus

Inspire your students to rethink and rewrite!

Educators agree the most common stumbling block in the writing process is revision. Revision Plus ensures that your students will care about revision, understand its purposes, and learn how to revise successfully as they develop their own draft writing.

Each Revision Plus package includes:

• 5 sets of task cards with 64 cards in each set
• 1 four-page Teacher Resource

Revision Plus introduces and reinforces these essential elements of writing:

• Choice
• Correctness
• Ideas
• Organization
• Voice

Author Sylvia Gunnery

Award-winning teacher Sylvia Gunnery combines her experiences as an educator and as the writer of teacher resources as well as numerous books for young people to create this innovative and practical classroom resource. The author of Just Write! (Pembroke/Stenhouse 1998) and The Writing Circle (Pembroke/Stenhouse 2007), Sylvia frequently presents at literacy conferences across the country.

A teacher resource explains the basic functions of Revision Plus and offers introductory lessons.

Five sets of colourful-coded cards allow individuals or small groups to revise their draft writing at the same time.

Each set of cards contains 64 revision and editing prompts.

A simple yet powerful complement to all writing programs. Revision Plus:

• makes revision routine
• lets students know exactly what to look for as they revise
• is a flexible classroom resource
• is a classroom-organization and time-saving tool for teachers
• can help to make revision fun
• focuses and simplifies the job of revision

Please see Free Resources section for free, downloadable Revision Plus lessons.