“Incredible!” is the comment made by teachers after attending this outstanding professional development opportunity. Often times students believe that editing and revising means rewriting their composition onto a clean copy. In this session, teachers learn to teach students to integrate vivid language, sentence variety and fluency, active voice, organization; develop their ideas through using “revising techniques.” The presenter fine-tunes the writing strategies taught in the initial “foundations” training. More specific instruction is given in the area of revising, editing and using writing traits. Teachers receive instruction in building automaticiy together with integrating writer’s crafts into compositions. Attendees are provided with a “Write Up A Storm!® - Take Rewarding Revisions by Storm!” ™ teachers’ manual.

Duration: 6 1/2 hours