Teaching Nonfiction Revision: A Professional Writer Shares Strategies, Tips, and Lessons - Softcover

Spandel, Vicki; Collard III, Sneed B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0325087776 ISBN 13: 9780325087771

Publisher: HEINEMANN, 2017

Synopsis

What happens when a bestselling nonfiction children’s book author pairs up with a nationally known writing teacher to discuss revision strategies?  Magic.
 
Sneed B. Collard III and Vicki Spandel blow the roof off everything you thought you knew about teaching nonfiction writing and the purposes for revision.  Dozens of strategy lessons pulled from Sneed’s professional writing experience followed by Vicki’s classroom-savvy tips and exercises give you the nuts and bolts of teaching revision to make nonfiction writing more meaningful, useful, and enjoyable for the reader.

Using a “big-to-small” process of revision, from Big Picture ideas down to individual words, Sneed and Vicki demystify revision and help students become clear, persuasive, compelling―even entertaining―writers. “With your encouragement and guidance,” they write, “students will discover the joy of turning their first rough ideas into something readers cannot put down.”

About this title

About the Authors

Vicki Spandel has spent her professional life working with students and teachers of writing—as a classroom instructor, online writing coach, journalist, editor, technical writer, and curriculum developer. She is the author of multiple books on writing, including Creating Writers, Creating Young Writers, and The 9 Rights of Every Writer. Visit Vicki online at http://sixtraitgurus.wordpress.com to see writing lessons based on contemporary literature.

One of today’s favorite nonfiction children’s authors, Sneed B. Collard III has written more than 80  books, ranging from captivating picture books to middle-grade novels to award-winning science books. He is the 2006 recipient of the Washington Post Children’s Book Guild Nonfiction Award for his body of work. Sneed is a popular speaker and has done author visits at more than 600 schools. He also gives professional development workshops such as his all-day teacher training, “Building Nonfiction Writers.” To learn more about Sneed, his books, and speaking activities, visit www.sneedbcollardiii.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: HEINEMANN
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0325087776
• ISBN 13: 9780325087771
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240