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LET
BARRY LANE OUT OF THE BOX AND TEACH MINI-LESSONS IN
REVISION DIRECTLY TO YOUR STUDENTS
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Revision
is not the act of fixing your mistakes or redoing a draft. Real
revision involves, re-thinking and re-seeing a piece of writing
using the special tools of a writer’s craft to improve your
work. Barry Lane’s writing workshops and residences and books
have helped thousands of children in all 50 states learn to
improve their writing with joy and confidence.
Now you
can bring Barry Lane into your class with these 4 videos which
teach key concepts of craft to transform both writing and your
student’s attitude toward revision. But that’s not all. You
also get a free copy of Barry’s best selling Reviser’s
Toolbox ($27 value) with an index that tells of pages which
support each lesson. Take advantage of this pre-publication
special and order today. Let Barry out of the box and into your
classroom.
Lesson 1
DIGGING
POTATOES
AND GROWING LEADS
A potato
is something you dig up, something you want to know more about,
something that intrigues both the reader and the writer. Lessons
in tape one involve learning to ask questions to find a
beginning that’s close to a writer’s excitement in a story.
Learning to listen and ask curious questions can direct a writer
to finding an interesting angle on a subject and transforming
that interest into a compelling lead. At the end of this tape
Barry demonstrates this concept by singing his song about the
Three Little Pigs from the wolfs point of view.
Lesson 2
Digging for Details
Details
are the walls of writing, not the wallpaper. The act of writing
with detail is two-fold. We dig for details and then we choose
those telling details that say it all. In tape 2 Barry teaches
how use a simple concept like the binoculars to unlock the power
of detail for your students. Mini-lessons teach students how to
practice turning the knob on each other’s binoculars and how
to zoom in with more specific detail in both realistic and
fantasy writing.
LESSON
3
Snapshots
and Thoughtshots
In Tape 3
Barry illustrates how to replace "Show don’t tell"
with "Show and Tell." Snapshots are concrete physical
details and thoughtshots are mental details that live within the
minds of characters or the writer. Using both fiction and
non-fiction writing Mini-lessons in this video build on the
binocular lessons in tape 2 to help students learn to write
snapshots and thoughtshots and add them to their writing during
revision.
LESSON
4
Exploding
Moments
and Shrinking Centuries
Time to a
writer is like play-dough in the hands of a toddler. In tape 4
Barry teaches his most popular mini- lessons on how to
manipulate time in writing. Using slow motion clips, examples
from student writing and fiction and non-fiction literature,
Barry leads you to a deeper understanding of how writers control
the hands of the clock.
Included
free with your purchase
A copy of
Barry’s Best selling book, Reviser’s Toolbox
with a special added study guide which indexes all 4 videos with
key pages in the book. Now you have all the tools you need to
help your students learn to love revision as much as
professional writers do. |
