Children's author and teacher Kate Messner's presentation called Walking the Walk: How Teacher Writers Encourage Student Revision

1. Walking the Walk: How Teacher-Writers Can Encourage Student Revision Kate Messner, Children’s Author & NBCT http://www.katemessner.com New York State English Council October 23, 2008

2. What’s writing really like?

4. Seeing things in a new way…

5. Cynthia Lord, Newbery Honor Author of Rules http://www.cynthialord.com Shrunken Manuscript Technique

6. A Newbery author’s office…

8. A Shrunken Manuscript Strategy Courtesy of Darcy Pattison http://www.darcypattison.com PINK = plot points GREEN = crush BLUE = Ruby ORANGE = funny bits with Ian YELLOW = place for the tree game

9. THE BRILLIANT FALL OF GIANNA Z Walker Books for Young Readers Fall 2009

17. Jeannine Atkins www.jeannineatkins.com Something I look for when I read are concrete things that might make readers come closer through their 5 senses. In picture books, the illustrator, of course, adds to the visual, and dialogue helps with hearing, so I look for details that might evoke taste or scent. Writing Anne Hutchinson's Way, I knew she was a midwife, and researched herbs she might have used in caring for women and infants. I could write about her sleeves smelling of chamomile and mint.

18. Laurie Halse Anderson www.writerlady.com Make sure that the plot of the story unfolds in a logical order. Then I trace the emotional journey of my main character. (I often stick in the emotional response I want, instead of what the situation merits in an early draft.) Once those two aspects are nailed down (which takes FOREVER) I try to make the details in each scene as specific as possible. And I pay a lot of attention to transitions. FYI - I've never been able to write a novel in fewer than seven drafts.

27. How a Writers’ Critique Group Works… Yahoo Groups

35. Walking the Walk: How Teacher-Writers Can Encourage Student Revision Kate Messner, Children’s Author & NBCT http://www.katemessner.com New York State English Council October 23, 2008