In this book, the author provides teachers with detailed strategies and lesson plans, along with real student writing samples. He describes effective routines of formative self-assessment, and shows teachers how to form a professional learning team with their colleagues using the 6-session professional learning guide. Contents include: (1) Revision Is Picturing Again--Voice, Pictures and Flow; (2) Identifying the Voice, Pictures, and Flow in Writing; (3) Crafting the Pictures and Voice in Writing that Fit Your Mind; (4) What Revision is Not; (5) Kindling Innate Writing Abilities; (6) Prewrite with Me; (7) Revise Words and Phrases with Me: An Introduction to Revising First Drafts; (8) Revise Body Paragraphs with Me; (9) Revise Whole Drafts with Me; (10) Work on Style of Writing with Me; (11) Nail Down Effective Word Choice with Me; (12) Fine-Tune Beginnings and Endings with Me; (13) Call on Your Audience with Me; (14) Talk About Writing with Me; and (15) Talk About Writing with Me.