Consider setting up an area in your room where you (or better yet, a parent or high school volunteer) can work with individual students. The volunteer sits at the computer, and the child sits next to the volunteer and read his or her work. Volunteers (who you have trained) type the work using all of the proper conventions: punctuation, spelling, capitalization, proper grammar-keeping the child's original language whenever possible. If while reading, the student says, "Oh, I should have said . . ." The volunteer types what the child wished he or she written, thus reinforcing revision right up to the end.
What do you do with the typed work? Here is a list of ideas:
1. Place in a class anthology (3-ring binder with page protectors to hold published work.)
2. Mount on a bulletin board
3. Read over the intercom
4. Include in school or class newsletters
5. Post on a Web site
6. Have child read in a podcast
7. Record (audio or video) a class radio show
8. Perform as a skit
9. Read at an authors' tea
10. Compile a class book around a single theme (poems, funny stories, holiday stories, etc.)
11. Include in a class yearbook
12. Include in the school literary magazine
13. Submit to a student market or contest
14. Give as a gift
for primary teachers
