Warren Combs has devoted his professional career to the
application of best practices in the teaching of writing. His
book with Eye On Education, Empowering Students to Write and Re-
Write, was published in 2010. The book provides teachers with
detailed strategies and lesson plans to help teachers give their
students the confidence to continuously improve their writing.
The book also includes real student writing samples. The video
above is a book preview video for Empowering Students to Write
and Re-Write. Eye On Education: What led you to write Empowering
Students to Write and Re-Write? Warren Combs: The President and
Publisher of Eye On Education, Bob Sickles, asked me to write
it. But I must admit that I had been asked to write books
before. This time, the request seemed like a good fit. My system
for teaching the writing process, called "The Writing Cycle,"
had much success in school and district implementations. Schools
that used to see 30 to 50 percent of their students meet a state
writing standard pos