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Introducing 6 TraitsIntroducing 6 Traitsinto Our Writinginto Our WritingIntroducing 6 TraitsIntroducing 6 Traitsinto Our Writinginto Our WritingHelping to Make Our Writing MoreHelping to Make Our Writing More

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Isnt reading studentwriting fun?

Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, andBenjamin Franklin were singers ofthe Declaration of Independence.Franklin discovered electricity byrubbing cats backwards and declared,

A horse divided against itself cannotstand alone. Franklin died and is stilldead.


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What about these gems?Miguel Cervantes wrote Donkey Hote. The

next great author was John Milton. Miltonwrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died.And he wrote Paradise Regained.Voltaire invented electricity. Gravity was

invented by him. It is chiefly noticeable inthe autumn when the apples are falling offthe trees.Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis.Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote

the Organ of Species.Madman Curie discovered radio.Karl Marx became one of the Marx

brothers.


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Key to Higher WritingScores..

Write daily.Integrate writing with content areas.Require students to do more than onedraft.Model writing.

Save student work in portfolio or folder.Strive for school-wide continuity ofinstruction.Follow a checklist for best practices.


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What are the 6 Traits?


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What are the 6+1 Traits?1. Voice2. Word Choice

3. Conventions4. Sentence Fluency5. Organization

6. Ideas7. Presentation

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Ideas

Start with the ice cream.Whats a sundae without the ice cream?The main idea or topic sentence is essential

and begins the piece.

All other add-ons or toppings enhance theice cream (main idea).


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OrganizationHold it all together with the dish.

The dish (organization) makes the ice cream(ideas) easier to grasp and prevents it frommelting away.


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Word ChoiceSomething more to goon that sundae?Bananas, candies orchopped nuts alsoenhance the sundae.There are many typesof add-ons (wordchoice) to compliment your sundae (mainidea).


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VoiceHot fudge, strawberries,pineapple, enhance the ice

cream.Toppings add individuality tothe ice cream (main idea).We dont all like the same

things on our sundaes, dowe?Without toppings, ice creamis just too blah!


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Sentence FluencyWill there beanything else to go

on your sundae?How about somewhipped cream tohelp the toppings

flow along?


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Conventions &Presentation

Whats a sundae without a cherry totop it off?

Polish up your dessert and add thefinishing touch.Its all in the presentation looks CANfool the stomach!

And now grab a spoon and enjoy!


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Ideas and ContentClassroom Bank or ListJournal PageRealiaLiterature ExperienceWhat else?

http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/tnl/langarts/pdf/6traits/ideas.pdf


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A Closer Look atWord ChoiceUse powerful words that paint a

mental picture for the reader.

Add descriptive adjectives toenhance nouns. The lumpy brown toad hopped quickly

through the squishy gooey mud.Verbs should be strong action words. The cows stampeded through the field. The cows sauntered through the field.


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What else?Try to use specific, rather than generalnouns.

The car zoomed down the street. The 1957Chevy zoomed down the street.Use language that is comfortable, notflowery or stuffy. I shall not follow you.Avoid slang and cliches. He was fixin to finish his homework.


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Lets Give it a Try!The toad ______through the mud..The ______ toad ________through the

_________mud.The _______ ________ toad __________ ________ through the _________ _________ mud.

~ For more ideas, see Connies Write OnSentence Stretchers. http://jc-schools.net/write/stretching_files/frame.htm


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And Theres MoreAvoid repetition. She liked to dance and she liked to

skate and she liked to sing.Make sure to use words correctly. There driving to theyre house and will

arrive their by noon.Unless you are Hemmingway orHawthorne, be concise.


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Sample Strategies for

Teaching Word ChoiceUse cartoon bubbles.Peer edits circle 5 wordsin your partners paperthat could be stronger.During teacher read-aloudspoint out concreteexamples of stronglanguage. (Toad) Post wordlists around the room. Usespecific parts of speech.

Encourage use of aThesaurus. (How manywords for blue arethere?)Encourage students to usesenses to describe anobject. Use coloredpencils to underlinesensory words.

~ adapted from

http://6traits.cyberspace.net/strat6.html


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Lets Give it a Try!


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Using our common

senses.The old man grumbled a bit as he wipedhis teary eye with the back of hisgnarled hand. He could taste the salt ashe rubbed his parched lips. He glancedat his silent wife standing a shortdistance away. She too was old, but hestill saw in her wrinkled face the pretty

young girl he had married. She stillsmelled like freshly mowed spring grass.


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Using our common

senses.The old man grumbled a bit as he wipedhis teary eye with the back of hisgnarled hand. He could taste the salt ashe rubbed his parched lips. He glancedat his silent wife standing a shortdistance away. She too was old, but hestill saw in her wrinkled face the pretty

young girl he had married. She stillsmelled like freshly mowed spring grass .

Key:sound touch taste sight smell


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Making Word PostersTombstone Words Sparkle Words

pretty

goodsoa lotsaid

terrifying

ear-splittingsquishyscrumptious

copious

~Encourage your students to add to the lists .http://jc-schools.net/write/Shining-Words_files/frame.htm

http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/tnl/langarts/pdf/6traits

/word_choice.pdf


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Teacher Read Alouds for

Teaching Word ChoiceManiac Magee,SpinelliThe BFG, DahlA Wrinkle in Time.LEngleAnne of Green

Gables,Montgomery

Lizards for Lunch,StoradHalf a Moon and

One Whole Star,DragonwagonToad, Ruth Brown


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Now Lets Examine

Sentence FluencyLet your writing develop an easy flowor rhythm.

Aim to make your writing ache to beread aloud. He moved like a slow-motion instant

replay. (Christopher Myers)Use complete sentences. Slept soundly in the crib. The baby slept soundly in the crib.


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What else should a good

writer do?Vary sentence lengths. He wore a red shirt. He had on brown

slacks. His jacket was wrinkled. He wore a wrinkled jacket over a red

shirt with brown slacks.Vary sentence beginnings. I like to sing. I like to playthe piano. I like to sing. Playing the piano

is my favorite pastime.


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Anything else?Try different sentence structures. The cow jumped over the moon. The dish

ran away with the spoon. The cow jumped over the moon. Did yousee the dish run away with that spoon?What an incredible sight!

http://jc-schools.net/write/I-Trouble.ppt http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/tnl/langar

ts/pdf/6traits/sentence_fluency.pdf


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Ideas to Teach Sentence

FluencyRead examples of goodfluency and poor fluency.Stress to students thatsentences need to flow.Avoid choppy sentences.Make sure students knowthe difference between aphrase and a sentence.Have students tell theirstory into a tape player.Writing is a way ofspeaking on paper.


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How about a little

Faulkner?Frenchman's Bend was a section of rich river-bottom countrylying twenty miles southeast of Jefferson. Hill-cradled andremote, definite yet without boundaries, straddling into twocounties and owning allegiance to neither, it had been theoriginal grant and site of a tremendous pre-Civil Warplantation, the ruins of which the gutted shell of anenormous house with its fallen stables and slave quarters andovergrown gardens and brick terraces and promenadeswerestill known as the Old Frenchman's place, although the originalboundaries now existed only on old faded records in theChancery Clerk's office in the county courthouse inJefferson, and even some of the once-fertile fields had longsince reverted to the cane-and-cypress jungle from whichtheir first master had hewn them.

~ The Hamlet, William Faulkner


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Teacher Read Alouds to

Model Sentence FluencySarah, Plain andTall, MacLachlan

The Van GoghCaf, RylantLion, Witch andthe Wardrobe,Lewis

Stealing Freedom,Carbone


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Moving on to VoiceAlways write from your heart andshare your feelings with the reader.

Avoid using you.Try not to sound like an encyclopedia.


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Tell me more.Invest yourself in what you write.Proudly take ownership.

Connect with your audience.Give the reader a glimpse at theperson behind the pen.


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Strategies to Teach

VoiceRewrite a popular story from a differentcharacters point of view. (The Real Story of theThree Little Pigs).

Read stories with vivid images. Have studentsclose their eyes and draw what they see.Read segments of dialogue and have studentsguess who is speaking. (Charlottes Web)Do some Author Studies to compare voice. Whatis the voice behind Stephen King?http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/tnl/langarts/pdf/6traits/voice.pdf


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Teacher Read Alouds for

VoiceBridge toTerabithia,

PatersonTuck Everlasting,BabbittRamona Forever,Cleary

Charlottes Web,White

Tales of a 4th

Grade Nothing,BlumeTreasure Island,

Stevenson


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Bringing new voices into

the classroom..Solomom had three hundred wives andseven hundred porcupines.Socrates was a famous Greek teacher whowent around giving people advice. Theykilled him. Socrates died from an overdoseof wedlock. After that his career suffereda dramatic decline.Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummiesand they all wrote in hydraulics. They livedin the Sarah Dessert. The climate ofSarah is such that inhabitants have to liveelsewhere.


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For more information:Kims Korner forTeacher Talk http://www.angelfire.com/ks/tea

chme/ideasdescriptors.html

6 Traits Homepage http://6traits.cyberspaces.net/

6 + 1 Trait Writinghttp://www.nwrel.org/assessment/

6 Trait Lesson Planshttp://www.kent.k12.wa.us/staff/LindaJancola/ 6Trait/lessons.htm#Word%20ChoiceA GREAT Site!!

http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/tnl/langarts/sixtrtcrsmtrl.htm

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