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What do I need to teach?What do I need to teach?How do I teach it?How do I teach it?What can I use?What can I use?
6+1 writing traits6+1 writing traits• Ideas• Organization• Voice• Word choice• Sentence fluency• Conventions• presentations
IdeasIdeas
• Select a topic or idea• Narrow the idea• Develop the ideas• Add details and examples to the
ideas
Teaching the idea traitTeaching the idea trait• Show examples from literature• Have the students describe objects• Use poetry• Write like a good movie on paper
organizationorganization• Develop a beginning or lead and an
ending• Decide on the organizational
structure compare/contrast sequence main idea/detailUse transitions
Teaching the organizational Teaching the organizational traittrait
• Read leads from books and have the students guess who the author is
• Play a game by scrambling a text and having the students put the text in the correct order
• Give examples of leads and rate them
• Review transition words
voicevoice
• Show individuality, perspective, and expression in your writing
• Let your writing sound like you• Be sensitive to the audience• Show enthusiasm for the topic• Show confidence in your writing
Teaching the voice traitTeaching the voice trait• Read passages from stories, poetry,
advertisements, brochures and posters
• Use literature books• Read greeting cards and try and
guess the type of message• Write letters
Word choice Word choice • Use interesting words in your writing• Make sure the reader knows what
your words mean• Use colorful words and phrases• Make sure the writing sounds
authentic
Teaching the word choice Teaching the word choice traittrait
• Encourage the use of strong verbs. Start a verb wall for the students
• Review adjectives using a mystery box or describe how an object in a bag feels
• Use advertisements to identify adjectives
• Keep a word journal
Sentence fluency Sentence fluency
• Make sure your sentences make sense
• Begin your sentences in different ways
• Vary the length of your sentences
Teaching sentence fluencyTeaching sentence fluencyManipulate and rewrite sentences in a
variety of waysCount the number of words in each
sentenceRead aloud examples from literatureDiscuss rhyme and rhythmCombine choppy sentences
conventionsconventions• Make sure you have capitals• Make sure you have punctuation• Correct grammar and usage• Correct spelling
Teaching the convention Teaching the convention traittrait
• Use checklists for capitals and punctuation
• Read literature that uses different forms of punctuation
• Teach dictionary and thesaurus use
presentationpresentation• Take a look at how your paper looks• Make sure you leave spaces• Make sure you used good
handwriting• Make sure you have some text
features• Make sure you work is neat
Teaching the presentation Teaching the presentation traittrait
• Use checklists• Peer correction• Give examples of different types of
work and have the students discuss how to improve the writing