Writing traits

Do you use the 6-Traits of Writing in the classroom? The 6-Traits of writing can help guide students to have all the components in their writing and improve their overall writing score. I created a few sets of 6-Traits Writing posters. These 6-Trait Writing Posters can jazz up your writing bulletin board. Each poster displays one of the 6-Traits of Writing. Also included is a checklist for students to make sure they covered all the traits in their writing. Store the checklist in students'…

characteristics of good writing

As we have entered the month of August, every teacher, whether she likes it or not, starts thinking about school. Some of us have dreams (or nightmares). Some of us go on a Pinterest spree. We walk through Target and ask ourselves "What do I 'need' from the dollar section?" You don't do this? Okay, maybe it's just me. Anyway, we are also thinking about what were some of our students' challenges last year, and how we will address them this year. My third and fourth graders had difficulty with…

Today I'm talking about using the 6+1 Traits of Writing. Why do I teach with the Traits? It works perfectly with the B.C. Curriculum. Students get it. It breaks the writing process down into steps we can layer up all year. That means writing doesn't seem like such a large task. And that means, kids will usually write more because they feel a whole lot less overwhelmed. Sounds pretty good to me! Here is the writing board in my classroom. A large portion of it is taken up by my 6 Traits…

This pedagogical article discusses characteristics of struggling writers, the 6 Traits of Writing, using writing scaffolds, and other strategies for improving student writing.

Character Traits-Character Map - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. This document lists over 100 character traits that could be used to describe the personality of a character in a story. Some of the traits included are afraid, angry, artistic, athletic, awesome, beautiful, bold, bored, bossy, brave, brilliant, busy, calm, careful, charming, cheerful, curious, dishonest, disrespectful, embarrassed, evil, exciting, fair, fearful, foolish, friendly…

In the past I used to focus on teaching various forms of writing that I was told were important to teach (letter writing, procedural writing, recounts etc.). I never quite understood why I was supposed to spend so much time on making sure all student’s writing would essentially look and sound basically the same. The […]

It's Writing Workshop Wednesday! I am so excited to share what we have been working on! We have been really digging into the traits of writing. We have been especially focusing on voice and we have had

Seven toxic seniors were leeching off of their classmates' hard work during group projects to maintain their grades, and the other kids were too nervous and scared to do something about it. So their teacher took action.