PDF 6 + 1 Traits of Writing Download
- Author: Ruth Culham
- Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
- ISBN: 9780439280389
- Category : Education
- Languages : en
- Pages : 308
Everything you need to teach and assess student writing with this powerful model.
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In this outstanding book, Betty offers scores of strategies for building strong writers in your classroom. You'll learn 3 key things to remember about each trait, great books for modeling the traits, how to provide valuable writing practice (without cutting into other learning time), how students can assess their own writing, and much more. Includes assessment rubrics and other reproducibles plus CD with writing samples and printable copies of the reproducibles.
"Checklists, Graphic Organizers, Rubrics, Scoring Sheets, and More to Boost Students' Writing Skills in All Seven Traits"--Cover.
What happens when a bestselling nonfiction children's book author pairs up with a nationally known writing teacher to discuss revision strategies? Magic. Sneed B. Collard III and Vicki Spandel blow the roof off everything you thought you knew about teaching nonfiction writing and the purposes for revision. Dozens of strategy lessons pulled from Sneed's professional writing experience followed by Vicki's classroom-savvy tips and exercises give you the nuts and bolts of teaching revision to make nonfiction writing more meaningful, useful, and enjoyable for the reader. Using a "big-to-small" process of revision, from Big Picture ideas down to individual words, Sneed and Vicki demystify revision and help students become clear, persuasive, compelling-even entertaining-writers. "With your encouragement and guidance," they write, "students will discover the joy of turning their first rough ideas into something readers cannot put down."
Presents summaries, lesson ideas, grade levels, ISBNs, and publisher information on books useful for teaching elementary and middle school students writing skills; arranges the texts by skill area, including voice, word choice, organization, and sentence fluency.