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Scholastic Professional Books (2003), Edition: 59919th, 304 pages
Description
Describes six traits of good writing in any genre, including ideas, organizations, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and presentation, and offers advice for teachers on how to assess student writing using the 6 + 1 TRAIT model. Includes scoring guides, sample student papers, and focus lessons and activities.
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LibraryThing member puckrobin
Finally a resource for teaching writing that provides concrete strategies and exemplars of how to encourage a student's creativity AND to help them to develop solid skills in conventions of writing. Their website is great - lots of extra blackline masters and available tools (I'm a huge fan of
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their preprinted sticky notes because they help ME to focus on what I'm marking on any given round of evaluation). Culham made me feel excited to teach writing again, and for that I'm profoundly grateful for this book. Show Less
LibraryThing member elizabethjb
I really like how this book approaches writing by providing manageable chunks to focus lessons on. There were very good teaching ideas for voice trait, weak for organization trait. I haven't got to the rest of the traits yet. I found the scoring guides too general for marking, as they didn't match
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what I taught the students. To mark the voice trait I focused on more specific parts of writing e.g. presence of verbs, adjectives and adverbs and actual choice of those words, presence of a declarative phrase, presence of descriptions and how well they worked. Show Less
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Original language
English
Physical description
304 p.; 9.32 inches
ISBN
0439280389 / 9780439280389
UPC
785525138802