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Six Trait Writing: Continuing Our Conversations

Six Trait Writing: Continuing Our Conversations. Denise O’Brien ESU 10 November 23, 2011. Today’s Outcomes. NDE Update Personal Narrative Review the six traits Share resources and activities that support six trait writing in your classroom

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Six Trait Writing: Continuing Our Conversations

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  1. Six Trait Writing: Continuing Our Conversations Denise O’Brien ESU 10 November 23, 2011

  2. Today’s Outcomes • NDE Update • Personal Narrative • Review the six traits • Share resources and activities that support six trait writing in your classroom • Share technology tips and sites that can be incorporated to enhance writing instruction

  3. Self-assessment of Writing in My Classroom • Writing is not a regular part of my program and occurs sporadically throughout the year. • My students write once a week. • Daily lessons include writing assignments for my students. • Large blocks of time are allocated to student writing.

  4. NeSA-W • 2011 Testing Window: January 23- February 10 • May 2012- NeSA-W scores released • Analytic rubric available • Domains weighted (2013) • Content /ideas- 35% • Organization- 25% • Word choice/Voice- 20% • Conventions – 20% • 4th Grade will continue to be paper pencil

  5. Characteristics of Personal Narrative • Fabulous 4 • Use I or We • About incident that really happened • Beginning, Middle and End • Reflection

  6. Characteristics of Personal Narrative • Use I or we • Has voice • Has a reflection • About an incident that really happened • Appeals to senses • Logical sequence • Shows emotion or feelings • Has beginning, middle, and end • Strong Verbs • Usually in the past tense • Plenty of description • Often includes conversation • Shows more than tells • Might be embellished • Reflection

  7. The Reading-Writing Connection “Nobody but a reader ever became a writer” ~ Richard Peck “Long before writers can create their own text, they can learn what good writing is all about by hearing and loving the work of others.” ~Spandel & Stiggins, 1997

  8. Where do you begin? • Provide opportunities for your students to write often and for many purposes • Write with students • Model writing • Use the language of writing • Share books you love • Use think-alouds • Introduce the writing process to your students

  9. Emergent and Developing Writers Need . . . • Explicit instruction on writing skills and strategies • Opportunities to respond in lessons • Positive, corrective feedback on performance

  10. “…the keys to writing well:” • Have a strong, clear idea. • Use details and pictures to paint a picture in your reader’s mind. • Write with authority and voice. • Organize your information so that a reader can follow it. • Use words that make sense—and that are lively as well. • Write with fluency and variety—the way good dancers dance. • Make your conventions as strong as you can so that readers can figure out your message. Spandel, 2008, Creating Young Writers

  11. Teaching Skills and Strategies • Model I do it. • Prompt We do it. • Check You do it.

  12. Holdrege Elementary Writing Wiki http://holdregeelementarywriting.wikispaces.com/

  13. Ideas • The paper is focused, clear, and specific • It all makes sense • The topic is small enough to handle • There are important telling details that go beyond common knowledge • Clear • Interesting

  14. Ideas Lesson Using Literature to Enhance Writing Instruction ~ Rebecca Olness

  15. Technology Tips & Sites for Ideas • Use picture prompts • http://www.flickr.com • The Story Starter Jr. • http://www.thestorystarter.com/jr.htm • ToonDoo • http://www.toondoo.com/

  16. Organization • There is a snappy lead that gets the reader’s attention. • The paper is easy to follow. • Everything fits in the right place. • Provides connections. • Like a road map, easy to follow. • There is a graceful ending. It doesn’t just stop.

  17. Organization Lesson • Read The Gingerbread Man to the class. • Discuss the beginning, middle and end of the story with the class. • Use a paper that has been folded in thirds, demonstrate that the first section is for the first part of the story, the middle section is for the middle of the story, and the last section is for the end of the story. • Have students draw a picture of the beginning, middle, and end of the story in the appropriate space. Depending on the age and ability of the student, a few words or sentences can be added. Using Literature to Enhance Writing Instruction ~ Rebecca Olness

  18. Four Square for Organization

  19. Technology Tips & Sites for Organization • Graphic Organizers • http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer • Types and Examples of Transitions • http://bit.ly/pU1cKK • Use a picture prompt and have students write beginnings or endings for the picture. Capture their ideas on a Google Doc.

  20. Voice • It sounds like the particular writer. • The writer seems engaged, involved with the topic. • It brings the topic to life. • The paper is full of feelings. • It makes me respond – laugh, smile, cry, wince . . . • I want to read it aloud. • It has pizzazz!

  21. Voice Lesson • Read Fly Away Home and Smoky Night by Eve Bunting. • Have students work in pairs or groups to find the words used to convey the feelings in the book. • Chart the feeling words. Using Literature to Enhance Writing Instruction ~ Rebecca Olness

  22. Voice Lesson • Read Guess How Much I love You by Sam McBratney. Using Literature to Enhance Writing Instruction ~ Rebecca Olness

  23. Technology Tips & Sites for Voice • Idiom Site • http://www.idiomsite.com/ • The Writing Fix • http://writingfix.com/6_traits/voice.htm • The Writing Fix – Feeling Game • http://writingfix.com/forkids/feelinggame.htm • Skype: www.skype.com • Skype an Author Network • http://skypeanauthor.wetpaint.com/

  24. Word Choice • There are moments that stick with you. • There are strong verbs and precise nouns. • The words are colorful, snappy, vital, brisk and fresh. • The words create word pictures. • The words are just right. I do not choose the right word. I get rid of the wrong one. ~A.E. Housman

  25. Word Choice Lesson • Read Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson and Jane Chapman • Chart and discuss all of the “wow” words the students hear

  26. Word Choice • Rock or Pebble Game – Creating Writers, Spandel • Some words have muscle. They carry a lot weight. They have substance, meaning and impact. • Have an assortment of words and have children determine if the word is a “pebble” a vague word or a “rock” an impact word. • Make Word Posters

  27. Technology Tips & Sites for Word Choice • Wordle • http://www.wordle.net/ • Snappy Words • http://www.snappywords.com/ • Instant Poetry Forms • http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm • Synonyms for said • http://www.cyberspaces.net/6traits/

  28. Sentence Fluency • The paper is easy to read aloud. • There are some short and some long sentences. • Sentence beginnings vary; they show how ideas connect. • There are carefully crafted sentences. • There is consistency in tense. • The paper flows.

  29. Lesson Ideas for Sentence Fluency • Have students list or circle the first word in each sentence they have written. • Have students count the words in each sentence and make a list. • Phone Yourself • Have students read their work into phonics phone.

  30. Sample Word Choice Lessons • I Caught It by Sarah Barchas • http://writingfix.com/6_Traits/Primary/I_caught_it.htm • Owl Moon by Jane Yolen • http://writingfix.com/Process/Revision/Owl_Moon.htm

  31. Conventions • The paper looks clean, edited and proofread. • Capital letters are used correctly. • Punctuation was used correctly. • Spelling is accurate. • Paragraphs are indented. • The writer used good grammar. • The reader does not need to do any mental editing.

  32. Lesson Ideas for Conventions • Model, model, model • Keep expectations realistic • Use word banks or personal dictionaries • Ask students to double-space • Give students editing practice often • Teach editor’s symbols • Have students read their writing aloud

  33. Literature Resources • Picture Books for Teaching Six Trait Writing • http://bit.ly/cOtrcH • Writing Fix Teacher Lessons • http://writingfix.com/ By reading literature often and widely students more readily learn to write. ~Rebecca Olness

  34. Sites to Check Out • Holdrege Elementary Writing Wiki • http://holdregeelementarywriting.wikispaces.com/ • ESU 4 Six Trait Writing Wiki • http://esu4sixtraitwriting.wikispaces.com/ • ESU 3 K-2 Six Trait Writing Wiki • http://writingextravaganza3.wikispaces.com/Six+Traits+K-2 • ESU 3 3-6 Six Trait Writing Wiki • http://writingextravaganza3.wikispaces.com/Six+Traits+3-6

  35. 8 Things You Can Do Right Now • Be a collector. • Be a reader. • Form a network. • Post the traits in your room. • Model (be a writer yourself). • Have your students write, write, and write more. • Include parents.

  36. Contact Information Denise O’Brien ESU 10 dobrien@esu10.org 308-237-5927

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