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Welcome!from your partners at
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are available by email .Send all requests to. . .
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K-12EASY
Process
Tra
its
Flexib
le
Key Idea:
In order to get to your destination, you need an appropriate vehicle with all the necessary moving parts
RESEARCH BASED
Assessment
Correlated
Do
main
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K-12
EA
SY
Process
Traits
Do
main
s
RESEARCH-BASED
Assessm
ent
Correlated
Flexib
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• Provide you with a deeper understanding of these elements
• Demonstrate how to integrate these elements to achieve results
Allow me to begin with a quick, relevant story. . .
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Year One Results:Teacher confidenceWriting scores #2API 850 - 917Closed the “math gap”
Our Goals:
•Cover all 6 traits. . . . . .within the writing process!
•Teach all forms of writing
•Address writing as thinking!
•Make writing instruction (and grading) easy across the curriculum!
Universal,
mutual
commitment
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0 10 20 30 40
Cent.
Cole
CH
DC
Garf.
MV
RV
2005CST2004CST
CST Writing: (% Students Scoring 5-8)
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Tone
Attitude!
Personality
Sentences flow
Goes somewhere
Strong transitionsIrony
Colorful verbs
Specific nouns
Logical sequence
Engaging lead
Neatness
Punctuation
Sentences have rhythm
Thought provoking
Motivation
Interesting
Metaphor
Personification
Different sentence types
IDEAS ORGANIZATION
VOICESENTENCE FLUENCY WORD CHOICE
CONVENTIONS
Discovering the Traits:What is good writing?
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WriteTraits
“Technically Sound Writing”
Voice
Word Choice
Sentence Fluency
Organization
Ideas
ConventionsTypicalModels“Technically
Sound Writing”
KABLOOEY!
Making a Difference:
Climbing the Ladder to SuccessWith the Traits
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How do you teach writer’s VOICE?
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Good VOICE is builtupon three other traits
VOICE
IDEASSENTENCEFLUENCY
WORDCHOICE
When you change these. . .
You change your “voice!”
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The Writing Process
Draft
Revise/Edit
Final Draft
Prewrite
Publish
ideasorganization
word choice
voice
conventions
sentence fluency
ideas
organization
ideas
word choicevoice
sentence fluency
voice
Traits help us to understand how
the writing process works!
conventions
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voice
Draft
Revise/Edit
Final Draft
Prewrite
Publish
ideasorganization
word choice
voice
conventions
sentence fluency
ideas
organization
ideas
word choicevoice
sentence fluency
The Big Idea:Whenever you execute one of the steps in the writing process, you are manipulating one or more traits!
conventions
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Activity RecapDay One: Prewriting
• Brainstorm and ORGANIZE your IDEAS while. . .
• considering your audience (birthplace of VOICE)
Day Two: Drafting
• Write the sentence/select the right WORD CHOICE to carry your message
• write structurally sound sentence(s)—SENTENCE FLUENCY
Day Three: Revision
• Revise for any TRAITS you wish
• Show them. . . then let them (Students work with partners)
Day Four: Editing
• Students exchange papers and locate mistakes (CONV.)
Day Five: Publishing
• Students share their work with others
• Share first drafts and final drafts together
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Using Traits and Process withPrimary and EL:
What about non-writers?
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Trait-based instruction can reach
everyone
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French Food
Chinese Food
Italian Food
Sea Food
The Master Chef
BAM!
Kick it up another notch!
Recipes
Proportion
Season
Sauté
Select Ingredients
Hungry for more information?
Let’s sink our teeth into another key concept!
Blizzard, 2006
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The Master Writer !
Narrative
Descriptive
Response to Lit.
Research Report
IDEAS
ORGANIZATION
VOICE
SENTENCE FLUENCY
WORD CHOICE
CONVENTIONS
Expository
Reflective
“BAM”?
Persuasive
Blizzard, 2006
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ExpositoryIdeas: Clear, relevant
Org: Compare/ContrastVoice: Authoritative,credible
WC: Content specific termsSF: Flowing, varied
Conv: Semicolon, colon
NarrativeIdeas: Entertaining
Org: Chronology (plot)Voice: Informal, authentic
SF: Conversational, naturalConv: Quotation marks
WC: Descriptive
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How Traits Relateto the Standards
A sample from Michigan GLCEs grade 8
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voice
Draft
Revise/Edit
Final Draft
Prewrite
Publish
ideasorganization
word choice
voice
conventions
sentence fluency
ideas
organization
ideas
word choicevoice
sentence fluency
conventions Organization
Conventions
Ideas
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VOICE
IDEAS &ORG
IDEAS & ORG
IDEAS, ORG, VOICE, S.F., WORD CHOICE
CONVENTIONS
voice
Draft
Revise/Edit
Final Draft
Prewrite
Publish
ideasorganization
word choice
voice
conventions
sentence fluency
ideas
organization
ideas
word choicevoice
sentence fluency
conventions
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VOICE
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CONVENTIONS
CONVENTIONS
CONVENTIONS
VOICE
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Scoring Students’Writing in Michigan
Why Trait-Based instructionwill drive-up your scores
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MICHIGAN TRAITS OF EFFECTIVE WRITING
The writing is exceptionally engaging, clear and focused. Ideas and content are thoroughly developed with relevant details and examples where appropriate.
Ideas – Clear, unique, interesting thoughts.Voice – Personality, attitude, and enthusiasm. Correct for audience and
The writer’s control over organization and the connections between ideas moves the reader smoothly and naturally through the next.
Organization – Engaging lead, conclusion, and transitions. A pattern that fits the topic.
The writing is exceptionally engaging, clear, and focused. The writer shows a mature command of language including precise word choice that results in a compelling piece of writing.
Voice – Personality, attitude, and enthusiasm. Correct for audience and purpose.Word Choice – Precise nouns, specific verbs. Few, well-honed modifiers.Sentence fluency – Different lengths and types of sentences “flow”. Sentence beginnings vary.
Tight control over language use and mastery of writing conventions contribute to the effect of the response.
Conventions – Free of errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling and grammar.
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Tarantulas • Tarantulas have 8 legs.
• Tarantulas’ blood can be blue, yellow—or clear.
• Some people eat tarantulas. When you cook them, their hair falls off.
• Tarantulas are spiders, not mammals.
• Tarantulas have eight eyes, but are almost blind.
• A tarantula’s stomach is in its head.
• Tarantulas eat insects and other things.
• Sometimes, tarantulas will eat their own injured legs.
• Tarantulas smell with their feet.
• Tarantulas use blood pressure, not muscles, to move their legs.
• Tarantulas frighten some people.
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Tarantulas
Be a true-blue (blooded) arachnid!
Make a habit of showing-up for dinner underdressed.
Besides, if you think you’re hungry, it’s all in your head anyway. . .
Get a leg-up on your high blood pressure without ever working out at the gym (Muscles are sooo overrated!)
Learn to love the pungent smell of your shoes’ insoles
(or learn to get along without any)
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R.A.F.T.IdeasVoice
Word Choice
W.A.C. Strategy
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R
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T
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udience
ormat
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Here are some examples:
Role Nonvascular plant
Audience Stratus cloud
Format Letter
Technique Persuade
Role Cube
Audience Square
Format Dialogue
Technique Instructions
Role Boston Tea Party Raider
Audience Friend
Format Email
Technique To inform
Role Little fish
Audience Rainbow Fish
Format Note
Technique To persuade
Shortcut to Gravitropism 2.doc.lnk
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www.greatsource.com/iwrite
Free go-to resources for great writing!
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What’s here for Students?
• Interactive tutorials • Step-by-step
instructions for a variety of writing assignments
• Grammar Handbook• Places to Publish• Contest
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What about Parents?• Tips for helping
kids excel on writing tests
• Ideas for giving children feedback on writing
• Link to the Parent Store for great writing resources
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What’s here for Educators?
• Tutorials and templates
• Minilessons• Ask the Expert• 6-Trait rubrics• Writing Prompts• Links to state writing
standards
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The Importance of Conventions
A woman without her manis nothing.
A woman: without her, man is nothing.
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• Time • Structure • Choice• Mini-lessons• Response/ Sharing• Conferences
Writer’s Workshop
is an excellent format for the delivery of writing instruction.provides the structure, but not the content for instruction. fully involves and supports the writing process.is usually composed of the following common elements:
. . .ORGANIZE IDEAS
generate IDEASDraft using:
IDEAS,ORGANIZATIONWORD CHOICE,
SENTENCE FLUENCY,VOICE
Revise & Editfor all 6 traits
Process –orientationTools, environment,
proceduresGenre
Topic/IDEAS VOICE
ORGANIZATIONALpattern
All 6 traits, esp. CONVENTIONS
Common, trait-based writing language
Common concept ofquality writing
Vicki Spandel:“What students
can assess, they can revise!”