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Key Idea
Flexible
Assessment
Traits
RESEARCH BASED

• In order to get to your destination, you need
  an appropriate vehicle with all the necessary
  moving parts

Process
Correlated
Domains
K-12
EASY
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Domains
EASY
Process
Flexible
RESEARCH-BASED
Correlated
Traits
Assessment
K-12
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Objectives

• 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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Universal, mutual commitment

• 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!

Year One Results Teacher confidence Writing
scores 2 API 850 - 917 Closed the math gap
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CST Writing ( Students Scoring 5-8)
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Discovering the TraitsWhat is good writing?
Strong transitions
Thought provoking
Irony
IDEAS
ORGANIZATION
CONVENTIONS
Sentences flow
Specific nouns
Logical sequence
Metaphor
Punctuation
Personality
Tone
Different sentence types
VOICE
SENTENCE FLUENCY
WORD CHOICE
Goes somewhere
Personification
Engaging lead
Attitude!
Motivation
Colorful verbs
Neatness
Sentences have rhythm
Interesting
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Making a Difference Climbing the Ladder to
Success With the Traits
Voice
Write Traits
Sentence Fluency
Word Choice
KABLOOEY!
Technically Sound Writing
Sound Writing
Conventions
Technically
Typical Models
Organization
Ideas
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How do you teach writers VOICE?
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Good VOICE is builtupon three other traits
VOICE
You change your voice!
WORD CHOICE
SENTENCE FLUENCY
IDEAS
When you change these. . .
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The Writing Process
voice
Traits help us to understand how the writing
process works!
ideas
organization
Prewrite
conventions
voice
ideas
Publish
Final Draft
Draft
sentence fluency
word choice
ideas
sentence fluency
Revise/Edit
conventions
organization
word choice
voice
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The Big Idea Whenever you execute one of the
steps in the writing process, you are
manipulating one or more traits!
voice
ideas
organization
Prewrite
conventions
voice
ideas
Publish
Final Draft
Draft
sentence fluency
word choice
ideas
sentence fluency
Revise/Edit
conventions
organization
word choice
voice
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Activity Recap

• Day 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
ELWhat about non-writers?
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Trait-based instruction can reach everyone
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Hungry for more information? Lets sink our
teeth into another key concept!
Recipes
Kick it up another notch!
BAM!
French Food
Proportion
Season
Sea Food
Sauté
The Master Chef
Chinese Food
Select Ingredients
Italian Food
Blizzard, 2006
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Narrative
IDEAS
Expository
ORGANIZATION
BAM?
Descriptive
VOICE
Reflective
SENTENCE FLUENCY
Response to Lit.
The Master Writer !
WORD CHOICE
Persuasive
CONVENTIONS
Research Report
Blizzard, 2006
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Narrative
Ideas Entertaining
Org Chronology (plot)
Voice Informal, authentic
WC Descriptive
SF Conversational, natural
Expository
Conv Quotation marks
Ideas Clear, relevant
Org Compare/Contrast
Voice Authoritative,credible
WC Content specific terms
SF Flowing, varied
Conv Semicolon, colon
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How Traits Relateto the StandardsA sample from
Michigan GLCEs grade 8
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Ideas
Conventions
Organization
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VOICE
IDEAS ORG
IDEAS ORG
IDEAS, ORG, VOICE, S.F., WORD CHOICE
CONVENTIONS
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VOICE
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CONVENTIONS
CONVENTIONS
CONVENTIONS
VOICE
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Scoring StudentsWriting in MichiganWhy
Trait-Based instructionwill drive-up your scores
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Tarantulas

• Tarantulas have 8 legs.
• Tarantulas blood can be blue, yellowor 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 tarantulas 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 youre hungry, its 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.IdeasVoiceWord Choice
W.A.C. Strategy
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• R
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Here are some examples
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www.greatsource.com/iwrite
Free go-to resources for great writing!
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Whats 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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Whats 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 man is nothing.
A woman without her, man is nothing.
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Writers Workshop
. . .
generate IDEAS
ORGANIZE IDEAS
Draft using IDEAS, ORGANIZATION WORD
CHOICE, SENTENCE FLUENCY, VOICE
Revise Edit for all 6 traits

• Time
• Structure
• Choice
• Mini-lessons
• Response/
• Sharing
• Conferences

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
Process orientation
Tools, environment, procedures
Genre
Topic/ IDEAS
VOICE
All 6 traits, esp. CONVENTIONS
ORGANIZATIONAL pattern
Common, trait-based writing language
Vicki Spandel What students can assess, they
can revise!
Common concept of quality writing