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Oct 9, 2014 · Bring Ruth Culham’s 6+1 Traits of Writing model to life!
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In 6+1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide: Grades 3 and Up, I outline how the 6+1 TRAIT model is more than an approach to teaching and assessing writing. It’s a vocabulary that teachers use to describe their vision of what good writing looks like—any kind of writing.
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- Trait One: Ideas
- Trait Two: Organization
- Trait Three: Voice
- Trait Four: Word Choice
- Trait Five: Sentence Fluency
- Trait Six: Conventions
- The Extra Trait: Presentation
- Using This Model in Your Classroom
- Some Final Advice
This trait makes up the bulk of the writing. It is the words on the paper, the main theme, and the details that support it. It involves showing the ideas to the reader, not telling them. An idea is only strong when the message is clear and organized well. This leads to the second key quality of quality writing, and that is organization. Learn how t...
This particular trait involves how you structure your piece of writing. It also involves the path guiding the central meaning, the pattern, and the sequence of a piece. Organization is only strong if it fits the ideas. The structure used can be comparison and contrast, deductive logic, analysis, central theme development, chronological history, or ...
Whenever a writer begins a piece, they write with a particular tone. This is known as their voice. This is where a piece of writing gets its heart, that individual piece of the writer that cannot be copied. When a writer is personally engaged with the topic, he will write with his personal tone, and that piece of writing becomes a part of them. Thi...
A writer’s choice of words can make a great difference in a work. Not only does word choice show functionality and an understanding of language, but it can move and inform the reader. There are word choices that should be used in all writing, but there are also word choices specific to different types of writing. Figurative language like metaphors,...
It’s important to know how the writing will sound along with how it will look. A piece without rhythm and flow can be awkward and slow a reader’s progress through the piece. Writing with cadence, rhythm, movement, and power will allow the writer to write fluidly, and the reader will be able to read the piece fluidly without pausing to say, “Wait, w...
This trait begins to deal with the mechanics of a piece. There are five elements involved with the conventions of a piece of writing: spelling, capitalization, grammar, punctuation, and paragraphing. If the piece has been proofread and edited, this shows an understanding of conventions. When teaching the conventions of writing to students, it’s imp...
In a nutshell, presentation can be seen as how the writing is viewed on paper. Someone whose handwriting is illegible can still likely have their writing rejected no matter how well constructed and vivid the writing is. There are specific guidelines that must be followed: balance of white space, neatness, handwriting or font selection, borders, gra...
There is no right way to begin using this model in your classroom, but there are plenty of teachers out there that have advice and tips to offer. Education Northwest has a great collection of words of wisdom from other teachers using the 6+1 Trait Writing model. It may just be in your best interest to check out what these teachers have to pass onto...
Don’t expect your students to understand and do something that you yourself don’t understand or do. Education Northwest has a great resource that allows teachers and students alike to practice their own skills for the 6+1 Trait Model. You practice each of the above traits of quality writing by reading through a summary on the quality and then choos...
In my book, 6+1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for Primary Grades, I outline a common vocabulary that captures the key characteristics of writing—specific traits that can be used as a foundation for writing instruction. Those traits include: Ideas: the meaning and development of the message; Organization: the internal structure of the ...
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Jul 3, 2023 · The 6+1 Writing Traits is a widely recognized framework developed by Ruth Culham to guide and assess the quality of writing using seven traits of writing. This comprehensive approach to teaching writing provides a writing model to improve writing skills and assess student writing.
6 + 1 Traits of Writing. No one creates trait materials like The Culham Writing Company. We have three families of materials for you to consider, beginning with these three core books.
Oct 23, 2019 · The six traits of writing model provides a recipe for successful prose writing. This approach defines the ingredients of effective writing for students to practice and teachers to assess, equipping both parties with tools for strategically analyzing written work.
