WRITING ACROSS

THE CURRICULUMSTRATEGIES, TOOLS, TIPS, COMMON LANGUAGE

USING 6 TRAIT WRITING IN ALL AREAS• IDEAS

• ORGANIZATION

• SENTENCE FLUENCY

• CONVENTIONS

• WORD CHOICE

• VOICE

HOW DO WE TEACH THESE TRAITS???START SIMPLE – MODEL FOR STUDENTS AND PRACTICE WITH THEM

WRITING ROUTINE FOLDERSTopic: What are we writing about?

Audience: Who are we writing for?

Key Words: Important words from the prompt that direct you what to write about.

BRAINSTORM – TOPIC WEB

Topic

Info

Relating

to

the

Topic

Many ideas

ORGANIZE AND CLASSIFY

• GROUP SUBTOPICS FROM THE WEB

• CLASSIFY THESE GROUPS INTO “BIG IDEAS”

BODY OUTLINEBig Idea 1 Subtopic list

Big Idea 2 Subtopic list

Big Idea 3 Subtopic list

TOPIC SENTENCES

Simple Declarative Sentence

Number Sentence

Quality QuestionSituation, Stance

Sentence

Topic

MOVING ON….

• WORD CHOICE

• VOICE

• CONVENTIONS

• SENTENCE FLUENCY

WORD CHOICE

• HAVE THESAURUSES AVAILABLE AND USE THEN REGULARLY

• BRAINSTORM WORD SUBSTITUTES FOR COMMON NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES

• PRACTICE “SHOWING” NOT TELLING

VOICE

• YOUR PERSONALITY IN YOUR WRITING

• CAN USE PERSONAL THOUGHTS OR EXPERIENCES

• YOUR POINT OF VIEW

CONVENTIONS

• HIGH EXPECTATIONS – ALL THE TIME!!!!!

• PROVIDE TEACHING MOMENTS ALL THE TIME

• PEER REVIEWS AND EDITING

SENTENCE FLUENCY

• VARYING SENTENCE LENGTHS

• VARYING SENTENCE STRUCTURES

• LOOK AT BEGINNING WORDS

SENTENCE FLUENCY CHARTSentence # # of Words in

the sentenceFirst Word in the Sentence

Verbs used End punctuation

FEW TIPS

• HAVE STUDENTS WRITE DAILY!!!!!• WHEN IT SEEMS UNCLEAR, MODEL AND WORK WITH THEM FOR

CLARIFICATION

DEADLY DUO

• STUDENTS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BEGIN SENTENCES WITH “THERE ARE” OR “THERE IS”

WORK TOGETHER

• TEAM UP WITH OTHERS

• LANGUAGE ARTS TEACHERS ARE YOUR FRIENDS

RECAP• 6 TRAITS

• WRITING ROUTINE FOLDERS – IDEAS, ORGANIZATION

• WORD CHOICE- TEACH REGULARLY

• VOICE- PRACTICE

• SENTENCE FLUENCY- ANALYZE SENTENCES

• CONVENTIONS- HIGH EXPECTATIONS

• SEEK OTHERS