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6 + 1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide: Grades 3 & Up: Everything You Need to Teach and Assess Student Writing with This Powerful Model Paperback – 1 January 2003

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Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Conventions, and Presentation. Look at good writing in any genre, and you'll find these traits. Think of them as the fuel that stokes the engine of writing. With this book, teachers will learn how to assess student work for these traits and plan instruction. And they'll be amazed at how the writing in their classroom improves. Includes scoring guides, focus lessons, and activities for teaching each trait.
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    1 January 2003
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    6+1 Traits Of Writing
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    English
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    18.9 x 1.93 x 23.67 cm
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Ruth Culham, Ed.D., is the president of the Culham Writing Company and former Unit Manager of the Assessment Program at Education Northwest in Portland, Oregon. She is the recognized expert in the traits of writing field and author of many professional resources published by Scholastic, including 6]1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide, Grades 3 and Up; 6+1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for the Primary Grades; and Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for Middle School, winner of the 2011 Teacher's Choice award. As a pioneering researcher in this field, Ruth creates and conducts teacher workshops to provide professional development at local, district, and state levels; at state and national conferences she's a featured speaker on teaching writing using the traits. The highlight of her 19-year teaching career was being named English Teacher of the Year in Montana. But most recently, she'd proudest of authoring Traits Writing, a revolutionary writing program for grades K-8 available from Scholastic.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scholastic Professional (1 January 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0439280389
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0439280389
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 8 - 18 years
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 18.9 x 1.93 x 23.67 cm
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RUTH CULHAM, EdD, launched a writing revolution with the publication of her book 6+1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide, Grades 3 and Up, followed by 6+1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for the Primary Grades and Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for Middle School, winner of the 2011 Teacher's Choice award. Her groundbreaking work with the writing traits is the culmination of 40 years of research, practice, and passion. Ruth has published the bestselling The Writing Thief: Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writing that demonstrates how to read with a writer's eye to lift the best writing techniques from favorite authors. Ruth has also penned Dream Wakers: Mentor Texts That Celebrate Latino Culture to support the reading and writing relationship using high quality diverse texts. Ruth's professional books have illuminated both writing traits and the reading-writing connection for countless educators around the globe.

Her many professional resources include the immensely popular, grade-specific Trait Crates that use beautiful children's literature titles to spotlight and teach each writing trait and drive home the reading-writing connection. Ruth's ground-breaking, TEACH WRITING WELL, her newest and most thorough professional text, enhances teachers' professional understanding of teaching writing by unlocking the secrets of revision in its two-part approach: read the writing--teach the writer.

Ruth is a contributor to The Reading Teacher and Educational Leadership. She travels extensively delivering highly energetic and well-received workshops and keynotes. Ruth was English Teacher of the Year in Montana, one of the highlights of her 19-year teaching career. Culham holds specialty degrees in Library Science and Elementary, Middle, and Secondary English Education.

Check out her website at www.culhamwriting.com for more information on all of her exemplary professional books, services, and curricular resources.

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Larilia Soprano
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El libro está bien, pero me ha llegado hoy, cuando todo lo demás llegó hace más de 2 meses y medio !!! Por eso pongo pocas estrellas en la puntuación.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Useful addition to educator's library!
Reviewed in Canada on 13 September 2018
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Well laid out and easy to follow with many concrete examples to clarify author's points. I'd highly recommend this book.
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L. Caza
5.0 out of 5 stars the teacher of the school (who didn't like to teach composition)
Reviewed in the United States on 3 January 2016
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I used this book to teach writing at a small private school of about 12 kids. I'm not a teacher by profession, but because I had home-schooled my kids for 18 yrs., the teacher of the school (who didn't like to teach composition), gave me the job and said design my own program. I'm thankful for this book. The kids said they hated to write. I got them each a designer pencil of something they liked and cut off the erasers. They could only use their special pencil for writing class. After a short time, these kids were so excited about writing! The teacher said she noticed the improvement in their writing skills.

I got this copy for my grand kids whom I was recently visiting. My daughter home-schools and told me they don't like to write. I got a prompt online, and we all sat down for a 4 minute write. They were so excited about their little papers! They read them to my son-in-law when he got home and had him write one too.

This program teaches kids to write and then to take care of editing later. The freedom to get your ideas down without having everything scrutinized is amazingly freeing. Once they realize it's ok not to have the grammar and spelling perfect, writing becomes a joy. Anyone can go back and fix spelling and even professional writers have editors. What we need to do is learn to get our own unique ideas down first and let the editing be used for the works worth sprucing up. This is not a text book; it is a how-to book for the instructor, so you can use it for any age.

My sister is a principle of an award-winning elementary school. I told her about this program, and she said they pay for their teachers to go for the training. That would have been wonderful, but even with just the book, I felt successful in teaching writing.
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G. Poirier
5.0 out of 5 stars New english teacher found this book invaluable
Reviewed in the United States on 18 April 2004
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I started teaching high school english this year and ordered this book because our district uses the 6 traits to assess the students' biannual writing tests. I decided I should teach them what they'd be tested on...
This book has really taught me a lot about using the traits. Each chapter is very in depth and has good examples. There are sample lesson plans and suggestions on ways to emphasize each of the traits.
I like the traits because it's a great way to break writing into manageable parts. I'm not just telling my students they got a "C" on a paper. Instead, I'm telling them they wrote a paper that has some strengths and some weaknesses. Further, I can tell them where the weaknesses are and what I think they should do to improve it.
But, maybe the best thing is that I am teaching them to score each other's papers and it guides their thinking and scoring. There's a companion book of worksheets and other reproducibles that is almost a must have because it includes rubrics and scoring sheets for students to use.
My only wish is that there was a separate book for secondary students. The standards for writing are different. But, even still, this book does cover secondary teaching and I find it very useful.
I highly recommend this book if you want to teach your students to be better writers.
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