Traits of Good Writing, Grade 4

Traits of Good Writing, Grade 4
Author: Jennifer Overend Prior
Publisher: Shell Education
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2007-06-13
Genre: Composition (Language arts)
ISBN: 1425802346

Help students improve their writing skills by implementing useful strategies that can be used by today's teachers.

6 + 1 Traits of Writing

6 + 1 Traits of Writing
Author: Ruth Culham
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2003
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780439280389

Everything you need to teach and assess student writing with this powerful model.

Traits of Writing

Traits of Writing
Author: Ruth Culham
Publisher: Teaching Resources
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780545013635

Effective, easy-to-use tools for trait-based assessment and instruction--just for middle school teachers. Includes printable reproducible forms!

Using Art to Teach Writing Traits

Using Art to Teach Writing Traits
Author: Jennifer Klein
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2018-11-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475839944

Our purpose for writing this book is so that children can become better communicators by expressing their thoughts, feelings and ideas. The ability to communicate is a universal goal in society. If children can better communicate in their speaking and writing, clearer more precise messages will be received, and communication around the world will be strengthened. The writing traits are a way for teachers and children to discuss and analyze written pieces, for strengths and needs, in order communicate their thoughts and expresses their ideas through writing in a way that touches their audience. Adding art into this established process will allow children to learn about the writing traits in a text-free environment before applying the traits to their own writing. Children will learn how artists communicate their thoughts, feelings and ideas, and how the traits that writers use are similar to the traits that artists use in order to better communicate, express themselves, and process the world around them. In addition, we will discuss the revision and editing process. Art is an exciting and engaging subject for students. This book will allow children to transfer their knowledge of how artists use the traits, to how writers use the traits, and then to how they can utilize the traits in their own writing, to better communicate with their audience and process the world around them.

Traits of Good Writing, Grades 3-4

Traits of Good Writing, Grades 3-4
Author: Tracie Heskett
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2006-02-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1420635875

Emphasize the process of writing with practical, hands-on activities for each of the following writing traits: Ideas and Content, Word Choice, Fluency, Voice, Organization, Conventions, and Presentation. Each trait section includes student samples and reproducible student pages.

Using Benchmark Papers to Teach Writing with the Traits

Using Benchmark Papers to Teach Writing with the Traits
Author: Ruth Culham
Publisher: Teaching Resources
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Composition (Language arts)
ISBN: 9780545138413

Trait expert Ruth Culham has created a diverse set of papers grades 3-5, assessed and annotated them, and designed an interactive whiteboard CD of exemplars so teachers and students can use them as the focus of trait-based writing instruction. The papers are highlighted by key quality for each trait, making it easy for writers to see what works and what doesn't by simply pressing the color-coded buttons at the bottom of each projected paper on the white board. Can be used with overhead projectors as well.

7 Good Writing Traits!

7 Good Writing Traits!
Author: Scholastic Inc
Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9780439492263

Seven charts noting each of the good writing traits.

A Good Kind of Trouble

A Good Kind of Trouble
Author: Lisa Moore Ramée
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2019-03-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0062836706

From debut author Lisa Moore Ramée comes this funny and big-hearted debut middle grade novel about friendship, family, and standing up for what’s right, perfect for fans of Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give and the novels of Renée Watson and Jason Reynolds. Twelve-year-old Shayla is allergic to trouble. All she wants to do is to follow the rules. (Oh, and she’d also like to make it through seventh grade with her best friendships intact, learn to run track, and have a cute boy see past her giant forehead.) But in junior high, it’s like all the rules have changed. Now she’s suddenly questioning who her best friends are and some people at school are saying she’s not black enough. Wait, what? Shay’s sister, Hana, is involved in Black Lives Matter, but Shay doesn't think that's for her. After experiencing a powerful protest, though, Shay decides some rules are worth breaking. She starts wearing an armband to school in support of the Black Lives movement. Soon everyone is taking sides. And she is given an ultimatum. Shay is scared to do the wrong thing (and even more scared to do the right thing), but if she doesn't face her fear, she'll be forever tripping over the next hurdle. Now that’s trouble, for real. "Tensions are high over the trial of a police officer who shot an unarmed Black man. When the officer is set free, and Shay goes with her family to a silent protest, she starts to see that some trouble is worth making." (Publishers Weekly, "An Anti-Racist Children's and YA Reading List")