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good writing
Read this:
I always did well on essay tests. Just put everything you
know on there, maybe youll hit it. And then you get the
paper back from the teacher and shes written just one
word across the entire page, vague.
I thought vague
was kind of vague. Id write underneath it unclear and
send it back. Shes return it to me, ambiguous. Id send it
back to her, cloudy. Were still corresponding to this
day. hazy. muddy
Jerry Seinfeld (SeinLanguage)
The 6 traits +1
Ideas
Organization
Voice
Word Choice
Sentence Fluency
Conventions
+ 1 Presentation
Purpose
The purpose of using The Writing Process and The Six
Traits is to give teachers and students the same language
and expectations of writing. We want students to
develop writing skills and transfer them to any other
subject matter, whenever writing is used, not just within
their language arts experience.
Sounds familiar..
Warm-Up Writing
Task:
Create something with the lump of
clay on your desk.
Reflecting
Presenting/
Publishing
Editing
Revising
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Traits help us to
understand how
organization
Prewrite
the writing process
works!
ideas
conventions
Final Draft
ideas
Publish
ideas
sentence
fluency
Draft
sentence
fluency
Revise/Edit
organization
voice
word choice
conventions
word choice
voice
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organization
ideas
conventions
Final Draft
ideas
Publish
ideas
sentence
fluency
Draft
sentence
fluency
Revise/Edit
organization
voice
word choice
conventions
word choice
voice
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Recipes
BAM!
French Food
Proportion
Season
Saut
Select Ingredients
Sea Food
Chinese Food
Italian Food
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Narrative
IDEAS
Expository
ORGANIZATION
BAM?
Descriptive
VOICE
Reflective
SENTENCE FLUENCY
The Master Writer !
Response to Lit.
WORD CHOICE
Persuasive
CONVENTIONS
Research Report
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Prewriting
Think, Think, Think
Who is my audience?
What is my purpose?
What do I want to say?
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Narrative
Ideas: Entertaining
Org: Chronology (plot)
Voice: Informal, authentic
WC: Descriptive
SF: Conversational, natural
Conv: Quotation marks
Expository
Ideas: Clear, relevant
Org: Compare/Contrast
Voice: Authoritative, credible
WC: Content specific terms
SF: Flowing, varied
Conv: Semicolon, colon
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Protagonist:
Antagonist:
B. Setting
C. Theme
1. Motivation
D. Plot
2. Conflict:
man vs. man
man vs. environment
man vs. himself
man vs. animal
3. Complication
4. Suspense
5. Climax
6. Outcome
7. Denouement
Sequence
of Events
Narrative Text
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Teaching Organization
Teach connectors and their purpose
Transitions Charts
Cause and Effect
Compare/Contrast
Conclude/summarize
Opposition
Since
Due to
As a result
Similarily
In comparison
But
Although
Despite
To conclude
In short
As a conclusion
Therefore
Consequently
Because
Like
Similar to
However
Nevertheless
In spite of
Briefly
In conclusion
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Teaching Organization
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
are created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of
Happiness
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Teaching Organization
Look to authors for examples of conclusions.
A surprise
Once again the tarot cards lay before him. Once
again the bells ring twelve times. At the stroke
of midnight, he flipped over the first card. It
was
THE SERVANT.
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Drafting
Now that you know what you are writing about,
start writing
Do not worry about- grammar errors, or spelling
errors.
Just get your thoughts down!!!!
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Defining Voice
A writer should:
Write honestly and from the heart
Interact with the reader *without using YOU
Use language that brings the topic to life
Care about topic
Use expression to voice personality
Voice is:
What the author has to say about the world
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Teaching Voice
"I have heard the word "sir," more often than I have
heard the word "friend," but I suppose there are
other rewards for wealth.
"No matter what our facades, we are all children."
"I was born into a position of extreme wealth, but I
have spent many sleepless nights thinking about
extreme poverty."
"I have lived a lot, trembled a lot, was surrounded
by little men who forgot that we entered naked and
exit naked and that no accountant can audit life in
our favor."
"When I was a boy, I was told that the Lord
fashioned us from His own image, that's when I
decided to manufacture mirrors."
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R.A.F.T.
Ideas
Voice
Word Choice
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R ole
Audience
F ormat
T echnique
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Role
Audience
Nonvascular plant
Role
Cube
Stratus cloud
Audience
Square
Format
Letter
Format
Dialogue
Technique
Persuade
Technique
Instructions
Role
Audience
Role
Little fish
Friend
Audience
Rainbow Fish
Format
Format
Note
Technique
To inform
Technique
To persuade
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VOICE
WORD
CHOICE IDEAS
SENTENCE
FLUENCY
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Revising
A- add. What do you need to add to the
paper to make if flow better (think about
transitions and any lack of facts)
R- Remove- remove any unnecessary
information
M- Move- what information would go
better in another spot. Make sure that all
of your paragraphs are on the same topic.
S- Start over. If you paper/paragraph isnt
working start over
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Editing
Correct your work
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Editing
Correct your work
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Content (ideas)
Organization
Editing
Spelling
Grammar
Punctuation
Capitalization
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Conventions
A woman, without her man,
is nothing.
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Publishing
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PRESENTATION
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