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Using a Six-Trait Model to Extend Students Writing, Grades K-2 - Online Course [OWSB] | BER Online PD for Educators

Using a Six-Trait Model to Extend Students Writing, Grades K-2

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In this course you'll observe children in grades K-2 classrooms in the spring of the year as teachers support and scaffold their writing development using the six traits of effective writing. These young authors began writing on the very first day of school and have been participating every day in writing workshop and six trait writing activities and lessons.

This course contains a variety of teaching strategies that focus on each of the six traits. You'll observe age-appropriate instruction, scaffolding, and writing experiences for kindergarten, first and second grade learners. You'll also see how intertwined and interdependent the traits are and how they artfully combine to create effective student writing.

You will learn how to:

  • Make excellent use of children's literature to determine how effectively authors have used the six writing traits
  • Expand students' repertoire of organizational frameworks for writing
  • Implement a variety of word choice strategies that enliven primary students' writing with vivid and interesting words
  • Engage even your most reluctant writers with prompts designed to generate high levels of voice
  • Create editing tasks that reinforce students' accuracy and correctness
  • Introduce students to the trait of fluency and guide their early experiences with this aspect of writing
  • Teach primary-age children how to revise for targeted writing traits
  • Extend students' writing progress well beyond introductory levels
  • Nurture children's increasing independence as writers.

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