The 6 + 1 Traits of Writing: Everything You Need to Teach and Assess Student Writing with This Powerful Model: 0 (Theory and Practice)

A very complete,clearly laid out and easy to follow teacher resource.I highly recommend it for beginner teachers who may be unsure of their own writing abilities,this will guide them along with their students how to improve.

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.

Well laid out and easy to follow with many concrete examples to clarify author's points. I'd highly recommend this book.

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.

Very helpful

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.