Creating Young Writers: Using the Six Traits to Enrich Writing Process in Primary Classrooms , 3/e gives new and experienced K-3 teachers the most comprehensive guide available to using the highly popular six-traits approach to writing. Well-respected author Vicki Spandel presents an in-depth look at the writing process and how it connects to the six traits, while encouraging them to write continuously with students and model their own personal writing process. The book is a goldmine of activities, strategies, and lesson ideas ideal for use in the K-3 classroom or as part of a study group.   Here’s what’s new:   ·         NEW! All information pertaining to a given trait–rubrics, papers, lessons, and book recommendation–appears in one place.   ·         NEW! Primary writing guides have been revised to make assessment easy.   ·         NEW! Advanced writing guides for young writers who are ready are now included.   ·         NEW! Trait-inspired lessons systematically build skills in prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing.   ·         NEW! Brand new book recommendations include suggestions for linking reading and writing.   ·         NEW! New lessons specifically designed to make modeling simple and comfortable–even for new teachers.   ·         NEW! Each new sample paper has its own lessons to teach.   ·         NEW! Specific suggestions show how to make workshop and process work in your particular teaching style.   ·         NEW! New and expanded discussion questions and activities at the end of each chapter make this edition ideal for use as a classroom or study group text.   ·         NEW! Keys to Success suggestions embedded within each chapter help teachers make the most of every strategy or lesson.

Product Description: Challenge students to be daring, creative, and confident revisers and editors with the help of writing expert Vicki Spandel!   Based on its highly successful parent texts, Creating Writers and Creating Young Writers, this new grade-level series Creating 6-Trait Revisers and Editors offers teachers a fresh, multi-level lesson series written for the second grade through eighth grade classroom...read more

Product Description: Challenge students to be daring, creative, and confident revisers with the help of writing expert Vicki Spandel!   Based on its highly successful parent texts, Creating Writers and Creating Young Writers, this new grade-level series Creating 6-Trait Revisers and Editors offers teachers a fresh, multi-level lesson series written for the second grade through eighth grade classroom...read more

Product Description: Challenge students to be daring, creative, and confident revisers and editors with the help of writing expert Vicki Spandel!   Based on its highly successful parent texts, Creating Writers and Creating Young Writers, this new grade-level series Creating 6-Trait Revisers and Editors offers teachers a fresh, multi-level lesson series written for the second grade through eighth grade classroom...read more

Product Description: Written by the pioneer of 6-trait writing, this fifth edition brings everything up to date, offering a comprehensive overview of the best education strategies and philosophies of writing assessment and instruction. It provides clear guidelines on helping students draft, assess, and revise their writing, as well as explicit criteria to show students precisely what they must do to succeed as writers in virtually any situation...read more

Product Description: Challenge students to be daring, creative, and confident revisers and editors with the help of writing expert Vicki Spandel!   Based on its highly successful parent texts, Creating Writers and Creating Young Writers, this new grade-level series Creating 6-Trait Revisers and Editors offers teachers a fresh, multi-level lesson series written for the second grade through eighth grade classroom...read more

Product Description: Challenge students to be daring, creative, and confident revisers with the help of writing expert Vicki Spandel!   Based on its highly successful parent texts, Creating Writers and Creating Young Writers, this new grade-level series Creating 6-Trait Revisers and Editors offers teachers a fresh, multi-level lesson series written for the second grade through eighth grade classroom...read more

Product Description: Challenge students to be daring, creative, and confident revisers with the help of writing expert Vicki Spandel!   Based on its highly successful parent texts, Creating Writers and Creating Young Writers, this new grade-level series Creating 6-Trait Revisers and Editors offers teachers a fresh, multi-level lesson series written for the second grade through eighth grade classroom...read more

Product Description: Challenge students to be daring, creative, and confident revisers and editors with the help of writing expert Vicki Spandel!   Based on its highly successful parent texts, Creating Writers and Creating Young Writers, this new grade-level series Creating 6-Trait Revisers and Editors offers teachers a fresh, multi-level lesson series written for the second grade through eighth grade classroom...read more

Product Description: Some teachers love grammar and some hate it, but nearly all struggle to find ways of making the mechanics of English meaningful to kids. As a middle school teacher, Jeff Anderson also discovered that his students were not grasping the basics, and that it was preventing them from reaching their potential as writers...read more

Product Description: Writing instruction stands at a crossroads. Efforts to define and then assess the key qualities of writing have helped pinpoint what outcomes matter most and how to measure them, yet they threaten to become an end in themselves. Meanwhile, high-quality instruction seeks to create a safe environment that applauds risk taking by supporting students through strategies that are not readily measured...read more

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Product Description: - Blackline masters of short-answer and multiple choice tests- Detailed coverage of each lesson in the Reader's Handbook