Whether you're just getting started with the traits or want to invigorate your trait-based writing instruction, the 20 fun and engaging lessons in this resource are just what you need.
Magic. Sneed B. Collard III and Vicki Spandel blow the roof off everything you thought you knew about teaching nonfiction writing and the purposes for revision.
This book gives you and your students a shared language with which to talk about writing. No writing teacher in America has done more than Vicki Spandel to show how to actually make writing workshops work.
Develop your grade 4 students' writing skills in each of the six traits--Ideas, Organization, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Voice, and Conventions--using 125 engaging, 10- to 15-minute writing lessons. - 125 trait-based lessons - 25 weeks ...