3694, CODE, BER, Grades 3-6: Using Six-Trait Mini-Lessons to Strengthen Students' Writing

This outstanding course demonstrates a variety of engaging six-trait mini-lessons in intermediate classrooms. The strategies in this program will help you deepen students' understanding of the components of good writing and extend their writing skills.

You'll see multiple ways to strengthen students' writing by focusing on the specific traits of ideas, organization, word choice, voice, sentence fluency and conventions.

You will learn how to:

• teach a variety of five to fifteen minutes mini-lessons on each writing trait
• use mini-lessons to teach the qualities of good writing and help students apply those qualities to their own writing
• use modeling, shared writing, guided writing and independent practice to extend students' writing
• increase students' ability to create an abundance of ideas
• engage students in focusing on six trait characteristics while drafting, revising, and editing their writing
• challenge students to think about their writing in new ways
• expand students' writing through multiple activities focused on specific traits
• demonstrate each writing trait in multiple ways

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