1. What’s UP in Writing? Six Traits of Writing

2. Objectives Students will be able to model the trait of ideas by writing about an idea they know a great deal about.

3. Six Traits In writing, we focus on six traits. Today, we are learning about the first of six: Ideas

4. Ideas Topic(s) you know about Like a light bulb: – The more details you have, the brighter the light

5. Let’s Read What Do I Do With an Idea?

6. Ideas Oh I think that I found myself an idea Add the details right there where I need them My light grows when I develop my idea Choose a topic I know from my brain stem sing to the tune of “Cheerleader”

7. Idea Rubric

8. Write On! Choose a topic from your ABC Chart that you are an expert about. Write for 10 minutes about that topic. You will be graded with the idea rubric in your notes.

9. What’s UP in Writing? Six Traits of Writing

10. Let’s Read The Very Hungry Caterpillar

11. Objectives Students will be able to model the trait of organization by writing about an a life event in with a beginning, middle, and end.

12. Six Traits In writing, we focus on six traits. We have learned about ideas! Now it’s time to learn how to organize our ideas!

13. Organization The order your writing goes in Beginning, Middle, End Similarities, Differences Like a train: can’t have the caboose before the engine!

14. Organization sing to the tune of “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?” Do you want to write a paper? Open with a strong start, write the middle part, Then there’s the end It needs to flow smoothly With transition words To make everything groove. I can organize my paper. And explain my thoughts in order. Or-gan-ized.

15. Organization Rubric

16. Write On! Choose an event from your life map. Write about it with a clear beginning, middle, and end. This will be collected for a grade (5 points for organization).

17. What’s UP in Writing? Six Traits of Writing

18. Objectives Students will be able to model the trait of voice by writing about an a life event with multiple attitudes, emotions, or “voices.”

19. Six Traits In writing, we focus on six traits. We have learned about ideas and organization! Now it’s time to learn how write about our ideas using different voices!

20. Organization Your attitude or feelings about the topic Use emotional words – Happy – Sad – Embarrassed – Ecstatic Can change the mood of the writing

21. Voice sing to the tune of “Honey, I’m Good” Writing: I’ve got a voice And you know that it’s my choice yeah I can be happy or sad Attitudes change the mood yeah Writing: I’ve got a voice And you know that it’s my choice yeah It shows you how I feel And you know that I am for real

22. Organization Rubric

23. Write On! Choose an event from your life map that makes you feel a strong emotion. Write the emotion in the blank. Summarize that event in one paragraph. Then, rewrite that SAME paragraph about the SAME event using a different voice (aka emotion). Your paragraphs will be graded on a 5 point scale for strong and clear voice in your writing.

24. What’s UP in Writing? Six Traits of Writing

25. Objectives Students will be able to model the trait of word choice by choosing strong vocabulary to describe emotions.

26. Six Traits In writing, we focus on six traits. We have learned about ideas, organization, and voice! Now it’s time to learn how write about our word choice affects our writing!

27. Ideas Oh I think that I found myself an idea Add the details right there where I need them My light grows when I develop my idea Choose a topic I know from my brain stem sing to the tune of “Cheerleader”

28. Organization sing to the tune of “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?” Do you want to write a paper? Let me tell you how it goes. Open with a strong start, write the middle part, Then there’s the end It needs to flow smoothly With transition words To make everything groove. I can organize my paper. And explain my thoughts in order. Or-gan-ized.

29. Voice sing to the tune of “Honey, I’m Good” Writing: I’ve got a voice And you know that it’s my choice I can be happy or sad Attitudes change the mood. Yeah! Writing: I’ve got a voice And you know that it’s my choice It shows you how I feel My emotions are for real

30. Word Choice Strong vocabulary Strong synonyms include vocabulary to make explanations detailed and precise Rich descriptions actions clear and vivid “Show me!” words Hit the “bulls-eye” with a strong word!

31. Word Choice sing to the tune of “Bad Blood” Writer’s now I’ve got word choice It can help with my writing voice Strong words, not boring Don’t want readers snoring! Now I’ve got word choice It can help with my writing voice Choose strong terminology Choosing words that “Show me!”

32. Word Choice Rubric

33. Write On! Use strong vocabulary to describe the emotion. What would that emotion LOOK LIKE? Choose one emotion and write a short story (fiction or nonfiction) using the strong vocabulary you wrote.

35. What’s UP in Writing? Six Traits of Writing

36. Objectives Students will be able to model the trait of sentence fluency by varying their sentence length in a paragraph.

37. Six Traits In writing, we focus on six traits. We have learned about ideas, organization, voice, and word choice! Now it’s time to learn how write about our sentence fluency affects our writing!

38. Ideas Oh I think that I found myself an idea Add the details right there where I need them My light grows when I develop my idea Choose a topic I know from my brain stem sing to the tune of “Cheerleader”

39. Organization sing to the tune of “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?” Do you want to write a paper? Let me tell you how it goes. Open with a strong start, write the middle part, Then there’s the end It needs to flow smoothly With transition words To make everything groove. I can organize my paper. And explain my thoughts in order. Or-gan-ized.

40. Voice sing to the tune of “Honey, I’m Good” Writing: I’ve got a voice And you know that it’s my choice I can be happy or sad Attitudes change the mood. Yeah! Writing: I’ve got a voice And you know that it’s my choice It shows you how I feel My emotions are for real

41. Word Choice sing to the tune of “Bad Blood” Writer’s now I’ve got word choice It can help with my writing voice Strong words, not boring Don’t want readers snoring! Now I’ve got word choice It can help with my writing voice Choose strong terminology Choosing words that “Show me!”

42. Sentence Fluency How we hear our writing Variety of sentence types and lengths Figurative language Ease and readability “sounds good”

43. Sentence Fluency (to the tune of “Shut Up and Dance with Me”) Take a good look at My sentence fluency They’re both long and short Got that sentence variety Great language, readability Smoooth smooooth! Sentence fluency

44. Sentence Fluency Rubric

45. Write On! You and a partner are going to write about a the city in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Chewandswallow. The number of words in your sentences depends upon the number you roll with your dice. You must have at least 5 sentences total. 5 I love to read books. 7 My friends and I read them together. 2 It’s great! 12 We like to read many different genres such as fantasy and mystery.