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• Complimentary Lessons and Resources from the Going Deep with 6-Trait Language Workbook

• Our Newest 6-Trait Resources

• Link to each Trait's own Homepage at WritingFix

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a free lesson focused on
Idea Development
(appropriate for 4th grade and up)

Check out WritingFix for Kids for writing activities and prompts for even younger writers.

Using Karen Hesse's Out of the Dust as a model of great setting descriptions (as well as Patricia MacLachlan's All the Places to Love) this lesson focuses on creating powerful setting descriptions, which is a sub-skill of the Idea Development Trait.  Click here (or on the book cover) to access and print this free PDF lesson.

For meaningful response and revision, use WritingFix's Idea Development Revision Post-Its between students' rough and second drafts.

Using Ruby Bridge's Through My Eyes as a model of well-organized writing, this lesson focuses on pre-thinking purposeful paragraphs, which is a sub-skill of the Organization Trait.  Click here (or on the book cover) to access and print this free PDF lesson.

For meaningful response and revision, use WritingFix's Organization Revision Post-Its between students' rough and second drafts.

Using Katie DiCamillo's Because of Winn Dixie as a model of voice-filled writing, this lesson focuses on writing from the voice of a character who has an interesting perspective, which is a sub-skill of the Voice Trait.  Click here (or on the book cover) to access and print this free PDF lesson.

For meaningful response and revision, use WritingFix's Voice Revision Post-Its between students' rough and second drafts.

Using Chris Van Allsburg's The Z Was Zapped as a model of word choice-filled writing, this lesson focuses on experimenting with alliteration and word play, which are a sub-skills of the Word Choice Trait.  Click here (or on the book cover) to access and print this free PDF lesson.

For meaningful response and revision, use WritingFix's Word Choice Revision Post-Its between students' rough and second drafts.

Using Robin Pulver's Punctuation Takes A Vacation as its "muse," this lesson has students creatively play with punctuation by personifying it, which helps students discover Conventional wisdom in a more interesting way than with punctuation drills and worksheets.  Click here (or on the book cover above) to access and print this free PDF lesson.

For meaningful editing, use WritingFix's Conventions Editing Post-Its after students have written a second draft.

Using both Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address as models of writing with excellent sentence fluency, this lesson focuses on writing with prepositional phrases that flow, which is a sub-skill of the Sentence Fluency Trait.  Click here (or on the book cover above) to access and print this free PDF lesson.

For meaningful response and revision, use WritingFix's Sentence Fluency Revision Post-Its between students' rough and second drafts.

Original 6 Trait Posters from WritingFix:

Click here to open and print our 7-page poster/handout set of this new Northern Nevada metaphor for the 6 traits of writing.

Click here to acess WritingFix's Organization Homepage

Click here to acess WritingFix's
Voice Homepage