6 Trait Writing Correlations

Correlations to Your Lesson Plans and Writing Programs for Essays

6 + 1 Trait Essay Writing Skills Correlation

6 + 1 Trait Writing – Paper Lightning has strong correlations to the writing skills required in six traits writing. For the Ideas and Content Trait, every lesson plan in Paper Lightning can be used. The Voice Trait and Word Choices Trait are supported by over half the lesson plans. Some of the Organization Trait and Sentence Fluency Trait are supported by prewriting activities in this book.

Scaffolded Writing – With minor modifications, most of the essay writing lesson plans are appropriate for use anywhere along the continuum of shared writing to independent writing. The lesson plans and activities give student writers the needed writing skills to give them confidence as they move toward independence in their own essay writing.

NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) Beliefs about Teaching of Writing. The lesson plans and writing skills in Paper Lightning support the NCTE’s statement about teaching writing in general and essay writing in particular.

Writer’s Workshop – With minor modifications, most of these writing skills and lesson plans are appropriate for mini-lessons with a Writing Workshop methodology. They are especially appropriate at the beginning of writing an essay or paper, when the student is focused on the prewriting skills.

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