- ISBN13: 9780439222471
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More than 25 effective and engaging mini-lessons to help students strengthen their writing by learning about the traits: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and presentation. Mini-lessons focus on different stages of the writing process, from prewriting to editing. Includes student writing samples and suggested children’s books to model each trait…. More >>
Trait-Based Mini-Lessons for Teaching Writing in Grades 2-4
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#1 by Ada on February 7, 2010 - 6:47 am
I read long narratives about trait based writing and ideas for public school classrooms, but I think this book would have been more useful with reproducible lessons already created and some examples of students’ writing, to show what one could achieve. Some of the author’s ideas were good but it would have been much better and more useful if she had laid out her lessons with the forms for each lessons together with the lesson. For my money I like Barbara Mariconda’s “Super Story-Writing Strategies & Activities” and by the same author “The Most Wonderful Writing Lessons Ever.” also 25 Mini-Lessons for Teaching Writing by Adele Fiderer. These three little books I have found myself coming back to day after day to help zero in on the needs of the student.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by K. Sumersille on February 7, 2010 - 8:35 am
This is a great book for teaching the writing traits. And, it’s easily adaptable to grades 5 and 6 also. I highly recommend it.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Nkulu on February 7, 2010 - 9:59 am
As a 3rd grader teacher who has a classroom of English-speaking and ELL students, I need practical, easy to use 6-trait writing ideas that can reach both sets of writers. Megan Sloan’s book does just that! Her welcoming tone invites you into her classroom as she narrates how she “thinks aloud” with her students about ways to improve and clarify their writing. In each chapter, one of the 6 traits is described followed by 4-5 lessons on that trait. Sloan has also gathered a list of fiction and non-fiction books to assist in exploring each trait, many of which can be easily accessed in a school or public library.
Some writing process books give long, detailed explanations of the traits and ways to use them, but I found these mini-lessons to be quick reads that you can try with your students the next day. I read this book with my ELLs in mind, looking for ways to make the traits comprehensible to them. In each lesson, Sloan models how she scaffolds the writing process, ultimately letting students take charge of their writing. Students can use the traits in simple, but powerful ways to become stronger writers. If you’re a busy teacher (and who isn’t!), then this easy-to-use book is a smart investment!
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Bonnie Hill on February 7, 2010 - 12:38 pm
If you’re looking for really practical ideas for minilessons that can help students improve their writing Trait Based Mini-Lessons is just the book for you. Individual chapters address each of the six traits that she teaches during writing workshop. As a master classroom teacher, Megan describes her minilessons with enough detail, along with samples of student work and suggestions for children’s books, that you will be eager to try these writerly tips with your students. Megan explains, “When the traits are well defined for students, they will have a clear sense of what they are aiming for in their writing. And, once students have finished a piece, they can use the traits to analyze its strengths and weaknesses” (2005, p. 92).
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by J. Self on February 7, 2010 - 1:20 pm
This book has step by step lesson ideas that will work well in my 3rd grade classroom. It also lists other books for the traits which enabled me to go through my personal library to see with what books I could build my own lessons.
Rating: 4 / 5