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Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Based on Northern Nevada's 6-traits of writing, this lesson focuses on teaching students how to revise a rough draft. Links to the 6-traits are included.
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Writing Fix: Revision Sprint [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th - 7th Standards
Based on Northern Nevada's 6-traits of writing, use this hands-on activity to help students revise their rough drafts. [PDF]
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Kim's Korner: Six Trait Analytic Writing Model

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Check out this comprehensive website featuring ideas for teaching writing based on the six trait analytic writing model.
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Writing Fix: The Post It Writing Process

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Based on Northern Nevada's 6-traits of writing, teachers can use a post-it note as a template for students to check their work throughout the writing process. Links to the 6-traits are included.
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Writing Fix: Lesson to Prepare for State Writing Test: Trait Rubics Vocabulary

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson focuses on teaching the vocabulary used in the rubrics for 4 of the 6 Traits of Writing. It requires students to learn the vocabulary used in the rubrics and to define the traits so they understand what is expected of them...
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Writing Fix: 6 Trait Post It Notes for Revision and Editing [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This is a printable PDF template page for 6 Trait Post-it Notes for Revision and Editing for descriptive and narrative writing.
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Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory: 6+1 Traits

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site focuses on the 6+1 TraitTM Writing framework.
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Blendspace: Traits of Writing

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A six-part learning module with links to videos, images, and a rubric about the six traits of writing: ideas, voice, organization, word choice, fluency, and conventions.
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Writing Fix: Voice Building Poetry Lesson: Four Metaphor Poetry

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Inspired by Mem Fox's Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge which includes four metaphors for memory, this writing prompt asks learners to think of an original abstract noun. Students will brainstorm details as they come up with ideas for...
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Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Poetry Lesson: Paradox Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Jack Johnson's "Inaudible Melodies" creates an interesting paradox of how society perceives itself versus the reality of how society really behaves. After listening to a second song using paradox in order to further understand the...
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Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory: 6+1 Traits

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on the 6+1 TraitTM Writing framework.
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Tes: Creative Writing Lesson Plan: Speed Writing

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this guided creative writing lesson plan, students will develop written pieces and writing stamina. Students will write for short timed periods with the goal of writing progressively more...
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Writing Fix: 6 Traits Post It Notes for Revision and Editing [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a printable page of checklists that students can use during revision and editing of descriptive and narrative writing.
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Writing Fix: A 6 Trait Writing Lesson: Emotional Recipe Write Ups

For Teachers 1st - 9th Standards
The writer studies the format of well-written recipes, paying particular attention to the type of verbs used in the paragraph of instructions which always follow the list of needed ingredients. Next, the writer thinks up a story or...
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Writing Fix: Oh, Messy Cheetos!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this instructional activity, sentence fluency is the focus. The mentor text entitled Mrs. Wishy Washy is used to help students explore how using repetition techniques can enhance the meaning of a story. After reading the text,...
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Writing Fix: A Poem for Two Voices for Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The focus trait for this lesson plan is idea development; students will use the pre-determined structure of a "poem for two voices" to explore unique ideas. The text used is The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis...
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Writing Fix: Unique Metaphor Collections

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, the first chapter of the novel Girl with a Pearl Earring is used as a mentor text. Students will identify metaphors and then create their own unique metaphorical descriptions that they will begin to collect in their...
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Writing Fix: A Chapter Book Writing Lesson: Beyond Once Upon a Time

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
Students are so used to hearing stories that start with the words Once upon a time and when writing their own stories, they often begin with these same words or with variations like One day I. Inspired by the novel Crispin by Avi This...
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Writing Fix: Creating a Second Person Choice Story

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan is designed to help students understand plot dimensions and literary devices while writing a multi-faceted short story that has many possible outcomes. For inspiration, students will analyze songs that tell stories for...
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Writing Fix: Ain't That America

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students think that classic literature and historic events have little in common with life today, right? Think again! In this lesson, students get a chance to compare themes from classic novels or from American history to those found in...
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Writing Fix: A Literature Inspired Writing Lesson: I Never Knew That!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and Jem discover that their seemingly "feeble" father has an astonishing ability with a rifle. For this assignment, writers will compose a letter to a parent or loved one, asking for a return letter that...
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Writing Fix: Writing to Your Favorite Author

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, the book Dear Mr. Henshaw, written by Beverly Cleary, is used as a mentor text. Each student will generate a list of questions for his/her favorite author. Then each student will write a letter to the favorite author and...
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Writing Fix: With Your Own Two Hands

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students Use Ben Harper's "With My Own Two Hands" and John Mayer's "Waiting On The World To Change" to ponder their roles in changing the world. After analyzing how a variety of important people changed the world,...
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Writing Fix: The Legend Lives On

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will Use "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", sung by Gordon Lightfoot as a model. They will write poems that tell a detailed story of a historical event. The poem will be brought to life using a combination of...

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