Six-Trait Writing
www.greatsource.com/iwrite/
Everything educators, students, and parents need to make the writing process work in the classroom and at home.
www.nwrel.org/assessment/
Lots of excellent resources for teaching six trait writing; however, this site uses only a 5-point scale.
www.openc.k12.or.us/scoring/
A place you can actually go to score sample 8th grade papers in different modes of writing. Student papers are in the original handwriting for authentic practice. The site compares your scores to anchor scores and helps you improve your scoring technique.
http://www.cyberspaces.net/
6traits/index.html
This link will take you to some standard rubrics to use with the six traits as well as strategy lessons for each.
http://readinglady.com
/Six_Trait_Writing/
Ever wonder the origin of our MOVIES posters? MOVIES is a home grown acronym from ASD, but here is the original source for the posters themselves. |
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General Interest
www.oslis.org/secondary/
(Recommended by Jill Gann, Central School of Science Librarian)
Oregon School Library Information System (OSLIS) is one-stop shopping for research writing resources. Want a link to APA or MLA citation makers? This site has it. Want skill sheets for various steps in the research process? This site has it. Want help teaching student show to evaluate information? You guessed it – this site has it!
www.webenglishteacher.com
One of my all time favorite places for resources in all the areas of language arts. You can subscribe to her newsletter, too, where she posts what is new on her site.
http://www.asdk12.org/depts/
language_arts/links/
Go to LA Online and see some of Mardell Kiesel's recommended Web sites.
http://stepuptowriting.com
Need more materials to support you with Step Up to Writing?
http://writingfix.com/classroom_
tools/dailypromptgenerator.htm
Need fast write ideas? This web site generates topics randomly and links them to the six traits. Michelle Barton brought this one to my attention. |
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Professional Organizations
www.ncte.org
National Council of Teachers of English
www.writingproject.org
National Writing Project
http://www.alaskastate
writingconsortium.org
Alaska State Writing Consortium
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