Reviewing the Six Traits Throughout the Year

Ideas

Voice

Sentence Fluency

Organization

Word Choice

Conventions

Knowledgeablewriting topics

Writing for a purpose Develop

plot/action

Supporting ideas with reasons and examples

Narrow topic

Details, development, and elaboration

Develop charactersDevelop setting

Focused: ideas stay on topic

Picture matches word

Writing to an audience

Writer’s attitudes or feelings about the topic

Reader-writer connection

Point of view Characters with voice

Shifting attitudes/voice within a piece

Voice with type (NO!!!YUCK!)

Complete thoughts; complete sentences

Varied sentence beginnings

Varied sentence types (simple, compound, complex)

Readability: sounds good; easy to read aloud

Figurative language

Varying sentence lengths for impact

Varied sentence lengths

Prewriting; planning3 parts of BME

TitleHook: first-linerEnding: last-liner

TransitionsFlashback/ForeshadowOrganized by timeClumping like ideas togetherSequence: order of ideas

Specific nouns (right word, right spot)Adjectives (colors, numbers, descriptions, 5 senses

Descriptions: imagery (show, don’t tell) Adverbs Synonyms (varied word choice); shades of meaning

Letter formation: left to right, top to bottom

Beginning /proper noun capitals

Word wrapping Word spacing

Paragraph indentsGrammar and mechanics

PunctuationReadable spelling

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