Practical Strategies for Using SIX TRAITS in Your Writing Instruction

(Grades 3-6)

Presented by Jaime Bailey
Internationally Recognized Teacher and Presenter

Specifically Designed for Educators Serving Grades 3-6: Classroom Teachers, Special Education Staff, Title I Staff, Gifted Education Teachers, and Administrators

Dozens of practical ways to incorporate SIX TRAITS writing into publishing student work
Effective ideas for planning, organizing and implementing SIX TRAITS writing lessons to strengthen the writing skills of your grades 3-6 students
Dozens of highly practical, classroom-tested writing strategies, vocabulary, activities, and tips to enhance the development of sentence styling
Dozens of ways to use children’s literature for modeling SIX TRAITS writing and as a springboard for student writing
Demonstrations, student writing samples, displays, hands-on activities, and an extensive resource handbook packed with practical ideas for using the SIX TRAITSframework in grades 3-6

Practical Ideas and Strategies

This outstanding seminar has been designed especially for educators in grades 3-6 to help strengthen students’ writing using the SIX TRAITS writing model. The focus will be on practical ways grades 3-6 teachers can incorporate the SIX TRAITS method into their existing writing program.

Jaime Bailey will spotlight the key traits of ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. She will provide you with ready-to-use writing strategies and activities that will significantly improve the quality of your students’ writing. In addition, she will give you dozens of innovative ways to introduce a wide variety of writing experiences that range from whole class to small group to individual application of the SIX TRAITS.

Join Jaime for an exciting and productive day filled with classroom-proven techniques that you can use immediately with your own grades 3-6 students.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Innovative Ideas for Incorporating SIX TRAITS into Your Grades 3-6 Writing Program
Step-by-step guidelines for initiating and implementing SIX TRAITS writing in grades 3-6 … Maximize your students’ writing efforts with this classroom-tested approach to the teaching of writing
Specific Strategies for Developing and Enhancing Your Grades 3-6 Students’ Writing Skills
Ensure that your grades 3-6 students have mastered the three foundational writing traits they need … Enrich your current writing program with new and research-based methods
Practical Guidelines for Using SIX TRAITS When Teaching Writing to Grades 3-6 Students
Learn concrete methods for using SIX TRAITS in your writing instruction … Easy-to-use steps for planning, organizing and implementing SIX TRAITS writing lessons
Effective and Engaging Writing Lessons that Promote the SIX TRAITS in Your Grades 3-6 Classrooms
You’ll leave with a wealth of sample lessons and motivating activities that will facilitate the successful inclusion of SIX TRAITS in your daily writing instruction
Word Choice Strategies that will Enliven Your Grades 3-6 Students’ Writing
Exciting ideas, lessons and activities that encourage writers in grades 3-6 to “paint pictures” with words … Learn how modeling, guided practice and coaching can invigorate your students’ writing with sensory details
Classroom-Based Ideas for Increasing Your Students’ Ability to Edit for Conventions
Highly practical tips for making sure your students edit for the conventions in their daily written work … Teach your students to pay attention to capital letters, end marks, commas, spelling errors, and quotation marks
Ready-to-Use Activities for Linking Writing to the Best of Children’s Literature
Use quality literature as a model for developing the writing skills of your grades 3-6 students … Show how favorite authors incorporate the SIX TRAITS into their writing
Research-Based Strategies for Helping Your Students Organize their Ideas
Tested techniques for helping your students organize their ideas into coherent results … Powerful ideas for facilitating paragraph writing for students of all writing abilities
Realistic Routines and Procedures for Efficiently Managing Your Writing Program
Classroom-proven tips and techniques for creating and maintaining a smoothly-running writing program that incorporates SIX TRAITS … Learn practical methods that you can use immediately
Increase Your Teaching Options
Dozens of research-based ideas for including SIX TRAITS in your daily writing instruction (Each participant will receive an extensive resource handbook packed with activities, strategies, examples, and tips for successful implementation of SIX TRAITS in your grades 3-6 classrooms)

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Practical ideas for introducing, organizing and managing Six Trait writing in your grades 3-6 classrooms
Creative lessons and activities that use SIX TRAITS to help grades 3-6 students develop the key skills for writing success
How to help your students generate ideas and details using Six Traits
Motivating writing activities for engaging your struggling writers
How to use quality children’s literature to illustrate the use of SIX TRAITS
The best ways to confer and provide specific feedback to strengthen your students’ writing
Specific steps for establishing classroom-proven routines and procedures for a smoothly running writing program
How to use “scaffold” writing activities to model, guide and support reluctant or struggling writers
Engaging and ready-to-implement activities that will increase the writing vocabularies of your students
Practical strategies for increasing your students’ word choice, written vocabulary and grammar
Innovative ideas for using literature as a springboard to encourage quality writing
Ways to engage your student writers in experimentation of voice
Proven strategies to help students “paint pictures” with words
Classroom-tested ways to instruct students in individual, small group and whole class settings
How to use procedural mini-lessons to scaffold young writers to writing independence
Concrete guidelines for using SIX TRAITS effectively and efficiently in your grades 3-6 writing program

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

We all know that writing, and the teaching of writing is hard work. In my 24 years of helping my students become better writers, there have been many exciting and effective developments in the teaching of writing. I have found SIX TRAITS writing strategies to be one of the best new developments. SIX TRAITS provides teachers with specific, effective tools to model, guide, coach, and scaffold students to writing independence.

During our idea-packed day together, we will focus on practical ways to immerse grades 3-6 students in writing. We will be examining highly effective ways for developing a comprehensive Six Traits writing program.

Some of the areas we will cover include:

More than a year’s worth of writing ideas from which to pick and choose
Easy-to-implement Six Trait writing lessons, activities and ideas that you can use immediately with your grades 3-6 writers
Powerful ways to use children’s literature to enhance your students’ writing
Unique and fun lessons to strengthen voice and word choice

Please join me for a fast-paced, no-time-wasted day filled with engaging writing activities that build on the SIX TRAITS. I will do my best to ensure that these activities are ones that you can use immediately in your classroom. I look forward to meeting you at the seminar and sharing with you classroom-tested strategies for incorporating SIX TRAITS into your grades 3-6 writing program.

Sincerely,
Jaime Bailey

P.S. You will leave this seminar with practical ideas that have been designed just for grades 3-6 classrooms.

Who Should Attend

Educators serving Grades 3-6: Classroom Teachers, Special Education Staff, Title I Staff, Gifted Education Teachers, and Administrators.

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive resource handbook, Practical Strategies for Using SIX TRAITS in Your Writing Instruction (Grades 3-6), specifically designed for this seminar. Included in the handbook are:

Specific lessons to help young writers develop and strengthen IDEAS
Concrete ways to ORGANIZE thoughts
Numerous strategies for extending young students’ WORD CHOICE
Creative lessons to introduce the concept of VOICE
Developmentally appropriate techniques to support young writers as they edit for CONVENTIONS

Meet and Share
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to meet and share ideas on writing strategies.

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