If you’ve heard Kristina’s 6-Traits Introduction, then you’re ready to take it to the next level. This workshop addresses how to take the 6-Traits from six words floating around the classroom to full-blown immersion and implementation all year long. Kristina will offer you ways to organize, manage, and implement the traits to heighten the effectiveness of your trait teaching.
Training topics
Learn how to put the 6-Traits at the center of all three phases of your writer’s workshop— within the mini-lesson, the independent writing time, and the group share.
Discover multiple approaches for assessing student writing, including when to score for particular traits and when to assess all of them.
Learn the 4 steps to dissecting a mentor text for the 6-Traits and grade–level writing skills.
Learn to thread the 6-Traits through all themes, units, and writing genres all year long.
When you leave, you will be able to:
Utilize the 6-Traits to drive your writer’s workshop mini-lessons.
Improve the effectiveness of writer conferences and student revision.
Dissect any type of literature for the 6-Traits and its key writing skills.
Plan writing units that embed the traits within various writing genres.
Introduce and utilize kid-friendly rubrics to assess student writing.
Convert a set of rubric scores to grades.
Call Smekens Education toll free to learn more.
888-376-0448
Participants in this workshop are eligible to earn one hour of graduate credit from Purdue University-Calumet.
