• 6 + 1 Traits of Writing The Complete Guide ( Highly recommended)
  (Grades 3 and Up Ruth Culham: Books, This book provides a great orientation to using the traits with clear explanations and multiple examples. See other resources by this author.
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• 6+1 traits of writing: the complete guide, grades 3 and up
  Ruth Culhum Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Conventions, and Presentation. Look at good writing in any genre, and you'll find these traits.With this book, teachers will learn how to assess student work for these traits and plan instruction.
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• Children's Literature Mentor Texts
  This link identifies the mentor texts that Jeff Anderson uses to model effective writing an punctuation for his 6th graders. See also links for high school mentor texts.
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• Everyday Editing: Inviting Students to Develop Skill and Craft in Writer's Workshop
  Written in Jeff Anderson's characteristically witty style, this refreshing and practical guide offers an overview of his approach to editing within the writing workshop as well as ten detailed sets of lessons covering everything from apostrophes to serial commas. These lessons can be used throughout the year to replace Daily Oral Language or error-based editing strategies with a more effective method for improving student writing.
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• Exploring Writing in the Content Areas
  This book by Maria Carty helps teachers of content-area subjects discover ways to help their students become better, more capable writers. It shows them how to take students through all the steps involved in producing written documents—from generating ideas to researching to revising and editing—and provides them a wealth of practical tips for supporting and encouraging student work. Exploring Writing in the Content Areas suggests specific techniques designed to help students:
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• The Write Guy
  Jeff has delivered training in effective writing and reading strategies and instruction for over 18 years, focusing on grades K-8. The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) recently awarded Jeff's writing and selected him as one of the organization's consultants as well.
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• Write Guy:
  Jeff Anderson : Recommended Book Lists These are the books that Jeff Anderson recommends for teaching writing and the mechanics of writing. He teaches junior high and has developed a great DVD. See his home page.
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• Writing Sense: Integrated Reading and Writing Lessons for English Language Learners
  View entire book online. Writing Sense outlines the classroom conditions necessary for successful writing instruction with English language learners, whether in writing workshop and/or small-group instruction. It includes 68 classroom-tested lessons for grades K–8 that show kids at all levels of language acquisition how to make connections, ask questions, visualize (make mental images), infer, determine importance, synthesize, monitor meaning and comprehension, and use fix-up strategies.
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• 6+1 Trait® Products
  Products Catalog Online This is a list of the many products across the grade levels to support the 6+1 Writing Traits
  Featured Product Doubloon Island: The Traits of Writing Board Game Sale Price: $25.00 Now just $5 flat rate shipping - regardless of order size! New...
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• Better Answers: Written Performance That Looks Good and Sounds Smart
  Improve student extended-response answers and develop a life-long skill. Ardith Davis Cole has developed an easy-to-implement, step-by-step protocol, the "Better Answer" formula, that helps students focus on the task at hand. It is a process that begins with teacher modeling, invites increasing amounts of student participation, and eventually moves students into independent response writing.
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• Boy Writers: Reclaiming Their Voices
  View entire book online. Ralph Fletcher draws upon his years of experience as staff developer, children's book author, and father of four boys. He also taps the insights from dozens of writing teachers around the US and abroad. Boy Writers asks teachers to imagine the writing classroom from a boy's perspective, and consider specific steps we might take to create stimulating classrooms for boys.
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• Content-Rich Reading & Writing Workshop
  Nancy Akhavan provides "A Time-Saving Approach for Making the Most of Your Literacy Block. The key is folding content instruction into the literacy block—taking students beyond the learning of reading and writing strategies to applying those strategies to content learning."
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• Craft Lessons Second Edition: Teaching Writing K-8
  Since its publication in 1998 Craft Lessons by Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi has become a mainstay of writing teachers, both new and experienced. Readers value the pithy, practical lessons—each printed on one page—and appreciate the instructional language geared to three grade-level groupings: K–2, 3–4, and 5–8. This new edition provides up-dated examples and many new features.
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• Crafting Writers, K–6:
  "Liz Hale shows us how to make good writing more tangible for our students" (Lucy Calkins). Crafting Writers introduces specific elements of writing craft and gives you a process for noticing them. You'll get advice on teaching craft one-on-one and to the whole class, group conferring, assessment, and more
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• Essay Writing: Teaching the Basics from the Ground Up
  Jock Mackenzie, Essay Writing contains easy-to-incorporate lessons along with tips for teaching specific concepts that range from pre-writing exercises to revising and editing to celebrating the final product. Review entire book online.
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• Everyday Editing: Inviting Students to Develop Skill and Craft in Writer's Workshop
  Jeff Anderson These lessons can be used throughout the year to replace Daily Oral Language or error-based editing strategies with a more effective method for improving student writing. Not written for ELLs but may be a helpful resource for teaching mechanics.
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• Exemplars: Your Best Resource to Improve Student Writing
  Graham Foster and Toni L. Marasco provide more than 50 exemplar-based mini-lessons provide a hands-on, flexible approach to meeting specific student writing needs. These activities involve students in evaluating writing samples and then applying what they have learned to their own work. Organized around the six key traits of good writing—
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• Make Me a Story (Digital Storytelling)
  Stenhouse Publishers Make Me a Story by Lisa Miller demonstrates the power of digital storytelling as a tool for teaching writing and engaging students. It takes teachers step-by-step through all the elements of a project, from research through putting the story together on the computer. Includes a CD with 27 student examples.
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• Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, and Style into Writer's Workshop
  Mechanically Inclined is the culmination of years of experimentation that merges the best of writer's workshop elements with relevant theory about how and why skills should be taught. It connects theory about using grammar in context with practical instructional strategies, explains why kids often don't understand or apply grammar and mechanics correctly, focuses on attending to the “high payoff,” or most common errors in student writing, and shows how to carefully construct a workshop environment that can best support grammar and mechanics concepts. Jeff emphasizes four key elements in his teaching
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• Mentor Texts: Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K–6
  In Mentor Texts, Lynne Dorfman and Rose Cappelli show teachers how to help students become confident, accomplished writers, using literature as their foundation. The book is organized around the characteristics of good writing—focus, content, organization, style, and conventions
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