Strategies for teaching the 6 Traits of Writing
Ideas | Organization | Voice | Word Choice | Sentence Fluency | Conventions
Trait of Ideas
Motivate with colorful sentences.
Encourage students to add more development—not just more topics.
Compare a paragraph to a table top and its supporting legs.
This same concept can be taught at any grade level—just use different anchor papers.
Steps 1 & 2: Know the topic & capture details
Choose topics students know well and write everything down.
