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LESSON ESSENTIALS

SESSION 1 | Grades K-12 / ELL All Levels

Target the 6 Traits within your daily writing instruction

Connect each trait with a visual icon

Black and white
mini-posters

B/W with color
mini-posters

Monochromatic
mini-posters

Mini-Icons in
Word document

Introduce Trait Characters mini-poster templates

Trait Character
Mini-Poster templates

Get started with the 6 Traits

Learn more about the traits of writing.

Use a Cheat Sheet to Recognize the 6 Traits

Master the 6 Traits
(with a cheat sheet)!

How do the 6 Traits fit
within the state writing rubrics?

See the 6 Traits Within the ELA Standards

See the 6 Traits
within the ELA Standards.

See the Traits within the Writing Process

See the 6 Traits
within the writing process.

Begin to implement the trait language in your classroom.

Introducing the 6 Traits

PRIZE: Traits of Writing Poster
Google Slide

Plan introductions with
a Writing-Time task.

Establish a yearlong 6-Traits Bulletin Board

Track writing skills with a yearlong 6-Traits bulletin board.

Spiral through the traits all year long

What do you teach after
introducing the Six Traits of Writing?

Launching the Writer's Workshop: Grades K-2

Find trait-based
mini-lessons in the
K-2 Launch book.

Find trait-based
mini-lessons in the
3-12 Launch book.

The Ultimate Guide to
the Six Traits of Writing