The perfect complement to its phenomenally successful parent book, Creating Writers, 3e, this new text provides clear guidelines on helping young students draft, assess, and revise their writing, as well as explicit criteria to show students precisely what they must do to succeed as writers in virtually any situation-including state tests. In practical and teacher-friendly terms, acclaimed author Vicki Spandel explains 6-trait writing from the inside out, in terms teachers and their students can understand, and offers hands-on links to writing process and to reading, showing that for beginning students, hearing the traits in literature can be as important as expressing them through personally generated text. Better than ever, the book is designed to give practicing and new teachers a more in-depth understanding of the writing process and how it connects to the six traits of writing. A gold mine of activities and lesson ideas make this book ideal for use in the K-3 classroom or as part of a study group. In sum, as reviewers have pointed out, this book "will be a powerful resource for primary teachers."
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Creating Young Writers by Vicki Spandel
This long-awaited text offers a most comprehensive exploration of Spandel's effective 6-trait approach to writing for K-3 teachers. The perfect complement to its phenomenally successful parent text, Creating Writers, Third Edition, this new text provides clear guidelines on helping young students draft, assess, and revise their writing, as well as explicit criteria to show students precisely what they must do to succeed as writers in virtually any situation-including state tests.
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- Loaded with lesson ideas suitable for students K-3 will help teachers understand exactly how to teach writing to very beginning writers. (Chs. 3 & 4.)
- Samples of actual student work, both text and art, offers teachers a clear understanding of how to recognize strengths and growth in student work (Chs. 2 & 5).
- Specific examples of how to model writing for students encourage teachers to try modeling and to write with students as a teaching technique (Ch. 6).
- Samples of simple student portfolios take the mystery out of creating student portfolios by showing that portfolios need not be complex or long to work (Ch. 5).
- Explanation of how revision looks/works at beginning levels gives teachers (and students) in-depth understanding of what revision is and how to teach it (Ch. 5).
- Step-by-step review of the publishing process offers teachers and students options for "publishing" text at the classroom level (Ch. 5).
- Recommended books for teaching key traits of writing at primary level reinforce the link between reading and writing and gives even non-writers a way into the traits (Ch. 7).
- Analysis of classroom versus large-scale assessment from a primary education perspective strengthens teachers' understanding of what good assessment should look like at various levels (Ch. 8).
- Inside look at four classrooms that use process and trait-based writing in various ways helps current or prospective teachers see how many individual forms trait-based writing can take (Ch. 9).
“I really enjoyed reading this book...I think this is an essential read for primary writing teachers!”
Wendy Ellis, Literacy Specialist, Arkansas State Dept. of Education
'Creating Young Writers will be a powerful resource for the primary teachers in my class...I find so many great ideas that I can also recommend this text to my 4-8 teachers. So much applies directly to the needs of students in middle grades.'
Dennis O'Connor, Certified Online Instructor, Milken National Educator
Author Bio
Vicki Spandel is a former language arts teacher, journalist, technical writer, and co-director of the teacher team that developed the original 6-trait model. She has written or co-authored more than 25 books for teachers and students, including-most recently-Creating Writers, 3rd edition (Allyn and Bacon), the Daybooks of Critical Reading and Writing for Grades 2-5 (Great Source Education Group) and The Write Traits Classroom Kits, Grades 3-8 (also published by Great Source). In the course of developing educational materials, Vicki serves as a visiting teacher in classrooms K-12. She has been the scoring director for more than 80 state, county and district writing assessments. She is currently the lead trainer for Write Traits, teacher in-service specialists who offer training and consultation in process-based 6-trait instruction and assessment throughout the country.
About the Author
Vicki Spandel is a master teacher and was the co-director of the original teacher team that developed the 6 Trait model. She has designed instructional materials for all grade levels and is the author of numerous books on writing and writing assessment including Creating Writers - Linking Writing Assessment and Instruction. Vicki is a former language arts teacher, journalist, technical writer, consultant and scoring director for dozens of state, county, and district writing assessments. She also serves as contributing editor to r.w.t, the magazine for reading, writing, thinking.
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A writing teacher's delight,
By Penny Clare (Lee, NH United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Creating Young Writers: Using the Six Traits to Enrich Writing Process in Primary Classrooms (Paperback)
As a primary grade teacher, this new book by Vicki Spandel (Write Traits) really appealed to me. Expectations for writing process in my elementary school have changed in the last few years. Our primary students are expected to write with more conventions and with ever-increasing assessments. This book is full of strategies and ideas to help the primary teacher meet their student's drive to write and draw their stories as well as satisfy the administration's need for more "accountability" with skills. I loved the examples from classrooms using new and familiar techniques and the frank discussions of what to expect from student writers. It is the kind of book one can pick up for an idea to use tomorrow as well as read cover to cover to learn more about writing in the primary classroom. It is easy to read, well researched and realistic for classroom use. I highly recommend this book.
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Creating Young Writers: Essential to ALL Primary Teachers,
By Kathy T Glass (Woodside, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Creating Young Writers: Using the Six Traits to Enrich Writing Process in Primary Classrooms (Paperback)
As a consultant in over 15 schools, this book is a permanent fixture in my briefcase. I take it with me when visiting all primary teachers for good reason: it is integral to improving writing for young students. I've read mostly all of Vicki Spandel's work, and this one is yet another gem. It provides a cornucopia of essential information about the six traits of writing - student samples with valuable commentaries, concrete lessons to use immediately, teaching suggestions, assessments, and more. What is also noteworthy is that this book is versatile. It can be used for those not yet familiar with the six traits, those still experimenting with it, and those well-versed who want more tools. Bravo, Vicki, on another vital resource for teachers so they can elicit the best from their students.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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goodnatured, savvy, and helpful,
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This review is from: Creating Young Writers: Using the Six Traits to Enrich Writing Process in Primary Classrooms (Paperback)
This is an excellent book. As a 20+ year veteran teacher, with numerous workshops under my belt, I found this fun to read, welcoming,and full of very practical ideas. Really wonderful: I have already lent it to my grade level pal (2nd grade) and she is loving it.The previous review was obviously meant for some movie somewhere else!
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