Intro to 6 traits

1. Learning to Write
Good
How to know what you rock at and what you don’t so much
rock at
Well

2. WRITING IS HARD TO
MEASURE

3. Writing should
adapt to your
audience

4. How to evaluate
your own
writing

5. 6 Traits + 1
Ideas
Voice Sentence Fluency
Word Choice
Organization Conventions

6. Ideas
How do you use
specific details and
elaborate on your
general comments?
I am hopeless with
directions. Yesterday, I got
lost on the way to the
refrigerator and had to
text my little sister to
rescue me.

7. Voice
How does your
writing create the
impression of a
unique human
being?
What kind of person
chows down on 3 donuts,
4-day old bacon and the
last dregs of grapefruit
juice and calls it dinner?

8. Organization
How does your
writing create the
impression of a
unique human
being?
What kind of person
chows down on 3 donuts,
4-day old bacon and the
last dregs of grapefruit
juice and calls it dinner?

9. Word Choice
How do you choose
the correct word or
the surprising
word to convey
meaning?
Sometimes, I get so
angry at my cats I want
to defenestrate them.

10. Word Choice
How do you choose
the correct word or
the surprising
word to convey
meaning?
Sometimes, I get so
angry at my cats I want
to defenestrate them.

11. Sentence
Fluency
How do you
organize, vary, and
construct your
sentences?
Even though I am over
40-years old, I still,
embarassingly, find
myself thinking that my
dad is going to fix things
when they break.

12. Conventions
How do you use
correct grammar
and writing
mechanics to make
your writing clear?
I know how to spell
the word achieve but
surprise, for some
reason, still eludes
me.

13. Using your writing as a model, take
the 6 traits and give yourseld a grade
from 1-10.
For each trait, write a short sentence
that explains your strength and what
you need to work on