E-Learning & Online Teaching

• 6 Trait Books
  Booklists by trait. Lots of ideas!
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• Search Results
  Milwaulkee Public Schools Database of resources. Try querying this with each of the traits and you’ll find a wealth of activities and ideas.
  (tags: 6-traits writing)

Please forward this announcement to teachers in your district.

This summer teachers from around the nation and the world will join online to exchange ideas and share best practices. The conversations are rich. The community is real. If you’ve never taken an online class before… this is the one to start with!

Teaching and Assessing Writing with the 6 Traits

EDUC 744 920 Elementary (Gr. K-4) – 3 gr. cr. begins June 16, 2008 EDUC 744 909 Middle/High School (Gr. 5-12) – 3 gr. cr. begins June 16, 2008

Learn to teach and assess writing with the 6-Traits of writing (voice, ideas, word choice, organization, sentence fluency and conventions). Learn to use the 6-Traits with the writing process to teach revision strategies. Help learners meet higher standards and improve test
scores.

Earn graduate credits via online courses that support your professional development goals for licensure renewal, salary advancement and advanced certification.

Sign up soon to reserve your spot! Classes are TOTALLY ONLINE. You may participate from your home or school computer. Registration is limited to 20 participants per section.

Syllabus and other details: http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/traits.shtml REGISTER ONLINE or REGISTER BY FAX Fax: (715) 232-3385

For more details e-mail Dennis O’Connor: oconnord@uwstout.edu

Subscribe to the NWP’s E-Voice Newletter to stay in touch with the great work being done by writing teachers across the country.

New Resources from NWP: 

• Creating Work of Their Own: Skills and Voice in an Eighth Grade Research Project – National Writing ProjectSummary: Roth argues that if students are to execute successful research projects, they need to put their own stamp on their work and also need explicit instruction in the skills necessary to carry out this task.(tags: 6-traits writing writing-process)
• The Research Paper: Engaging Students in Academic Writing – National Writing ProjectSummary: A teacher of high school freshmen engages her students in writing their research paper—and eliminates plagiarism—by having them write a historical account in first person.(tags: 6-traits writing writing-process)
• Eduholic: Blogging Teacher-Consultant Gets National Attention – National Writing ProjectSummary: Emmet Rosenfeld, a teacher-consultant for the Northern Virginia Writing Project, writes a blog for Teacher Magazine that reaches a responsive audience of teachers around the country.(tags: web2.0 blog writing 6-traits writing-process)
• Eleven New Sites Added to NWP Network – National Writing ProjectSummary: Eleven new sites have joined NWP’s network—helping the NWP move toward a goal of putting a writing project within reach of every teacher.(tags: writing 6-traits writing-process)

• traits Writing – Page 1 – Blinkx Video Results

  video explaing 6traits writing

  (tags: 6-traits video)

• writing process – Page 1 – Blinkx Video Results

  writing process video

  (tags: writing writing-process video)

Teaching and Assessing Writing with the 6 Traits: Classes are are Filling Fast!

EDUC 744 920F Teaching and Assessing Writing with the 6-TraitsElementary (Gr. K-4) – 3 gr. cr. begins January 28, 2008.

EDUC 744 909F Teaching and Assessing Writing with the 6-Traits – Middle/High School (Gr. 5-12) 3 gr. cr. begins January 28, 2008.

Learn to teach and assess writing with the 6-Traits of writing (voice, ideas, word choice, organization, sentence fluency and conventions). Learn to use the 6-Traits with the writing process to teach revision strategies. Help learners meet higher standards and improve test scores.

Please forward this announcement to teachers in your district.

Earn graduate credits via online courses that support your professional development goals for licensure renewal, salary advancement and advanced certification.

Sign up soon to reserve your spot! Registration closes this week!

to allow time for assigning user names, passwords and ordering/shipping the textbook.

Classes are TOTALLY ONLINE. You may participate from your home or school computer. Registration is limited to 20 participants per section.

Syllabus and other details:

http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/traits.shtml

REGISTER ONLINE
or
REGISTER BY FAX
Fax: (715) 232-3385

• Scholastic.com | Teachers: Write It | Essay

  Guide to revision

  (tags: writing 6-traits)

• Scholastic.com | Teachers: Write It | Essay

  Giving meaningful feedback on writing

  (tags: writing 6-traits)

• Writing Workshop

  revising the research paper

  (tags: writing 6-traits)

• Homework Center: Writing Skills: Revising your first draft

  Revising your first draft

  (tags: writing 6-traits)

• Writing In Flow – Excerpt

  Solid writing assignment ideas

  (tags: writing 6-traits)

• Line Editing in 10 Easy Steps (DeepGenre)

  revision advice at the professional level

  (tags: writing 6-traits)

• The Great Thompson Hunt – HST & Friends

  Hunter Thompson resources

  (tags: writing writing-process)

• Writing Samples/Scores

  practice papers

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• Writing Process

  (tags: writing)

• Writing_January2005.pdf

  samples

  (tags: writing-process 6traits)

• 6+1 Trait Writing Products – thetraits.org

  Online product store for 6-traits teaching materials. Official NWREL site. Good products!

  (tags: 6-traits writing writing-process)

• Māori Dictionary | Te Aka Māori-English English-Māori DictionaryCool online dictionary provided by Stephen from NewZealand.

  (tags: translation NewZealand)

• Stenhouse Publishers – Essay Writing: Teaching the Basics from the Ground Up

  Free online book (open for a look)

  (tags: writing 6traits)

• Online Video Industry Index

  (tags: video web2.0 reference Search)

• Tech Teaches Reading

  Good overview of online reading. Discusses Donald Leu’s work. Looks at IM lilteracies… interesting insights.

  (tags: reading literacy)

• Electronic School: Education as Commodity

  Overview of intellectual property and copyright issues regarding course creation.

  (tags: copyright intellectual property)

• George Orwell: 12 Writing Tips

  Tips from Eric Blair (AKA George Orwell). Solid advice from a master writer, presented by online writing workshop site.

  (tags: writing 6-traits writing-process)

• Conversing with an Object

  excellent lesson plan to strengthen ideas and dialog conventions

  (tags: writing writing-process lesson_plans)

• Welcome to Step Up 4 Learning Systems, Inc.

  6 Trait Power Write™ is a web-based, interactive system for teaching the writing process to students in grades 4-12. The name “Power Write” is an acronym for the 10 steps in the writing process that the system teaches.

  (tags: 6-traits writing writing-process webtools training teacher)