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Using Literature to Teach the Traits

Using Literature to Teach the Traits. Indian River County Schools Sebastian Elementary Katy Bartolini (772)978-8231 katy.bartolini@indianriverschools.org. Introduction. Using the 6 Traits of Writing and incorporating literature to model the traits.

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Using Literature to Teach the Traits

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  1. Using Literature to Teach the Traits Indian River County Schools Sebastian Elementary Katy Bartolini (772)978-8231 katy.bartolini@indianriverschools.org

  2. Introduction • Using the 6 Traits of Writing and incorporating literature to model the traits. • These skills and strategies are used daily to reinforce writing skills. • Using technology to enhance the writing curriculum.

  3. Agenda • Teaching the traits of writing literature • Ideas • Organization • Voice • Word Choice • Sentence Fluency • Conventions • Writer’s Workshop includes 4 main components • Modeled Writing • Independent Writing • Conferencing • Sharing • Teaching technology through writing projects. • Publishing Station • Writing Station

  4. Overview Writers will become Readers and Readers will become Writers Read Draw Model Pair Share Think Edit Write Words

  5. Vocabulary • Ideas – attention to detail, tells the whole story. • Organization – pictures and text go together, the piece has a beginning, middle, and end • Voice – writer’s passion for the topic • Word Choice – builds a picture for the reader • Sentence Fluency – sentences vary in structure and length. • Conventions – Capitalization, punctuation, grammar

  6. Writing Activity Book - Where the Wild Things Are by: Maurice Sendak • discuss traits that compliment the book • use materials on the table to create your own “Wild Thing”. • write a story describing your adventures if you were a “Wild Thing.”

  7. Literature to Teach the Traits • Ideas • If Dogs were Dinosaurs by David M. Schwartz • Out of the Ocean by Debra Frasier • Owen by Kevin Henkes • Organization • I Wanna Iguana by Karen Kaufman Orloff • Scaredy Squirrel by Melanie Watt • How the Grinch Stole Christmas! By Dr.Seuss

  8. Literature to Teach the Traits • Voice • The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant • The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle • When Sophie Gets Angry-Really,Really Angry by Molly Bang • Word Choice • Fancy Nancy by Jane O’Connor • Piggie Pie by Margie Palatini • The Jacket I Wear in the Snow by Nancy Winslow Parker

  9. Literature to Teach the Traits • Sentence Fluency • The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown • Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag • Hey, Al by Yorinks • Conventions • Duck on a Bike by David Shannon • Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle • Alexander & the Terrible Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst

  10. Make and Take Activity 1 • April Shower’s Mobile – Publishing Station • Trace and cut out a white cloud. • Trace and cut out nine blue raindrops. • Trace and cut out three red flowers. • Trace and cut out three green stems. • Glue three white strips to the cloud. • Glue the raindrops to the strips. • Glue a flower and stem to the bottom of each strip. • April Poem – Computer Station • Type the poem you found about the month of April. • Glue it onto your April Mobile.

  11. Make and Take Activity 2 • Butterfly Mobile – Publishing Station • Use the templates to cut out the butterfly shapes from blue, yellow, and pink paper. Also cut 2 each of the large and small circles from each color. • Lay out the 3 butterflies and position the spots so there are contrasting colors on each one as shown. • Punch 2 holes in each butterfly as marked on the templates. • Thread the yarn through the butterflies. • Butterfly Poem – Computer Station • Write your Haiku Poem • Attach your poem to one of your butterflies on your mobile.

  12. Make and Take Activity 3 • Ladybug Activity – Publishing Station • Trace and cut out 3 body parts, 6 legs and 2 antenaes. • Glue the body parts together and attach the writing paper. • Go to Mrs. Bartolini and she will attach the wings. • Write about a time

  13. Short Vowel Sounds Sort – Textbook Station Take out a piece of paper. Fold it like a hot dog. Label each side with e and o. Cut out the pictures. Say the picture out loud and see if you can hear the short e or short o sound. Glue the picture on the correct side of your paper. Color the pictures. Make and Take Activity 4

  14. Summary • Model the skills you wish to teach the children once a week during Writing Workshop. • The other days of the week, teach a mini-lesson using the traits before individual writing time. • The children NEED to write daily in a journal. They need to have a conference with the teacher 2-3 times a week. • Provide the tools necessary to help their writing grow. • Build the children’s writing skills at their own pace. • Writing is successful when you start the children at their own individual level and build on their skills from there.

  15. Where to Get More Information • Resource Books Wee can Write by Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory Using Picture Books to Teach Writing With the Traits by Ruth Culham & Raymond Coutu Seeing with New Eyes by Northwest Regional Educational laboratory picture books by Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory Just Write: All Year Long Kindergarten by Kathryn Robinson Never Too Early To Write by Bea Johnson Teaching the Youngest Writers by Marcia S. Freeman

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