Creating Writers Through 6-Trait Writing Assessment and Instruction, Third Edition - Softcover

Spandel, Vicki

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801332524 ISBN 13: 9780801332524

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 2000

Synopsis

Creating Writers, 3/e is a most comprehensive exploration of Spandel's effective 6-trait approach to writing. It provides clear guidelines on helping 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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Creating Writers, Fourth Edition, is now available! Search for it using ISBN: 0-205-41032-4

The Fourth Edition is the most comprehensive exploration of the 6-trait approach to writing yet!

Written by the pioneer of 6-trait writing, this Fourth Edition brings everything up to date, offering a comprehensive overview of the best education strategies and philosophies from the worlds of writing assessment and instruction. It provides clear guidelines on helping 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. Widely used at the state level, school districts are incorporating the 6 traits into their state standards or assessments. This is the only book on the market that effectively helps teachers of writing prepare their students for success on state tests.

• New format and organization is designed to make the content clear and simple.
• New and revised checklists for genre-specific writing instruction to separate key elements in narrative writing, literary analysis, and persuasive writing.
• New and creative ways to use 6-trait writing in classrooms are explored - including adaptations for kinesthetic learners and second language learners.

About the Author

Vicki Spandel has worked as a language arts teacher, editor, journalist, technical writer, and award winning video producer. In 1984, Vicki coordinated the 17-member teacher team out of Beaverton, Oregon who developed the original, internationally recognized 6-trait model for writing assessment and instruction. Since that time, she has served as scoring director for more than 75 state, county, and district writing assessments, and has developed instructional writing materials for students K through college. She is a frequent visitor in writing classrooms, providing coaching on writing, revision, and editing. Vicki is the author or co-author (with Jeff Hicks) of more than 30 books for teachers and students, including Creating Young Writers, second edition (Allyn and Bacon), The 9 Rights of Every Writer (2005, Heinemann), The Write Traits Classroom Kits, Grades 1 through 8, Write Traits Advanced, Grades 9 through 12, and most recently, Write Traits Kindergarten: Bringing the Traits to Kinderwriters (all of Great Source). She lives with her family in the beautiful Three Sisters Wilderness area of Central Oregon.

Edition details

• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0801332524
• ISBN 13: 9780801332524
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 400