The one page 6+1 Cheat Sheets I posted last week were well received, so I thought I would share the PowerPoint I will be using when I provide my overview workshop later this month. Your suggestions would be most welcome since my original workshop was delayed due to snow.  Here is the PowerPoint….

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Over the past couple of weeks I have been preparing for several upcoming workshops. During one of my workshops I will be introducing K-12 teachers to the 6 +1 Traits. As part of that presentation I created some one-sheet “cheat sheets.” I used the embed feature of DocStoc to share the sheets with you today. I hope you find them helpful!

The following sites have posted some excellent (free) 6 + 1 Trait Posters that you may also find helpful:

• Edina Public Schools
• Reading Lady.com
• Writing Fix.com
• Teaching that Makes Sense
• This Little Light of Mine

Later this week I will be looking at student writing with teachers. I put together the following materials so that we can reference them when we work together and thought perhaps you might find them useful as well.


Writing Exemplars

• Oregon Grade 3 - includes five levels of Narrative, Expository, and Imaginative writing
• Oregon Grade 5 - includes five levels of Narrative, Expository, Persuasive, and Imaginative writing
• Exemplars.com – includes a small sampling of K-4 writing lessons and exemplars (exemplars are found toward the bottom of each page)
• Houghten Mifflin Benchmark Papers – each set shows a range of scores for all modes taught in  grades K-5 Houghton Mifflin English. An analysis of each model is also provided.
• Anchor Papers for Emergent Readers

GRADES 6-8

• Oregon Grade 6 – includes five levels of Narrative, Expository, Persuasive, and Imaginative writing
• Oregon Grade 8 – includes five levels of Narrative, Expository, Persuasive, and Imaginative writing
• 6 + 1 Trait Writing Scored Examples

GRADES 9-12

• Maryland Anchor Papers
• Practice Scoring K-12

MULTI-AGE LEVELS

• Ontario Grades 1-8 – the site includes four levels of annotated writing for each grade as well as copies of the assessment rubrics
• New Zealand Curriculum Exemplars – the site includes poetic writing character development and personal experience,  as well as transactional explanation and argument exemplars
• Nova Scotia 1-8 Exemplars
• The Writing Site - select a grade level (1-12)  and a genre to explore various writing exemplars
• Write Source – grades 1-12 (simple exemplars)

Scoring Guides

The following sites have posted writing scoring guides that you can review and consider as you develop assessments for your district: