A workshop designed to look at the basics of the 6 traits and how they can apply to the teaching of writing across the curriculum

1. WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM Exploring the 6 Traits Shanghai American School, Pudong Campus Shanghai, China February 11, 2008 Presenter: Fay Leong

3. How do you feel about teaching writing? Edvard Munch, The Scream , 1893

5. Essential questions

6. What kind of writing do we expect our students to be learning/doing?

7. Once we know the purpose, what characteristics make good writing?

8. Writing Frameworks

9. No framework = a big mess

14. 6+1 Traits

24. Writing Assessments

28. Rubrics: Scoring writing assessments

32. To Re-cap