Daily 6-Trait Writing Grade 8

Scaffolded, explicit instruction improves your 8th graders’ writing! The 25 weekly units provide trait-based writing practice, covering the essential traits of strong writing: ideas, organization, word choice, sentence fluency, voice, & conventions.   Each teacher resource book contains creative ideas and materials to enhance teaching. From classroom décor to thematic units to free-time activities, teacher resource books provide materials that you can use in your classroom.Daily 6-Trait Writing gives your eighth graders scaffolded, focused writing practice. Each of the 25 weekly units provides trait-based writing practice in concise activities that cover the essential traits of strong writing: ideas, organization, word choice, sentence fluency, voice, and conventions. The weekly units present a writing skill on Day 1, and writing activities progress in difficulty until students apply what they’ve learned to a writing prompt on Day 5. Daily 6-Trait Writing is easy to use and offers you the flexibility to teach weekly units in consecutive order or to pick and choose lessons to meet student needs. 25 weeks of instruction cover the following trait-based writing skills: Unit 1: IdeasWeek 1:             Focusing Your TopicWeek 2:             Supporting the Main IdeaWeek 3:             Developing Story ElementsWeek 4:             Maintaining Your FocusWeek 5:             Writing from Experience Unit 2: OrganizationWeek 1:             Organizing Information LogicallyWeek 2:             Connecting DetailsWeek 3:             Deciding on the OrganizationWeek 4:             Writing an Effective IntroductionWeek 5:             Writing Effective Conclusions Unit 3: Word ChoiceWeek 1:             Communicating ClearlyWeek 2:             Writing About ActionWeek 3:             Using Figurative LanguageWeek 4:             Avoiding Overused LanguageWeek 5:             Writing for the Topic and the Audience Unit 4: Sentence FluencyWeek 1:             Creating a Purposeful RhythmWeek 2:             Varying Sentence Structure and LengthWeek 3:             Fluency in PoetryWeek 4:             Using QuotationsWeek 5:             Writing a Smooth Paragraph Unit 5: VoiceWeek 1:             Using Your Own VoiceWeek 2:             Writing from Different Points of ViewWeek 3:             Making a Story EngagingWeek 4:             Using the Right Voice for the PurposeWeek 5:             Connecting with Your Readers