ORGANIZATION

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ORGANIZATION

• 6 Trait Writing

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ORGANIZATION

• Affirm what you are teaching
• Take a yellow card from your table.
• Read the card and decide as a table group which
  trait is described on your card.
• Attach the card to one of the trait posters
  around the room.
• Discuss with the group at the poster Why are
  these cards a part of this trait?
• Choose a spokesperson for your group and be ready
  to share with the large group.

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ORGANIZATION

• Write about
• A Teacher
• Ill Never
• Forget

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6 Keys to Teaching Traits

• Introduce the concept of traits
• Surround students with writers language
• Teach students to be assessors

• Use written works to illustrate strengths
• Use focused lessons
• Teach students to do focused revision

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Introduce the Concept of Traits
ORGANIZATION

• Internal structure of the piece like a skeleton
  or the framework of a building

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Introduce the Concept of Traits
ORGANIZATION

• Engaging lead
• Details and new developments
• Strong transitions
• Thought provoking close

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Introduce the Concept of Traits
ORGANIZATION

• Good prose is architecture
• Hemingway

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WRITING PROCESSwhere does ORGANIZATION fit?
Organization
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6 Keys to Teaching Traits

• Introduce the concept of traits
• Surround students with writers language
• Teach students to be assessors

• Use written works to illustrate strengths
• Use focused lessons
• Teach students to do focused revision

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ORGANIZATIONSurround Students with Writers
Language

• Guides the reader
• Strong lead
• Natural, effective transition
• Smooth flow point to point

• Orderly arrangement of information
• Good pacing
• Satisfying conclusion

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The Two Faces of the Traits

• Different faces for different purposes
• Link traits to purpose
• Understand shifts in writing

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The Two Faces of the Traits

• CREATIVE,PERSONAL FACEThe Key Does the
  flow of the writing keep you reading?

• INFORMATIONAL
• FACE
• The Key
• Does organization help you understand key points
  or issues?

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The Two Faces of the Traits

• CREATIVE,PERSONAL FACE
• Hooks the reader
• Clear transitions
• Wow of an ending
• Main Point

• INFORMATIONAL FACE
• To-the-point lead
• Connecting structure
• Informs and educates
• Ending reinforces main point

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ORGANIZATIONSurround Students with Writers
Language

• The internal structure of the piece
• Beginning,middle and ending
• Ability to organize and group
• Good sense of sequence

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ORGANIZATIONSurround Students with Writers
Language

• GOOD ORGANIZATION
• A great opening to hook you
• Easy to follow
• Transitions link idea to idea to idea
• Builds to the good parts
• A powerhouse ending ties it all up

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6 Keys to Teaching Traits

• Introduce the concept of traits
• Surround students with writers language
• Teach students to be assessors

• Use written works to illustrate strengths
• Use focused lessons
• Teach students to do focused revision

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ORGANIZATIONTeach Students to be Assessors

• Rubric
• Sharing and scoring of papers
• Read, share and score
• Strange Visiter
• Computing Batting Averages
• Chad
• Student Writing Samples

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6 Keys to Teaching Traits

• Introduce the concept of traits
• Surround students with writers language
• Teach students to be assessors

• Use written works to illustrate strengths
• Use focused lessons
• Teach students to do focused revision

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ORGANIZATIONUse Written Works to Illustrate
Strengths

• Books, Lessons, Ideas for Teaching the Six Traits
• Seedfolks (Fleischman, Paul)

Picture ORGANIZATION as a wheel.
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ORGANIZATIONUse Written Works to Illustrate
Strengths

• My Favorite Leads (Barry Lane)
• Abraham Lincoln

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ORGANIZATIONUse Written Works to Illustrate
Strengths

• My Favorite Leads (Barry Lane)
• Martin Luther King Jr.

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ORGANIZATIONUse Written Works to Illustrate
Strengths

• My Favorite Leads (Barry Lane)
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Roald Dahl

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ORGANIZATIONUse Written Works to Illustrate
Strengths

• My Favorite Leads (Barry Lane)
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Roald Dahl
• J.D. Salinger

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ORGANIZATION

• Write about
• A Teacher
• Ill Never
• Forget

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6 Keys to Teaching Traits

• Introduce the concept of traits
• Surround students with writers language
• Teach students to be assessors

• Use written works to illustrate strengths
• Use focused lessons
• Teach students to do focused revision

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ORGANIZATIONUse Focused Lessons

• Build a Lesson
• Choose a piece of writing
• Design a brief writing activity
• Uses lessons from your handouts as a springboard
• MODEL through your writing

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ORGANIZATIONUse Focused Lessons

• FOCUSED LESSONS
• Focused on Leads
• Build Strong Transitions
• Merry Mix-Up
• Ending Possibilities
• Making Bulletin Boards
• Teach the Concept

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ORGANIZATIONUse Focused Lessons

• Merry Mix-Up
• Sea Snakes Champion Divers

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ORGANIZATIONUse Focused Lessons

• Teach the Concept
• What do you organize?

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6 Keys to Teaching Traits

• Introduce the concept of traits
• Surround students with writers language
• Teach students to be assessors

• Use written works to illustrate strengths
• Use focused lessons
• Teach students to do focused revision

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ORGANIZATIONTeach Students to do Focused
Revisions

• Problem 1 The lead doesnt work. It just
  restates the assignment. Im bored already.

• Brainstorm possible leads.
• Share your own leadsMODEL!
• Collect leads.
• Stacking winners and losers.

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ORGANIZATIONTeach Students to do Focused
Revisions

• Whats the most boring way you could begin a
  research report about the human brain? A rattle
  snake? The United States Constitution? We all
  know.

In this report I will tell you about
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ORGANIZATIONTeach Students to do Focused
Revisions

• Leads are magic flashlights that shine down
  through a story showing the writer what to put in
  and what to leave out.
• John McPhee

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ORGANIZATIONTeach Students to do Focused
Revisions

• Problem 2 Details and events are not in
  order. Trying to follow this writing is like
  running through a giant maze.

• Expository
• Narrative
• Make predictions
• Map pieces of writing.

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ORGANIZATIONTeach Students to do Focused
Revisions

• Problem 3 Transitions are weak or Help!
  missing altogether.

• Brainstorm a list of transitional words.
• Create a connection.

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ORGANIZATIONTeach Students to do Focused
Revisions

• Problem 4 Conclusion? What conclusion? It
  just stops. Wait-No, Not that! Not the dreaded
  dream ending!

• Brainstorm a list of bad endings.
• Talk about ways to end.
• Ask students to guess.
• List kinds of endings.

The End!
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6 Tips for Success in ORGANIZATION

• Spend time on a good lead.
• Have a center.
• Gather information in chunks.
• Try to see a pattern.
• Link ideas together
• End with flair.

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ORGANIZATION

• Always grab your reader by the throat in the
  first paragraph, sink your thumbs into his
  windpipe in the second, and hold him against the
  wall until the tagline.
• Paul ONeil, Marketer

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ORGANIZATION

• You dont have to write well to increase your
  understanding of a written text. I played
  football badly and hockey worse, but I understand
  those sports best because I have had the
  experience of playing, the view from within the
  action.
• Donald Murray, Read to Write