Introducing "The Six Traits of Writing"

   

   Last week we showed you great examples of “The Six Traits of Writing”. Some of us chose to write about people, food, bedrooms et cetera. Well, this week we are writing about “The Six Traits of Writing” again.

   Do you like plays? Well, you’re in luck because “The Six Traits of Writing will perform in a wonderful play! So I suggest you to sit down, relax, and enjoy reading the play that many people have waiting for to read. Remember this is a great chance to learn all about “The Six Traits of Writing”.

                  Lights, Camera, Action!

   

  Ideas and Content- Why hello Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, and Conventions.

  Organization- Why hi, how do you do Ideas and Content?

  Ideas and Content- I’m ok.

  Conventions- My goodness I’m so hungry I can eat a whole cow!

  Sentence Fluency- There, there Conventions, don’t worry, Voice brought many appetizing treats.

  Conventions- Oh, okay.

  Voice- Word Choice, why do you like so sad? Are you okay? Did something happen? Are you hungry? Are you tired? Are you bored? Will you tell me what’s wrong? Is your kitty, puppy, turtle, pony, fish, ferret, guinea pig, hamster, ch-

  Ideas and Content- Voice, please can’t you see Word choice is trying to think? You know she is very quite and doesn’t talk when she is trying to think, please if you think she is sad, than you are wrong.

Word Choice- I’m ok. I was just thinking about what our appreciative, beautiful, creative, delightful, enthusiastic, fantastic, good, helpful, jumpy, k-

  Organization- How can we be jumpy?

  Voice- Or interesting? Yes, I agree on the rest but-

  Ideas and Content- Organization and Voice, why didn’t you let Word Choice finish talking?

  Word Choice- Oh, its ok Ideas and Content, It doesn’t really matter. Besides, I’m really used to it.

  Conventions- Ideas and Content, Word Choice, Organization, Voice, and Sentence Fluency, I think we should stop all of this chitchat and get going to our meeting room, you know the room we have meetings in.

  Ideas and content- You’re right Conventions, we should get a move on.

  Sentence Fluency- Can we eat first? Can we? What’s the meeting about? How long will it last? Are you ready? Am I ready? Are all of you-

  Ideas and Content- Sentence Fluency, we are in this important meeting today because we have to discuss an awful Writing assignment that a teacher sent to us. She sent it to us because she wants us to check over one of her students’ paper. Just imagine, the girl is in 5^th grade! And she has never used US in her writing assignments.

  Word Choice- Well, that little 5^th grade girl should be ashamed of herself for not using us in any of her 5^th grade writing assignments!

  Sentence Fluency-Is her paper clear? Are her details in order? Did she state her opinion? Did she use exciting words? Did she have complete sentences? Did she have space between her words?

  Ideas and Content- That’s why we are here today to check her awful paper, and we will help the little girl get a good idea of how important we all are. We will write back a letter talking about how the 5^th grade girl can improve her writing.

  Conventions- I guess we should enter the meeting room. We have to start quickly. We’ve spent almost an hour out here.

  Ideas and content- Word Choice, do you have the folder that contains the girl’s writing assignment?

  Word choice- Yes, I do.

  Sentence Fluency- Ideas and Content, can you read the paper to us now that we are in the room?

  Ideas and Content- Of course I will, everybody please take notes on this, remember your jobs. The girls name is

Chelsea

. This is what she wrote.

                                 F-

                                    “My kitty and me

  My kiity is purty; my kitty is orange like

Garfield

. I have a dog named snuggles I went to Thu store and bought some shoes. I luv computers do you love computers I have 6 sisters and 7 bruthers I have a guinea pig they purty you purty. Bye, me got to go to the pet store and bought some shoes

The end

Sentence Fluency- Goodness this child wrights awful. No wonder she got an F-. We definitely need to write this girl a letter that clearly states how to improve her writing.

Dear Chelsea,

   My name is Ideas and Content. After I read your paper, I was a little bit confused. One reason was because you had many, many spelling errors. The 2^nd reason was because your topic didn’t make any sense at all. The 3^rd reason was because your topic had nothing to do with your title. I’m a little concerned about your writing. I would gladly appreciate it if you would right back and send us another writing assignment you have done in 5^th grade. I would also like it if you could ask the student in you class that has the best grades in writing to send us one of her/his writing assignments. Then we could compare both writing assignments. We will also grade your paper and the other child’s paper.

                                                        Sincerely,

                                                   Ideas and Content.

  Sentence Fluency- I guess we are finished with this meeting.

  Ideas and content- Actually we aren’t finished yet. As soon as

Chelsea

sends us-

  Word Choice- I think she’ll send us a letter later. Write now what we have to do is get some rest and some food to eat.

  Ideas and Content- you are right. Let’s go to sleep. Good night everybody.

Did you like the play? Would you like to write a letter to one of the members of “The Six Traits of writing?

 

 

Comments

[Bronwyn G]

Poor Chelsea! The six traits did give her a workover, didn't they?

It's not a student's fault she hasn't heard of the six traits.

I especially liked Word Choice and her contribution to the proceedings.

Dear Word Choice:

Thank you for showing a good vocabulary and adding interest to any story or poem that we may write. I know you work together with the other five traits.

Dear Sentence Fluency:

When I string two good sentences together, I would like to thank you for your contribution to my writing. Without you I could not put my ideas together so I am grateful you are around. Sometimes in writing great effects can be created by disrupting you, but is it generally a good idea?

Dear Voice, thank you for the appetising treats. I am sure the other Traits ate them up. Without food Traits get hungry.

[graciela]

Thank you very much for commenting to this post. Do you think people around the world actually use the "Six Traits of Writing"? Sometimes I wonder why people are always worrying about their writing. I guess they worry about their writing because they probably don't use "The Six Traits of Writing". WEll, do you use "The Six Traits of Writing"? :P

[derrick]

I like your post thungy majeir

[graciela]

Derrick, thanks for the 'comment'.
PEACE OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!