Grades 4-6 Writing
“I had the greatest experience at your workshop. You shared realistic take-and-use today activities. I am excited to see how my students’ writing will improve over the next several months.” -MG, Sixth grade teacher, BCSC, Columbus IN
“Thank you for showing us a different approach to using the traits in the classroom. Every presenter I’ve heard has told us to teach each trait separately. This integrated approach is a better fit with the way I teach. I’m excited to try some of your ideas!”
- JM, Grade 8 teacher, Dawson Creek, BC
“I attended your session at the conference in Orlando a few weeks ago and was truly thankful that I did. I struggle to teach writing but I loved your ideas and have already started with some of them. Once again, thank you so much for helping to inspire me so I can inspire my students.” – NS, Fort Myers FL
Workshops may be extended and combined to suit your time frame, from 60 minutes to full day. Contact Lori Jamison to customize a program for your professional development needs
Six Trait Writing Basics
Meet the Six Traits of Effective Writing: Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency and Conventions. This powerful framework helps us use assessment to guide instruction, balance our writing instruction and confer with our students more effectively about their writing. You’ll have an opportunity to score and analyze writing with your colleagues and discuss ways to take every student to higher levels. You will also gain a collection of practical ideas to use immediately in your classroom, from Writing Ideas Bingo to Traffic Light Transitions to RAFTS for rescuing a drowning Voice.
Six Traits – Next Steps: Integrating Trait-based Instruction into your Writing Program
For teachers already familiar with the Six Traits Framework, this workshop looks at integrating the traits into the overall writing program. We’ll discuss how to plan a writing unit of study around the six traits and share practical lesson ideas for six key text forms, including informational, procedural, persuasive, poetic and narrative writing.
The Nonfiction Connection
Learning to writing nonfiction text forms is an important skill for school and for life. In this session, we will look specifically at at the research report and persuasive writing, with practical minilessons for each stage of the writing process, from Telegram Note-taking to Book-end Paragraphs.
Marvelous Minilessons for Teaching Intermediate Writing!
This session is full of ideas from Lori’s new book, with a focus on elaboration and the writer’s craft.
Write-on! Helping Your Students Become More Confident and Competent Writers
This session will focus on the effective teaching of writing. We’ll look implementing the writing workshop in a way that is powerful for students and manageable for teachers. We’ll travel down the journey to publication and discuss tested strategies for helping students plan, draft, revise and edit their writing. We’ll examine the role of the teacher and share ideas for making the most of the ten-minute mini lesson and the three minute writing conference. We’ll also look at how to help students get the most credit for what they know and can do on the large-scale writing assessments.