3-5 Grade Writing Resources

This page contains teachnology tips and sites for each of the six traits of writing.

2-4 Teacher Tasks

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  Investigating the Six Traits 2-4 Teacher tasks.docx
  

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  Personal Narrative 2-4 Holdrege.pptx
  

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Picture Book Lesson Ideas Grades 3-12

• Writing Fix Lessons

Ideas

• Use picture prompts
  • Flickr
  • Getty Images
  • Tagxedo
• Writing Prompts
  • Writing Prompts & Journal Topics
• Pic Lits
• The Story Starter Jr.
• 911 Writer's Block
• ToonDoo

Organization

• Graphic Organizers
• Types and Examples of Transitions
  • Examples of Transitions
• Brainstorming
  • Bubbl us
• Writing Fix Organization
  • Writing Fix
• Use a picture prompt and have students writie beginnings or endings for the picture. Capture their ideas on a Google Doc.
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  sandwich.pdf
  

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  Elaboration.pdf
  

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Voice

• Idiom Site
• Magnetic Poetry
• Instant Poetry Forms
• The Writing Fix
• The Writing Fix- Feeling Game
• Skype
• Skype an Author Network

Word Choice

• Wordle
• Graphwords
• Snappy Words
• Glogster
• Synonyms for Said

Sentence Fluency

• Owl Moon
  • Writing Fix Sentence Fluency Example
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  Ways to Begin.doc
  

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  Ways to End.doc
  

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