Evaluation / Assessment
6 Traits Teaching Materials
Conventions
Ideas and Content
Word Choice
Sentence Fluency
Organization
Speaking Items

6 Trait + 1 Writing Assessment and Feedback Form - Helps students think about different ways to improve their writing while making scoring more objective and simple.
6 Trait + 1 Writing Assessment and Feedback Form - Same as above except this version has areas for separate student and teacher comments.
Essay Evaluation Sheet - Use this sheet to help students reflect on their writing and to give them feedback on different aspects of writing an essay.
Poster Evaluation - Evaluates a poster by looking at 10 different criteria. (Requires Acrobat Reader) (76 Kb)

Resources and writing samples to help teach the six traits of good writing known as Conventions, Ideas and Content, Word Choice, Voice, Sentence Fluency, and Organization

100 Words Often Misspelled
About Sentences - This sheet has some concise information on how to write a sentence and how to analyze whether a "sentence", is indeed, a sentence.
Contractions Mini-Posters Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4 - Page 5 - Page 6 - Page 7


Self-Editing Sheet (Grade 6) - This sheet can be used in conjunction with the 6th grade Writer's Craft text to help students proof and edit their own work.
Self-Editing Sheet (Grade 7) - This sheet can be used in conjunction with the 7th grade Writer's Craft text to help students proof and edit their own work.
Revision Checklist - Asks about 27 yes/no revision questions as well as a few open-ended ones. (Requires Acrobat Reader) (49 Kb)

Quick Verb Chart - This pretest can be used to help students learn past tenses of irregular forms of common verbs. Answers to Quick Verb Chart
Quick Verb Chart - Undivided Categories Version (more difficult than categorized version above)
Quick Verb Chart - Scrambled Version (more difficult than Undivided Categories Version above)

5 Ws and How Sheet - Help students write and speak informatively
Show It--Don't Say It - Get students to write better by showing,not just telling.
Ideas and Content Analysis Chart - Helps analyze ideas and content use

Introduction to Wordbanks -
Descriptive People Words -
Words for "Friend"
How Things Smell - Descriptive Words
How Things Smell 2 - More Descriptive Words
Mini-thesaurus -Words for good, nice, great or then
Mini-thesaurus -Words for big, small or little
Mini-thesaurus -Words for said
Mini-thesaurus -Words for went, ran, asked or answered
Transition Words - Words for all types of transitions
Word Choice Analysis Chart - Helps analyze word choice use

Sentence Fluency Analysis Chart - Helps analyze sentence fluency use

Organization Analysis Chart - Helps analyze organizational use
Transition Words - Words for all types of transitions

Discussion Score Sheet - Here is a score sheet which can be used by teachers or students to improve the quality of group discussions.

Increasing English Use in the Class - Ideas for increasing target language in the class.
Increasing English Use in the Class - Mini Poster (PDF Document 36Kb)

Quick Verb Chart - This pretest can be used to help students learn past tenses of irregular forms of common verbs. Answers to Quick Verb Chart
Quick Verb Chart - Undivided Categories Version (more difficult than categorized version above)
Verb Chart - Scrambled Version (more difficult than Undivided Categories Version above)