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)
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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
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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
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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
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Sentence Fluency Analysis Chart - Helps analyze sentence fluency use
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Organization Analysis Chart - Helps analyze organizational use
Transition Words - Words for all types of transitions
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