The 6 Writing Treats

 

The writing treats

 

What are the 6 Traits?

The Six Traits of Writing are rooted in more than 50 years of research. This research reveals that all good writing has six key components such as ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions.

These key components provide teachers and students a common understanding of how to compose, revise, and assess all types of writing. They are inherent in well-written essays, reports, blogs, poems, videos, and other genres.

Learning about these treats should not only be for the teacher but for the students also learning about these treats can help students to communicate about the strengths and weaknesses in writing. The Six Traits take the mystery out of what a “good” one looks and sounds like.

The power in the traits is that they offer a mean of collectively grouping many skills together under one umbrella name

Each trait represents related skills that have a similar impact on the overall writing. Again, the Six Traits are just six words that organize writing instruction!

While the Six Traits of Writing are inherently present in state and national standards and in all curriculums, it can take a critical eye to parse out individual subskills and tie them to specific traits.

Here is a video to show a better understanding of how we can use the 6 writing traits in the students' work.