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**Week One ~ Introduction and Ideas**

**Reading Suggestions** Introduction Forward by Barry Lane
 * Preface
 * Chapter 1 Face to Face with the Six Traits (This will give you an overview of the traits at the k-3 level)
 * Chapter 8 Assessing Young Writers
 * Primary Rubrics beginning on page 251.

Trait #1: Ideas **Thought questions we may address:** **Websites we can check out:** [] [] [] audio recorder [] posters [] posters [|[[http://www.mywritingfriends.com/MeetYourFriends/tabid/57/Default.aspx]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Timeline/Checklist for Ideas – p.35
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Connecting to Ideas - p.8
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Teaching of Ideas - pp. 86-91
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Teaching strategies – pp.109-116
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Books for Teaching Ideas – pp. 196-202
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">How do you teach “ideas” in your own practice?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Is there something in these readings that you would like to try in class right now?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Is there any idea you do not think that would work?

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Ideas:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[] list poem <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[] ideas for free write <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**Explore:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[] six traits scoring practice <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[] scoring practice <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[] scoring hints for K, 1, and 2 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[|[[http://www.cyberspaces.net/6traits/rubric1.html|[[http://www.cyberspaces.net/6traits/rubric1.html] k-2 scoring rubrics

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