Application of the 6+1 Traits of Writing

 

(Pinterest, 2020)

The day was Friday 20th November 2020. The day I felt like I finally understood the reason why we completed the topic the 6+1 traits of writing. When we finalized the topic 6+1 Traits of Writing, I never really understood the reason why we did this topic. I thought that this topic was only done since we needed to complete the course outline. Then the time came when we had to analyze a child’s writing piece. When we had to complete this task I grew confused because I cannot analyze my work so how can I analyze another child’s work. After having numerous ‘drills’ on how to analyze the child’s work I realized that the strengths and weaknesses we were coming up with were from the 6+1 traits of writing. As a result of completing this session, I realize that you need to use the 6+1 Traits of Writing to analyze students' work. I can also use the 6+1 Traits of Writing to analyze my writing pieces. I found it quite difficult to remember the 6+1 traits of writing so I have developed a mnemonic to memorize it. This is ‘Idle oranges voice words to create sentences perfectly.’ Idle-Ideas, Oranges- Organization, Voice-Voice, Words- Word Choice, Create- Conventions, Sentences- Sentence Fluency, Perfectly- Presentation.

I must confess that I still do not feel like I can analyze students' writing effectively. To give myself practice I will help analyze my siblings writing pieces as well as my community children’s work. I will also seek assistance from my more knowledgeable peers.

As a future teacher, I will use a rubric for the 6+1 Traits of writing, to help me to analyze the students work to give students corrections. I will also use the 6+1 Traits of writing rubric to help assist me in correcting my pieces for my writing portfolio and when I decide to write more pieces.

 

References

Pinterest. (2020). Retrieved from https://www.pinterest.com/pin/393290979929176397/