Our school wants to go school wide with 6 trait writing. Has anyone had experience with this and LD students. We already have a rubric that we include in our IEP’s to grade primary writing and intermediate writing. It is very specific and covers all parts of a good paragraph. I wonder if rubrics for 6-trait are specific enought for our students. Let me know what you think.
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And… that was me :-)
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Look into Nancy Fetzer. She incorporates the six traits, which are just traits of good writing that need to be taught, into a very workable model for teaching writing, including LD students.
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I have an LD son (school diagnosis is a LD in written expression, some dyslexic tendencies also) and a non-LD daughter who went to a school that used the 6-trait writing instruction. It was great for my daughter, it was not enough for my son. He still needed more personalized instruction on how to formulate a paragraph and a paper. If you’ve got rubrics that work with the LD kids, I’d highly recommend sticking with those.
Kay
It’s like anything else - so much depends on the teacher.
6 traits *does* at least have some structure, and that’s what our kids need a lot more of. I think it lends itself to building in more for students that need it.
I would imagine there’s a fair amount of info about 6 Traits online — first place I would look (and if I get time today, I’ll put on the Surfin’ Sally hat & do it :)) would be in the LM_NET (school librarians’ listserv) archives, since librarians do a lot of work with this.