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Build young writers' competence and confidence with Vicki Spandel's 6-Trait approach! "[A]n essential read for primary writing teachers everywhere!" --Wendy Ellis, Literacy Specialist, Arkansas State Department of Education Creating Young Writers is now packed with more activities, more strategies, more lesson plans, and a goldmine of resources that every new or veteran educator should have! Vicki Spandel's exploration of her powerful 6-trait approach will guide teachers in planning a successful elementary writing program that will help build strong writers from the very beginning! The treasured resource for fostering early writing skills just got better! *Highlights more recommended books to use as mentor resources for every trait --including conventions! *Expands teachers' understanding of how to respond positively to every writer's work. *Encourages teachers who have not tried modeling with their students to do so with confidence. *Offers positive assessment options for virtually ANY writer with revised continuums that focus on what beginning writers CAN do. *Includes a study guide-oriented collection of discussion questions and challenging activities, perfect for a study group!

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #145382 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780205537020
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review

"As a teacher-leader, I recommend Vicki Spandel's materials to fellow teachers, local, county, and state administrators, college professors, and student teachers. Her books, teaching guides, and podcasts never fail to impress educators from a wide variety of backgrounds and experience. Most importantly, her materials show students of all grade levels how to become stronger authentic writers."

- Barbara Andrews, A.C.Stelle Middle School, Calabasas, CA

From the Back Cover

Build young writers’ competence and confidence with Vicki Spandel’s 6-Trait approach!

 “[A]n essential read for primary writing teachers everywhere!”

 –Wendy Ellis, Literacy Specialist, Arkansas State Department of Education

Creating Young Writers is now packed with more activities, more strategies, more lesson plans, and a goldmine of resources that every new or veteran educator should have! Vicki Spandel’s exploration of her powerful 6-trait approach will guide teachers in planning a successful elementary writing program that will help build strong writers from the very beginning!

The treasured resource for fostering early writing skills just got better! 

• Highlights more recommended books to use as mentor resources for every trait —including conventions!
• Expands teachers’ understanding of how to respond positively to every writer’s work.
• Encourages teachers who have not tried modeling with their students to do so with confidence.
• Offers positive assessment options for virtually ANY writer with revised continuums that focus on what beginning writers CAN do.
• Includes a study guide-oriented collection of discussion questions and challenging activities, perfect for a study group!

Meet Vicki Spandel (PHOTO)

Vicki Spandel was co-director of the teacher team that developed the 6-trait model and has designed instructional writing materials for all grade levels, kindergarten through college. She is the author of Creating Writers Through 6-Trait Writing Assessment and Instruction (Allyn & Bacon), The 9 Rights of Every Writer (Heinemann), and The Write Traits Classroom Kits (Great Source Education). Vicki is a former language arts teacher, journalist, technical writer, award winning video producer, and scoring director for more than 80 state and district writing assessments.

About the Author
Vicki Spandel was co-director of the teacher team that developed the 6-trait model and has designed instructional writing materials for all grade levels, K through college.  She is the author of Creating Writers and Creating Young Writers (Pearson Education), The 9 Rights of Every Writer (Heinemann), and The Write Traits Classroom Kits (Great Source Education). Vicki is a former language arts teacher, journalist, technical writer, and scoring director for over 80 state and district writing assessments.

Customer Reviews

A writing teacher's delight
As a primary grade teacher, this new book by Vicki Spandel (Write Traits) really appealed to me. Expectations for writing process in my elementary school have changed in the last few years. Our primary students are expected to write with more conventions and with ever-increasing assessments. This book is full of strategies and ideas to help the primary teacher meet their student's drive to write and draw their stories as well as satisfy the administration's need for more "accountability" with skills. I loved the examples from classrooms using new and familiar techniques and the frank discussions of what to expect from student writers. It is the kind of book one can pick up for an idea to use tomorrow as well as read cover to cover to learn more about writing in the primary classroom. It is easy to read, well researched and realistic for classroom use. I highly recommend this book.

Creating Young Writers: Essential to ALL Primary Teachers
As a consultant in over 15 schools, this book is a permanent fixture in my briefcase. I take it with me when visiting all primary teachers for good reason: it is integral to improving writing for young students. I've read mostly all of Vicki Spandel's work, and this one is yet another gem. It provides a cornucopia of essential information about the six traits of writing - student samples with valuable commentaries, concrete lessons to use immediately, teaching suggestions, assessments, and more. What is also noteworthy is that this book is versatile. It can be used for those not yet familiar with the six traits, those still experimenting with it, and those well-versed who want more tools. Bravo, Vicki, on another vital resource for teachers so they can elicit the best from their students.

Beyond test taking, create life-long writers with voices!
Once again,in her fourth and finest revision of Creating Writers, Vicki shows us how to create more effective,independent writers.Using volumes of practice papers, scores of focused, creative trait lessons, and visits into trait-and-process based classrooms, Creating Writers helps all teachers envision how to design our own instruction models to defeat test anxiety!
You'll find her wise, witty comments on papers invaluable, her linking of reading to writing insightful, and her compassion for struggling writers inspirational. You'll welcome her ideas for teaching traits to beginners and how to use comments, conferences and peer response to support writers. She practices what we know; the source of all best writing topics, the "well" from which we can draw our real writing is our own lives.
Sometimes we need reminders that writing -and teaching writing -can be joyful! Creating Writers,4th edition,and Vicki provide that vision, as they have for me for 20 years. Keep this book on your desk!