Received: from [209.75.187.203] (HELO ) by MDCCLXXVI.com (Stalker SMTP Server 1.8b6) with SMTP id S.0000350862 for <6Tarchive@CyberSpaces.net>; Thu, 07 Oct 1999 23:10:03 -0700 Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 23:10:01 -0700 Subject: 6Traits Digest #85 - 10/07/99 From: "SixTraitsMailring" <6Traits@> To: "SixTraitsMailring" <6Traits@> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Sender: <6Traits@> Precedence: Bulk List-Software: LetterRip Pro 3.0.6 by Fog City Software, Inc. List-Subscribe: List-Digest: List-Unsubscribe: Message-Id: 6Traits Digest #85 - Thursday, October 7, 1999 Voice books by "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> Re: 6Traits- teaching the rubrics by "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> There's one . . . . by "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Voice books From: "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 20:26:25 -0700 Hello, all, I'm working *slowly* on the book resources - books to teach each trait, taken from lists you sent during class this summer. The books for primary and intermediate voice are up on the web site. If you didn't indicate a reading level, and I didn't recognize the book, I didn't put it on a list. I hope later to include the more adult books, so there is a high school resource, as well. All it will take is time. =3D) http://CyberSpaces.net/traits/ Susan Nixon 2nd Grade Phoenix, AZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: 6Traits- teaching the rubrics From: "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 20:32:38 -0700 >What ideas do you have for using rubrics with primary kids? Welcome, Wendy! We talked about this a bit during our online class this summer. The rubrics can be made into simplified posters that the primary students can understand. I tried this with the voice rubric with my second graders. I put one idea on each decorative sheet of paper. These are the ones I = used. Printed on 8-1/2 x 11 paper in large type - maybe with a nice border. VOICE My writing and my pictures show others what I see or feel. Student poster of questions to ask about voice: VOICE * Does this piece of writing sound like me? * Did I use words that express what I think and feel? * Will my readers find this interesting and want to read more? It has been helpful as a check list for them to have these posted on the = wall. If you wanted to be more specific, you could put up each of the levels the same way. I just wrote them on the board for my students during our discussion of the K-2 rubric. Susan Nixon 2nd Grade Phoenix, AZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: There's one . . . . From: "Susan Nixon" <susan@desertskyone.com> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 20:35:18 -0700 Today we read _A Giraffe and a Half_ by Shel Silverstein. I asked my students to see if they could hear the author's voice and guess who it = was. I showed the pictures, and that probably gave it away anyway, but they = did come up with Uncle Shelby's name. Except for one little boy who raised = his hand and when I called on him, he leaned back nonchalantly and said, "I didn't hear nobody's voice!" There's one in every crowd! =3D) Susan Nixon 2nd Grade Phoenix, AZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- End of 6Traits Digest -- To unsubscribe, send any message at all to: 6Traits-off@. Archive of past digests is at: