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Find a TopicSelect a fresh, original idea that matters to you.
Focus the TopicHome in on what’s most important.
Develop the TopicInclude original information from your own experience or research.
Use DetailsPresent specific, interesting, accurate details to support your idea.
the content of your piece—its central message and the details that support that message
Ideas
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Establish a ToneEnergize your “take” on the topic.
Convey the PurposeLet the reader know why you’re writing.
Create a Connection to the AudienceMake the reader feel strongly about your idea.
Take Risks to Create VoiceTry new, original ways to express yourself.
the tone of the piece—your personal stamp, which is achieved through an understanding of purpose and audience
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Apply Strong VerbsChoose verbs that add energy and create active voice.
Select Striking Words and PhrasesSearch for the perfect words. Use figurative language, such as alliteration, metaphors, and similes.
Use Specific and Accurate WordsStrive for words that convey your message precisely.
Choose Words That Deepen MeaningDig for the best words to spark your reader’s imagination.
the vocabulary you use to convey meaning and enlighten the reader
Word Choice
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Create the LeadGrab your reader’s attention right from the start.
Use Sequence Words and Transition WordsLink ideas logically to guide your reader through the piece.
Structure the BodyOrder details and examples so they flow smoothly.
End With a Sense of ResolutionWrap up your piece and leave the reader thinking about your idea.
the internal structure of your piece—the thread of logic, the pattern of meaning
Organization
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7 Trait Posters: Cool and colorful grade-appropriate posters, one for each trait, that remind students of key qualities to think about as they draft, revise, and edit their work. Each one showcases a “Trait Mate” from the Student Handbook.
Check SpellingSpell words correctly—even if you have to look them up.
Punctuate EffectivelyApply punctuation accurately and creatively. Make your piece easy to read.
Capitalize CorrectlyCapitalize the first word of a sentence, proper nouns, titles, abbreviations, and so forth.
Apply Grammar and UsageTake standard English seriously. Break the rules only for stylistic reasons.
the mechanical correctness of your piece, which helps guide the reader through the text
Conventions
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Apply Handwriting SkillsWrite clearly and legibly. Put even spaces between letters and words.
Use Word Processing Effectively Choose font styles, sizes, and colors that make your piece easy to read.
Make Good Use of White SpaceCreate even margins. Put even spaces between lines. Avoid tears, smudges, and cross-outs.
Refine Text FeaturesUse bulleted lists, charts, pictures, and headers when appropriate.
the physical appearance of your piece—the welcome mat that invites the reader in
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Craft Well-Built SentencesConstruct sentences that convey meaning creatively and clearly.
Vary Sentence TypesInclude simple, compound, and complex sentences.
Capture Smooth and Rhythmic FlowRead your piece aloud to make sure the sentences flow smoothly.
Break the “Rules” to Create FluencyCreate interest with your writing— even if it means breaking a rule!
the way the text looks and sounds as it flows through your piece
Sentence Fluency
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Student Handbook: Includes definitions of the traits and key qualities, worksheets, write-on pages, warm-up activities, “Think Abouts,” author previews, graphic organizers, tip sheets, publishing checklists, and other tools that support instruction. (25 copies per classroom set)
Program Components
Web Resources: Every program comes with access to Traitspace™, a password protected, easy-to-navigate website that includes: • Video interviews with authors of
Mentor Texts• Student materials including warm-up
activities, worksheets, “Think Abouts”, checklists and graphic organizers!
• Benchmark Papers & Assessment Tools• Record-Keeping Forms and much more!
25 Writing Folders: that provide a place for students to stash works in progress. Pockets inside prevent papers from sliding out and the Editing Marks chart on the back provides a handy reference. (Grades 3–8)
Music CD with lively, trait-specific songs to share with your students—two songs for each trait, a vocal version and an instrumental version—with lyrics included in the Student Handbook and on Traitspace. (Grades K–2)
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Unit 2: Week 3 • Voice: Establishing a Tone • Expository
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Party Penguins
These pesky little guys would love to be DIY appetizers at your next party. Just lay out the ingredients and have your guests make a waddle of penguins. That’s what a group of penguins is called.
You’ll need:
Dried dates
Cream cheese
Raisins
Shredded carrot
A little adult help
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A sharp knife
A cutting board
A butter knife
Kitchen shears or scissors
A serving plate
1. Here’s where you might need adult help. If you have unpitted dates you’ll have to take the pit out. Lay a date down on the cutting board. Put the knife down the long way on the date and cut a slit. You want to cut the date almost in half without going through the other side.
2. Take out the pit.3. Spread enough cream cheese in the date to fill it. Smooth it down so it looks neat.4. Cut two tiny pieces of raisin for the eyes. Gently push them into the cream cheese.5. Place a sliver of carrot under the eyes to make the beak.6. Stand those perky penguins on a plate and let’s have a party!
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Unit 7: Week 2 • Organization: Ending With a Sense of Resolution • Persuasive
6Everyday Text
This week a friend asked me what good movies were coming down the pike. “Toy Story 3,” I said. “I mean grown-up movies,” she responded.
I’ve said it before, and I hope to say it many times again in years to come: Pixar makes grown-up movies you can take the kids to, not kids’ movies the grown-up might happen to like.
Times are changing for Woody, Buzz and the rest of the toy crew. Andy is heading to college (typical Pixar nuance: characters that age in real time), so it’s time to bid farewell to his old playthings. A mix-up diverts the toys from their destination in the attic to a local day-care center, where they look forward to being played with again at last. This is, after all, what a toy would live for if a toy could, in fact, live.
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03:22 CDT on Thursday, June 17, 2010
By CHRIS VOGNAR / The Dallas Morning [email protected]
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Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination—the usefulness of toys—and strictly celebrates consumerism.
I feel like a 6-year-old having to report how in Toy Story 3 two dolls—Sheriff Woody (Tom Hanks) and Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen)—try to save a toy box of childhood playthings from either disuse or imprisonment as donations to a daycare center because their human owner, 17-year-old Andy, packs them up as he heads off to college. The toys wage battle with the daycare center’s cynical veteran cast-offs: Hamm the Piggy Bank pig, Lotsa Hugs and Big Baby. But none of these digital-cartoon characters reflect human experience; it’s essentially a bored game that only the brainwashed will buy into...
When Toy Story 3 emulates the suspense of prison break and horror films, it becomes fitfully amusing (more than can be said for Wall-E or Up) but this hour depends on the recognition of worn-out toys, which is no different from those lousy Shrek gags...
The Toy Story franchise isn’t for children and adults, it’s for non-thinking children and adults. When a movie is this formulaic, it’s no longer a toy because it does all the work for you. It’s a sap’s story.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Bored GameToy Story 3 suckers fans to think they can accept this drivelBy Armond White
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Unit 4: Week 2 • Voice: Conveying the Purpose • Persuasive
AMNH SleepoversBe among the lucky few to spend A Night at the Museum!
A Night at the Museum, the American Museum of Natural History’s wildly popular nocturnal adventure experience, has new and exciting updates this fall. Blast off alongside the Atlantis STS-125 crew to witness some of the most challenging spacewalks ever performed, and experience Hubble Space Telescope’s striking images of the universe in the awe-inspiring IMAX film Hubble screening in the LeFrak IMAX Theater. Explore our live-animal exhibitions with knowledgeable Museum explainers and challenge yourself with one of our fun Museum Quests. End your night by falling asleep in the darkened halls of one of the world’s most famous museums.
As the doors close and the lights dim, you and your group will head out with flashlights in search of adventure. Find yourselves in the Hall of North American Mammals, staring down a herd of wild buffalo. Climb the stairs and you’re in
the Age of Dinosaurs, standing beneath a 65-million-year-old T. rex. Then, as the night comes to a magical close, settle down beneath the 94-foot-long blue whale, next to the Alaskan brown bear, or at the base of a volcanic formation.
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Unit 8: Week 2 • Sentence Fluency: Breaking the “Rules” to Create Fluency • Expository
7Everyday Text
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26 Mentor Texts: A collection of fiction and nonfiction books and “everyday texts” serve as models for teaching the key qualities of the Traits. Books and everyday texts align to a lesson in the Teaching Guide and most are accompanied by a video of the writer who created it. (26 mentor texts per classroom set.)
Comments Book: Contains 100 ”just-right” comments, correlated to the trait scoring guides. Write the comments on papers or use them in one-on-one conferences, small groups, and whole class lessons to inspire students! (1 copy per classroom set)
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In Grades 6-8 Mentor Texts come in excerpt form and are compiled into a Literature Anthology. (1 copy per classroom set)
Sample Grade 3