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Description

Welcome to Six Traits of Writing Model: Teaching & Assessing, a course geared primarily for professionals (e.g., regular or special educators, instructional assistants, school psychologists, counselors) working with children and youth in any academic area. This course focuses on why teaching writing is an essential skill for life, and gives theory and practical steps to implement the six traits of writing in any classroom.

This computer-based instruction course is a self-supporting program that provides instruction, structured practice, and evaluation all on your home or school computer. Technical support information can be found in the Help section of your course.

Syllabus, Objectives, and Outcomes

Objectives:

As a result of this course, participants will demonstrate their ability to:

• Analyze how to integrate teaching the elements of Six Traits of Writing.
• Integrate assessing the elements of Six Traits of Writing.
• Analyze how to integrate teaching the ideas of writing.
• Analyze how to integrate teaching the organization of writing.
• Integrate assessing writing ideas and organization of writing.
• Analyze how to integrate teaching finding voice.
• Analyze how to integrate teaching word choice.
• Integrate assessing writing voice and word choice.
• Analyze how to teach sentence fluency.
• Analyze how to teach English conventions.
• Integrate assessing sentence fluency and conventions.

Course Materials (Online):

Title:  Six Traits of Writing Model: Teaching & Assessing, Dr. Karen Lea

Review Syllabus: Six_Traits_of_Writing_Model_Karen_Lea_VESi.pdf - COURSE MUST BE COMPLETED AND SUBMITTED BY AUGUST 15th, 2025.

Testimonials:

"THE CONTENT WAS WELL-ORGANIZED AND VERY THOROUGH."

"COURSE WAS EXCELLENT."

"IT WAS AN EXCELLENTLY PACED AND VERY THOROUGH EXAMINATION OF THE SIX TRAITS OF WRITING. THIS COURSE WILL DIRECTLY IMPACT MY TEACHING PRACTICES."