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Jan 5, 2007
I am starting to teach 6 traits writing for the first time
to a class of first and second graders and I could use
some advice.
I began reading the book by Ruth Culham, 6 + 1 Traits of
Writing for Primary Grades. I have just read the first
few chapters so I will begin with the trait of IDEAS since
I have not had training in this method of teaching writing
and will not have time to read the rest of the book before
next week.
I have a lesson plan from the writing fix website and will
start with that.
Now the question: I see from the book that at this grade
level the students do pictures with illustrations on the
same page. Which should they do first, or does it
matter? Pictures and then the text? Or the text then
illustrate?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Carmen
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What a great question, Carmen. Some of my students use
drawings (I stress quick--not time-consuming artwork) as their
prewriting. But all illustration comes AFTER the piece is
written. I believe this is how picture books are done as
well; first the author writes the words, then the illustrator
(whom the autho...See More