Linguistics, Writing, Language Arts, Reading & Phonics 

The perfect complement to its phenomenally successful parent book, Creating Writers, 3e, this new text provides clear guidelines on helping young students draft, assess, and revise their writing, as well as explicit criteria to show students precisely what they must do to succeed as writers in virtually any situation-including state tests. In practical and teacher-friendly terms, acclaimed author Vicki Spandel explains 6-trait writing from the inside out, in terms teachers and their students can understand, and offers hands-on links to writing process and to reading, showing that for beginning students, hearing the traits in literature can be as important as expressing them through personally generated text. Better than ever, the book is designed to give practicing and new teachers a more in-depth understanding of the writing process and how it connects to the six traits of writing. A gold mine of activities and lesson ideas make this book ideal for use in the K-3 classroom or as part of a study group. In sum, as reviewers have pointed out, this book "will be a powerful resource for primary teachers." - from Amzon