Creating Young Writers: Using the Six Traits to Enrich Writing Process in Primary Classrooms

by Vicki Spandel

This long-awaited text offers a most comprehensive exploration of Spandel's effective 6-trait approach to writing for K-3 teachers. The perfect complement to its phenomenally successful parent text, 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.

Genres: Teaching, Education, Nonfiction

260 pages, Paperback

Published September 19, 2003

Reviews

[Stephanie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this book to be very helpful in teaching me how to understand exploring the writing process with young kids. The book is definitely geared more towards teachers in the traditional classroom, but I found lots of great information to bring to homeschooling.

Some of the book went over my head, but it was easy to research those parts a little more. This is definitely worth a read if you have young kids that love to tell stories or enjoy drawing pictures. It will help you to learn how to ask the right questions to keep them thinking and developing those ideas into something more.

[Christine Braid · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a learning tool for teachers about the teaching of writing. It is both based in theory and full of practical, inspirational ideas for ways to help children as writers. It is easy to follow, set out in chapters about the writing traits. Each trait has two chapters devoted to it, one for teaching ourselves as teachers and one for classroom practice. It has examples for how to see the traits in children's writing and how to develop them. It has annotated lists of mentor texts to use for each trait. Each chapter concludes with a something to think about and some study questions so a school teaching staff could work through the book as self-guided professional learning.

[Erica Sonzogni · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book gave a lot of helpful information about the 6 Traits and how to integrate them into any current writing program. The chapters where student writing was analyzed became very redundant and could have been much shorter. The chapters where it mentioned different writing ideas were extremely helpful and creative.

[Pam · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book. I always looked at 6 traits as an interesting way to teach writing but this book totally put it in perspective. I love that it gives different books to teach each different trait of writing. This is a must have for any elementary teacher.

[Paige · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought this book was spectacular!! There are so many beautiful children's art and writing examples that really bring clarity to some of the complexities of teaching writing. I believe this is a must have for every teacher!!

[Claire · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was an informative book with good suggestions. I am still looking for something with more suggestions for first grade writers.

[Christel · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an EXCELLENT guide to teaching writing to young students. Phenomenally clear and practical, and a great resource for any elementary classroom!

[Talbot Hook · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good content, horrible font choices.

[Talbot Hook · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good content, horrible font choices.