Grade 6 Writing Topics Practiced

• Prewriting: Freewrite, web, list, cluster.  List ideas.  Number ideas.  
• Draft: Use organized list to write draft.
• Paragraphs: Topic Sentence followed by detailed sentences.  
• Internet Goals.  Using google docs: team writing
• Prewriting: How do you get ideas for your topic?   Choice writing: lists, numbered lists; Write Source 50-51;    Organize your prewriting.
• Revision Strategy:    Prepositional Phrases: add detail to you sentences:
• Original Sentence: The poodle barked.
• Revised Sentence: The black poodle in the back seat of the jeep in our driveway barked at the calico cat in the living room window.
• Power Write --- free write on your topic to learn to write many ideas at once.  Edit.
• 4Bs of Internet Safety: Most important -- be overly positive and include no personal information
• Goal/Plan
• Prewriting Ideas:  Write a list of alphabet words and phrases (such as things you know how to do)
• Power Write for fluency; freewrite for many ideas on your topic; Edit
• Prewrite with graphic organizer:  lists of topics for your idea:
• Where I’m from: people, food, places, entertainment
• Prewrite using senses:  listen to music related to topic
• Organize work: Table of Contents  (Study Skill) Create a Table of Contents in your notebook (text organization)
• Prewriting Strategies: Graphic organization; timeline
• Organize prewriting by highlighting what you will include and numbering the items in a logical order.
• Use your organization to write a first draft poem:
• 4 Stanzas
• Detailed ideas
• Peer Review:  Read others work and offer feedback -- something you like in the writing and something you question or suggest (Stars and Wishes)