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We as teachers don't always need to be re-inventing the wheel. A multitude of resources are available on the Internet that will help you with teaching using the Six Traits. Some quality links follow. Enjoy.

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It's the Internet, according to Richard Sterling, former director of the National Writing Project and a faculty member of the Graduate School of Education at Berkeley University. Sterling notes that for many years writing has been neglected in schools, but the Internet has triggered an ``explosion of writing.''

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George Orwell’s 5 Rules for Effective Writing

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Clever little site devoted to punctuation. Fun for teachers looking for a fresh angle.

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"If I want attention for an hour or so, however, I'll tell them my horrible secret — for several years I made much of my freelance income writing term papers. " A good read that raises real questions about writing term papers.

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Comprehensive Writing Instruction: Improve student writing with: Genre studies & lessons, Animations & web tools, Professional development

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gazillions more creative writing exercises than the millions generated by the original handheld Story Spinner!

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Creative Writing Prompts Updated Every Monday Through Friday

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Use the creative writing prompts and creative writing ideas to create stories, poems and other creative pieces from your imagination. The writing prompts can even help you come up with creative content for blogs and blog stories.

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The Story Starter provides 345,935,040 creative ideas for writers of all ages. All of the story starters are randomly generated. The story starters can be used for short stories, novels, plays, scripts, or just for fun.

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Sifting through the many different websites that are designed for writers can be quite tedious. To make life easier and give you more time to write, we compiled a list of the 40 best websites for young writers.

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The National Writing Project has been around more than 30 years. But it now showcases writing as a tool to unlock students’ critical thinking and analytical skills as much as their creativity.

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Each week, for the next 50, I will describe a writing tool that has been useful to me. I have borrowed these tools from writers and editors, from authors of books on writing, and from teachers and writing coaches. Many come from the X-ray reading of texts I admire.

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6+1 Traits for Revision
A toolbox of skills to give teachers and students a common vision for revision

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How to improve the teaching of writing
Five steps to a better high school writing program

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Wiredinstructor's landing page for 6-traits writing. This is the jump off spot for all of the 6-trait resources gathered by Dennis O'Connor (AKA) Wiredinstructor

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Books for Teaching 6-Traits: Books listed by trait available on amazon. From Wiredinstructor.net

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Enter a long word, get back a short word

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Confusing Words is a collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused.

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# Storytelling is a human universal, and common themes appear in tales throughout history and all over the the world.
# These characteristics of stories, and our natural affinity toward them, reveal clues about our evolutionary history and the roots of em

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