DLC Writing Traits - Grade 6
In this unit of video lessons, students will discover some strategies for making every piece of writing more readable.
Writing That Flows
They will learn to:
- vary sentence length and structure to enhance fluency
- rewrite run-on sentence to end confusion and make reading easier
- rank writing examples based on fluency and revise non-fluent writing
- analyze fluency to discover the "secret ingredients"
- use transitional words
- use long and short sentences
- vary sentence beginnings
- use repetition for emphasis
- use effective sentence fragments
- use run-ons in an interesting way
- writing gives clear message immediately
Sentence Fluency - Introduction
Sentence Fluency - Lesson 5.1 - "Short, Long and In Between" - Varying Sentence Length
Sentence Fluency - Lesson 5.2 - "Stopping Run-ons in Their Tracks" - Avoiding Run-On Sentences
Sentence Fluency - Lesson 5.3 - "Moving Up the Fluency Ranks" - Ranking Writing Fluency
Sentence Fluency - Lesson 5.4 - "Finding the Secret Ingredients" - Modeling After Mentor Authors
Sentence Fluency - Editing Level 1 - "Editing for the Works"
Sentence Fluency - Editing Level 2 - Presentation - 'The Beautiful Bulleted List"