Special Ingredients to the 6 + 1 Traits of Writing

https://cdn.thinglink.me/api/image/434065594174668802/1240/10/ https://www.google.com/search?q=chocolate+cake&rlz=1C1JZAP_enGD830GD831&sxsrf=ALeKk03seUR In order to make this delicious chocolate cake I will need special ingredients; if I do not have these ingredients then there is no way I can make this cake. Likewise, in writing there are six plus one (6+1) wonderful ingredients that children can use to help them produce quality writing. These ingredients are ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions and presentation. Before learning the 6+1 traits of writing, I never paid great attention to it. I knew I had to generate ideas, organize the piece of writing from the beginning to the end, sentences needed to have rhythm and flow and the conventions of writing such as spelling, ...