6th+Grade+Sharing

=6th Grade Writing Strategies =

Strategies for Paragraph Writing
===Strategies for Personal Narratives I used to have my students keep a series of personal narratives throughout the year. The first one was an early memory and the narratives progressed through time. I used narratives from "Voices" as examples. At the end of the year, I had the students illustrate and bind their narratives into a book. They loved doing it and it provided them with kind of a biography of their very short lives:-). - Kathy===

Strategies for Research Writing
===Strategies for Functional Writing Val: A fun way to introduce writing a process essay is to have the students "tell" you how to do something. For example, I have them tell me step-by-step how to put on my coat. When they say, "Pick up your coat," I pick it up and hold it in a way that is not right (for example, by the arm or upside down). It doesn't take them long to see that they need to be very specific and use descriptive language in order for me to really be able to follow their directions. This lesson always gets lots of laughs and gets the point across. :)===