Writing with Style

By Amy Johnson

Using the Six Traits of Good Writing

This web site contains lessons designed for teachers of fourth grade students to support the Six Traits of Good Writers.
Big Ideas Taught in this Unit:

  1. Students are writers.
  2. In their writing, good writers focus on
  • Organization
  • Ideas
  • Conventions,
  • Voice
  • Word choice
  • Presentation
  1. Good writers proofread writing and have a good presentation.


Essential Question:
Can you make a reader laugh, cry, or feel pain after reading something you have written?

This lesson as a Adobe PDF file.

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