The Six Traits Primary Version

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• What is the message?
• Does it make a point?
• Does it tell a story?
• Details, details, details!

• Beginning and ending
• Like things go together
• Balance on the page
• Order makes sense

• Personality!
• Pizzazz!
• Flavor, charm, liveliness
• Individuality
• New, different, full of adventurous spirit

• Using words correctly
• Trying something new
• Verbs!
• Flair, personal phrasing

• Sentences that hang together
• Sentence "sense"
• Variety
• Rhythm and flow
• An ear for language patterns

• Left to right orientation
• Up to down orientation
• Letters facing the right direction
• Spaces between words and between lines
• Distinguishing between lowercase and capital letters
• Playing with punctuation
• Knowing the names of some conventions
• Copying environmental print
• Having readable spelling as a goal