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The following was originally published September 16, 2009 at http://6traits.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/the-delicious-bug/ In [|The Delicious Bug] by Janet Perlman, Willy and Wally see a delicious bug by the pond… //kerBLAPPP! They both caught the bug at the same time!// Primary/Intermediate:** This book was created by an animator, so it looks like a comic. Students can make their own comics with [|ReadWriteThink’s Comic Creator]. Before they go to the web to create the comic, ask students to make a practice comic strip. What will their character do? What will he say? [|Literacy Links] Copyright © 2009 Anastasia Suen All Rights Reserved.
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The following was originally published September 13, 2009 at http://6-traits.blogspot.com/2009/09/writing-fix-sentence-fluency-homepage.html >> The Writing Traits: Sentence Fluency helping your students "go deep" with sentence variety during classroom writing instruction >> WritingFix offers a **free** template of Sentence Fluency Post-It sized notes. These can either be printed on orange colored paper and cut out and stapled to students' drafts, or you can--if you dare--attempt to print them on real 3 x 3 Post-It Notes. >> The two most common English words that start our sentences? //I// and //The//. If you currently have a classroom of students, you know this to be true. >> >> It's such a simple lesson to ask students to revisit their drafts by circling the first words of their sentences, then asking, "Did you think about starting with a variety of words?" Most of them haven't thought about this, and the question becomes the catalyst for a new way to think about revising writing. >> Here is our current collection of prompts and lessons to challenge students to begin their sentences differently. Posted from [|Diigo]. The rest of my [|favorite links] are here. UW-Stout E-Learning and Online Teaching Graduate Certificate.
 * [|WritingFix: The Sentence Fluency Hompage][|tags]: [|writing], [|6-traits]