I have a confession. I hate Write Traits. Our school bought the whole program hook, line, and sinker and for 5 years I have had to find some lessons out of each year that I could utilize. I adapt them for my writing workshop but honestly, I hate canned programs. I know its a bias. I find Write traits too cutesy for my students and I'll never forget trying to use "Topicville" for research paper writing. I "did" the lesson from the teacher books and handed out the three page worksheet packet. Finally, at conference time, Trevor looked up from the worksheets, (they have lots of worksheets) and sighed. I asked what was up and he looked at me and said, " You've got to be kidding Mrs. P. Can't we just do workshop? This stuff is from grade school" -- Tena
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