ERIC Number: EJ661695
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Publication Date: 2002
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Serving Diverse Audiences: When the Indiana School for the Deaf Seeks Help To Improve Students' Writing Skills, It Discovers the 6+1 Trait Model. The Rest Is History.
Boss, Suzie
Northwest Education, v8 n2 p6-7 Win 2002
When a teacher-trainer conducted a workshop on the "6+1" model of writing evaluation for teachers at a school for the deaf, she used her experience teaching deaf children to adapt the model for their use. Since she knew that deaf students are actually English language learners, she drew on and modified a version of the model used with native Spanish speakers. (TD)
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Adoption (Ideas), Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods, Models, Residential Schools, Teacher Workshops, Writing Evaluation, Writing Instruction
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Language: English
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Note: Theme issue title: "Focus on Writing." Special section "6+1 Traits of Writing Assessment" has separate pagination.
