At the beginning of the school year, I asked our students to focus on a few important areas. These included the following:
- Be the best reader you can be
- Follow the Lifelong Guidelines and Lifeskills
- Be the best writer you can be
As a way to kick off the school year and our focus on being good writers, we welcomed Mr. Jim Mitchell from Wisconsin at MLK today for an energetic assembly focusing on the "6 + 1 Traits" of good writing. These include:
- Ideas
- Organization
- Voice
- Word Choice
- Sentence Fluency
- Conventions
- and Presentation
These are words and ideas that parents may be able to use at home also to understand and describe good writing.
At the beginning of the school year, I asked our students to focus on a few important areas. These included the following:
