The comments middle school teachers need to help student writers improve.
Giving constructive feedback to student writers is critical to their success. But findinf the right words can be difficult…until now. In this guide, Ruth Culham provides 100 trait-specific comments that address essential writing skills. The comments are correlated to all-new middle school scoring guides, according to six performance levels-rudimentary, emerging, developing, refining, strong, and exceptional-making it easy to pin-point areas of need and target instruction. Spiral-bound, colour-coded, tabbed by trait, and printed on sturdy paper that will stand up to years of use.Helpful and easy-to-access comments, organized by trait.Ideal for use in one-on-one conferences, in small groups, and with the whole class.Comments can be modified easily and delivered orally or in writing. Contains all-new scoring guides for each trait, developed just for middle school teachers.Attractive, easy-to-use format; sturdy, durable, construction.The perfect companion to Culham's Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for Middle School and other middle school resources.
Ruth Culham, Ed.D., a pioneering researcher of the Trait Model, is president of Culham Writing Company, which offers practical, engaging workshops designed to help beginning and experienced teachers implement the model in K–12 classrooms. Prior to founding her company, Ruth was assessment program unit manager at Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory; a teacher at Meadow Hill Middle School in Missoula, Montana, and Mountain View Middle School in Beaverton, Oregon; and English Teacher of the Year in Montana, a highlight of her 19-year teaching career.