The Trait Crate® Grade 8: Mentor Texts, Model Lessons, and More to Teach Writing With the 6 Traits - Softcover

Culham, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0545318645 ISBN 13: 9780545318648

Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching, 2011

Synopsis

In this amazing kit, writing expert Ruth Culham gives you grade-perfect mentor texts with in-depth lessons to help you teach the traits of writing ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. The eighth-grade version includes:

6 mentor texts: The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Dinkins by Barbara Kerley; The Black Diamond by Patricia C. and Fredrick McKissack; Samir and Yonatan by Daniella Carmi; Do You Read Me? by Diane Webber; The Iceberg Hermit by Arthur Roth; Wings by Christopher Myers

6 16-page teaching guides, each with four model lessons, student reproducibles, a scoring rubric, and extension activities

A CD with mentor-text passages, whiteboard activities, and student reproducibles

6 teaching posters perfect for middle school

Add to this Culham's best-selling professional book, Using Mentor to Teach Writing With the Traits, and color-coded stickers, and you’ve got a complete resource for teaching with the traits. Best of all, these materials are organized in a sturdy box with hanging folders one for each trait for easy, expandable storage that will accommodate trait-based lesson materials for years to come. For use with Grade 8.

About this title

About the Author:

Ruth Culham is a former classroom teacher and nationally recognized expert in the area of writing assessment. She is the author of the popular 6+1 Traits of Writing model, used throughout the United States and the world as an essential tool for evaluating student writing and planning instruction. Ruth is currently the unit manager for the assessment program at Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory.

About this edition

• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0545318645
• ISBN 13: 9780545318648
• Binding: Paperback