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

by Culham, Ruth

• ISBN13: 9780545318648
• ISBN10: 0545318645
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-01
• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching

Summary

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.