Product description

Description

Using fiction and nonfiction children’s books as mentors, Trait Crate® Plus adds new life and energy to the teaching of writing through thoughtful and creative lessons that are ready-to-use tomorrow. Everything you need is provided. Traits Crate Plus helps students learn and use the six traits-ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions-to improve specific skills in writing. With six all-new mentor texts per grade and 24 time-saving lessons, Ruth Culham’s Trait Crate® Plus expands and enriches the reading-and-writing experience. In addition to the valuable features and components of the original Trait Crate this enhanced edition offers:

An emphasis on modes – narrative, informational, and opinion-to help you address higher standards.
A companion website that provides access to dozens of downloadable pages for students, video interviews with children’s authors, and student-friendly scoring guides.
Culham’s bestseller The Writing Thief , which takes a deep dive into the theory and practice of using mentor texts to teach the craft of writing.
Mentor Texts:

Ideas: Worms for Lunch? , by Leonid Gore
Organization: Mouse at Night, by Nancy Christensen Hall
Voice: Hiding Phil , by Eric Barclay
Word Choice: The Great Gracie Chase , by Cynthia Rylant and Mark Teague
Sentence Fluency: The Deep Blue Sea: A Book of Colors , by Audrey and Bruce Wood
Conventions: Monday Is One Day , by Arthur A. Levine

Grades:

PreK-K

Author(s):

Ruth Culham

Publisher:

Scholastic

Year:

2016

Pages:

Instructional Program

Media/Binding:

Softcover

iSBN:

9781338030464