The Trait Crate Grade 6 [With 6 Full-Color Teaching Posters and CD (Audio) and Using Mentor Texts to Teach Writing with the

By Ruth Culham

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.

In these amazing kits, 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.

Each kit includes: 6 mentor texts 6 16-page teaching guides, each with four model lessons, student reproducibles, a scoring rubric, and extension activities A CD with mentor-text passages, passages, student reproducibles, and scoring guides. 6 teaching posters perfect for middle school

Add to this Culham's best-selling professional book, Using Mentor Texts 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 traitbased lesson materials for years to come.

6th Grade Mentor Texts: Rules by Cynthia Lord The Journey: Stories of Migrations by Cynthia Rylant The Bunyans by Audrey Wood Any Small Goodness by Tony Johnston Shipwreck by Gordon Korman The Day Martin Luther King, Jr., Was Shot by Jim Haskins

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0545318629
• ISBN13: 9780545318624
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
• Weight: 6.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.3" x 13.6" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 11 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 6