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

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. The sixth-grade version includes:
- 6 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; Island by Gordon Korman; The Day Martin Luther King, Jr., Was Shot By Jim Haskins
- 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.

• Format: Paperback
• 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