The Trait Crate Grade 7 [With CDROM and Sticker(s) and 6 Trait Posters and Teacher's Guide and 6 Expandable Folders]

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.

7th Grade Mentor Texts: After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartolli Mythlopedia Oh My Gods by Megan E. Bryant A Drop of Water by Walter Wick The Music of the Dolphins by Karen Hesse Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0545318637
• ISBN13: 9780545318631
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
• Weight: 7.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 10.1" x 13.4"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7