The Trait Crate ®: For Grades 6, 7, and 8
Ruth Culham
In these amazing kits, writing expert Ruth Culham gives you gradeperfect mentor texts with in-depth lessons to help you teach the traits of writing— ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. 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, 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 traitbased lesson materials for years to come.
Each: $ 125.00 |
SC-531862 • 978-0-545-31862-4 |
Grade 6 |
SC-531863 • 978-0-545-31863-1 |
Grade 7 |
SC-531864 • 978-0-545-31864-8 |
Grade 8 |
Includes a 6 mentor texts, 6 teaching guides, CD, 6 posters, and a professional book
Writing
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Traits of Writing
Picture Books and Mentor Texts Selected for Each Trait
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Ideas |
Organization |
Voice |
Word Choice |
Sentence Fluency |
Grade K |
My Chair |
I Am America |
When Sophie |
Mama Zooms |
Charlie Parker |
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Gets Really, Really |
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Played Be Bop |
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Angry |
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Grade 1
When I Am Old With You
Red-Eyed Tree Frog
Conventions No, David!
Dog Breath |
A Grand Old Tree |
Whales Passing |
Where Are You |
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Going? |
Grade 2 |
Tulip Sees America |
A Busy Year |
Alice the Fairy |
The Best Class |
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Picture Ever! |
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Dizzy Chameleon! |
Grade 3 |
The Hickory Chair |
The Paperboy |
How Are You |
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Peeling? |
Grade 4
A Bad Case of Stripes
Into the A, B, Sea
The Mud Pony |
Wolf! |
My Mama Had a |
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Dancing Heart |
Momma, Where Are You From?
Come On, Rain!
The Mega-Deluxe Capitalization Machine
When Comma Came to Town
Grade 5
Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street
Grade 6 |
Rules |
The Journey: Stories |
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of Migrations |
Grade 7 |
After Ever After |
The Boy Who |
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Dared |
A. Lincoln and Me |
Dear Mrs. LaRue |
Blood & Gore |
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Like You ' ve Never |
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Seen! |
The Bunyans
Any Small Goodness
Oh My Gods |
A Drop of Water |
Music of the |
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Dolphins |
Black Cat Francine Fribble, Proofreading Policewoman
Island
The Day Martin Luther King, Jr., Was Shot
Henry’ s Freedom Box
Grade 8 |
The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Dinkins |
The Black Diamond |
Samir and Yonatan |
Do You Read Me? |
The Iceberg Hermit |
Wings |
About the Author Ruth Culham, President of The Culham Writing Company, was a former Assessment Program Unit Manager at Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory( NWREL) in Portland, Oregon. As a pioneering researcher of the 6 + 1 TRAIT Model, she conducts in-services at school districts across the country and in Canada; presents at state, national, and international institutes; and writes extensively on writing assessment and instruction. Prior to joining NWREL, Ruth was English Teacher of the Year in Montana, a highlight of her 19-year teaching career. She is the author of 6 + 1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide, as well as many other trait-related resources and professional development series on video and DVD.
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