The The Trait Crate(r): Grade 7: Mentor Texts, Model Lessons, and More to Teach Writing With the 6 Traits

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 seventh-grade version includes: * 6 mentor texts: After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick; The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartolli; Oh My Gods by Megan E. Bryant; A Drop of Water by Walter Wick; Music of the Dolphins by Karen Hesse; Henry’s Freedom Box by Ellen Levine * 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.