The Trait Crate: Grade 8 (Grades 6-8) Mentor Texts, Model Lessons, and More to Teach Writing With the 6 Traits
Writing expert Ruth Culham pairs grade-level mentor texts with in-depth lessons to help you teach the traits of writing: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. The eighth-grade version includes: *6 mentor texts: The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Dinkins by Barbara Kerley; The Black Diamond by Patricia C. and Fredrick McKissack; Samir and Yonatan by Daniella Carmi; Do You Read Me? by Diane Webber; The Iceberg Hermit by Arthur Roth; Wings by Christopher Myers *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 for middle school *Culham's professional book, Using Mentor Texts to Teach Writing With the Traits, and color-coded stickers These materials are organized in a sturdy box with hanging folders:one for each trait.
