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The Trait Crate Grade 8: Mentor Texts, Model Lessons, and More to Teach Writing

In this amazing kit, writing expert Ruth Culham gives you grade-perfect mentor texts with in-depth lessons to help you teach... Read More
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About the Product

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 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 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: Box Set

Language: English

Book Title: The Trait Crate Grade 8: Mentor Texts, Model Lessons, and More to

Author: Ruth Culham

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