Provides in-depth lessons from writing expert, Ruth Culham.
- Helps you teach the traits of writing. Traits include ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency and conventions.
- 6 mentor texts.
- Six, 16-page teaching guides. Each with four model lessons, student reproducibles, a scoring rubric and extension activities.
- CD CD with mentor-text passages, whiteboard activities and student reproducibles.
- 6 teaching posters. 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.