Scholastic Professional Trait Crate Plus Kits, Grade 3

Scholastic Professional Trait Crate Plus Kits, Grade 3
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Description

    This kit from writing expert Ruth Culham gives you grade-perfect picture books and in-depth lessons to teach writing based on the following traits: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency and conventions. The digitally enhanced kit includes 6 picture books, a professional book on using mentor texts, 6 teaching guides, posters, stickers and web links to downloadable lesson resources and author videos.

    • Trait Crate Plus features thoughtful and creative lessons that are ready-to-use.
    • A companion website provides access to dozens of downloadable pages for students, video interviews with children’s authors and student-friendly scoring guides.
    • Kit includes Ruth Culham's bestseller The Writing Thief, which takes a deep dive into the theory and practice of using mentor texts to teach the craft of writing.
    • Trait Crate Plus uses fiction and nonfiction children's books as mentors. Grade 3 mentor texts include: Ideas: The Swing, by Joe Cepeda
    • Organization: Train, by Elisha Cooper
    • Voice: The Pet Shop Revolution, by Ana Juan
    • Word Choice: Lizards, by Nic Bishop
    • Sentence Fluency: Too Many Toys, by David Shannon
    • Conventions: Exclamation Mark, by Amy Krause Rosenthal.