Traits Crate Plus, Digital Enhanced Edition Grade K: Teaching Informational, Narrative, and Opinion Writing with Mentor Texts (Boxed Set) (ISBN-13: 9781338030464)

With six all-new mentor texts per grade and 24 ready-to-teach lessons, Ruth Culhamâ€(TM)s Trait Crate Plus expands and enriches the reading-and-writing experience.

Bring literature to life in the writing classroom!

With six all-new mentor texts per grade and 24 time-saving lessons, Ruth Culham's Trait Crate Plus expands and enriches the reading-and-writing experience. In addition to the valuable features and components of the original Trait Crate, this enhanced edition offers:

• An emphasis on modes--narrative, informational, and opinion--to help you address higher standards
• A companion website that provides access to dozens of downloadable pages for students, video interviews with children's authors, and student-friendly scoring guides
• 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

Grade K Mentor Texts:

• Ideas: Worms for Lunch?
• Organization: Mouse at Night
• Voice: Hiding Phil
• Word Choice: The Great Gracie Chase
• Sentence Fluency: The Deep Blue Sea: A Book of Colors
• Conventions: Monday Is One Day

Using fiction and nonfiction children's books as models, Trait Crate Plus makes teaching writing engaging and relevant through the lessons and activities that inspire complex literacy thinking and learning for every student.

Author: Ruth Culham
ISBN-10: 1338030469
ISBN-13: 9781338030464
Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
Language: English
Published: 05/16/2016
Format: Boxed Set
Weight: 5.25lbs
Size: 13.40h x 10.00w x 5.30d

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