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The book will show how art can be used to teach the Traits of Writing. Each chapter will include a summary of each trait and art and writing lessons to demonstrate how to teach the trait.
Find practical help for everyday questions, with this handy and compact dictionary! It is a reliable resource of commonly used words and their meanings. Designed with convenience in mind, it contains 448 pages of words, a thorough appendix, maps of continents and countries, information on U.S. States and Presidents, copies of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, as well as conversion charts for weights and measures. A must-have for any student, American Education Publishing Backpack Dictionaries are designed in a compact size for easy travel.
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 seventh-grade version includes: * 6 mentor texts: After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick; The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartolli; Oh My Gods by Megan E. Bryant; A Drop of Water by Walter Wick; Music of the Dolphins by Karen Hesse; Henryls Freedom Box by Ellen Levine. * 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 pofessional 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.
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 1 Mentor Texts: Ideas: The Wonderful Book Organization: The End (Almost) Voice: Dumb Bunnies Go to the Zoo Word Choice: A Tree Can Be Sentence Fluency: Just How Long Can a Long String Be? Conventions: The Gingerbread Bear 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.
