In these amazing kits, 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.
Each kit includes:
- 6 mentor texts
- 6 16-page teaching guides, each with four model lessons, student reproducibles, a scoring rubric, and extension activities
- A CD with mentor-text passages, passages, student reproducibles, and scoring guides.
- 6 teaching posters perfect for middle school
Add to this Culham''s best-selling professional book, Using Mentor Texts 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 traitbased lesson materials for years to come.
8th Grade Mentor Texts:
- The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kerley
- 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
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