Product Overview
In this amazing kit, writing expert Ruth Culham gives you grade-perfect mentor texts with in-depth lessons to help you teach the traits of writingideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. The sixth-grade version includes:
6 mentor texts: Rules by Cynthia Lord; The Journey: Stories of Migrations by Cynthia Rylant; The Bunyans by Audrey Wood; Any Small Goodness by Tony Johnston; Island by Gordon Korman; The Day Martin Luther King, Jr., Was Shot By Jim Haskins
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 perfect for middle school
Add to this Culham's best-selling professional book, Using Mentor to Teach Writing With the Traits, and color-coded stickers, and youve got a complete resource for teaching with the traits. Best of all, these materials are organized in a sturdy box with hanging foldersone for each traitfor easy, expandable storage that will accommodate trait-based lesson materials for years to come. For use with Grade 6.
6 mentor texts: Rules by Cynthia Lord; The Journey: Stories of Migrations by Cynthia Rylant; The Bunyans by Audrey Wood; Any Small Goodness by Tony Johnston; Island by Gordon Korman; The Day Martin Luther King, Jr., Was Shot By Jim Haskins
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 perfect for middle school
Add to this Culham's best-selling professional book, Using Mentor to Teach Writing With the Traits, and color-coded stickers, and youve got a complete resource for teaching with the traits. Best of all, these materials are organized in a sturdy box with hanging foldersone for each traitfor easy, expandable storage that will accommodate trait-based lesson materials for years to come. For use with Grade 6.
