150 Carefully Chosen Books to Strengthen Students' Writing in All 6 Traits
Mini Lessons for K-8 Teachers Beverly A. DeVries. Many teachers focus on vivid word choice ... using slang/dialect in their stories. The fourth trait, voice, is often omitted when teaching writing ... Trait: Content Genre: Fiction Mentor Text: ...
Provides eighteen trait-focused lessons based on specific picture books, along with 150 annotations of both new and classic books.
Teaching Writing Through Children's Literature, K-6 Lynne R. Dorfman, Rose Cappelli, Linda Hoyt ... The (Byars), 182, 183f, 319 Miller, Debbie, 263 Miller, Debbie S., Arctic Lights, Arctic Nights, 156, 308, 316, 330 Miller, Kathy M., ...
Mentor-text-based lessons on finding topics, organizing material, writing leads and endings, exploring genre, and more.
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.
Author Ruth Culham, both a successful writer and writing teacher, understands the challenges elementary teachers face when teaching writing and revision and now shares her knowledge in Teach Writing Well: How to Assess Writing, Invigorate ...
Within this book, you'll discover more than 90 excellent mentor texts, along with straight-forward activities that incorporate the traits of writing across informational, narrative, and argument modes.
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 writing--ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions.
"Checklists, Graphic Organizers, Rubrics, Scoring Sheets, and More to Boost Students' Writing Skills in All Seven Traits"--Cover.
Provides teachers with trait-specific assessment materials, including scoring guides, benchmark papers, and sample conference comments, along with warm-up exercises, focus lessons, and activities for the middle school classroom.