Using Mentor Texts to Teach Writing With the Traits: Middle School: An Annotated Bibliography of 150 Picture Books, Chapter Books, and Young Adult Novels With Teacher-Tested Lessons

Becoming a better writer begins with reading well-written books and trying what their authors do successfully. So why not help middle schoolers improve their writing by exposing them to mentor texts written just for them? Culham, Blasingame, and Coutu have selected 150 fiction and nonfiction books by master writers, annotated them, and organized them by trait. Each annotation explains what the book is about and why it’s a good model. Twenty ready-to-use, literature-based lessons are also included. For use with Grades 6–8.

• Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for Middle School (Theory and Practice (Scholastic))
• Scholastic Using Benchmark Papers to Teach Writing with the Traits, Grades 6 to 8
• Reproducible Forms for the Writing Traits Classroom: Middle School: Checklists, Graphic Organizers, Rubrics, Scoring Sheets, and More to Boost Students' Writing Skills in All Seven Traits
• The Quickwrite Handbook: 100 Mentor Texts to Jumpstart Your Students' Thinking and Writing
• Daily Trait Warm-Ups: 180 Revision and Editing Activities to Kick Off Writing Time
• 180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents
• Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, and Style into Writer's Workshop
• 6 + 1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide, Grades 3 and Up
• Writing Workshop in Middle School: What You Need to Really Make It Work in the Time You’ve Got
• Paragraphs for Middle School: A Sentence-Composing Approach