The Trait Crate®: Grade 6: Mentor Texts, Model Lessons, and More to Teach Writing With the 6 Traits

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. 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 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 trait-based lesson materials for years to come. For use with Grade 6.