Ruth Culham

Raymond Coutu

"Reliable, level-headed, easy-to-follow advice on using the traits -- ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions -- so you begin seeing results in your students' work from day one."--Pg.4 of cover.

Writing Lessons, Activities, Scoring Guides, and More for Successfully Launching Trait-Based Instruction in Your Classroom

Getting Started With the Traits Grades 3-5

James Blasingame

150 Carefully Chosen Books to Strengthen Students' Writing in All 6 Traits

Middle School: Grades 6-8

Using Mentor Texts to Teach Writing With the Traits

For primary-grade teachers who want to weave the traits into their writing program but are unsure where to begin, help has arrived! This book contain just what they need to get started: trait-focused lessons, activities, reproducibles, scoring guides, conference comments, scored sample papers, children's book lists, and teaching tips. But Culham and Coutu do more than provide ""stuff""; they provide reliable, levelheaded, easy-to-follow advice on applying the traits so teachers begin seeing results in their students' work from day one. For use with Grades K-2.

Getting Started With the Traits Grades K-2

Provides eighteen trait-focused lessons based on specific picture books, along with 150 annotations of both new and classic books.

An Annotated Bibliography of More Than 150 Mentor Texts with Teacher-tested Lessons : K-2

Using Picture Books to Teach Writing with the Traits

Justin's life is a disaster. He has to go to summer school three times a week. His mother and stepfather can't think about anything except the twins who are due in less than three weeks. Then, when Justin decides to go in search of a mysterious sea monster, all he finds is trouble.

Raymond Coutu

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