writing lessons, activities, scoring guides, and more for successfully launching trait-based instruction in your classroom
Culham, Ruth
2009
Provides an explanation of the trait model writing program, and includes assessment tools and teaching materials, including forty-eight activities with reproducible pages and twenty-four lesson plans.
Contains lessons for using recommended picture books to teach six traits of the writing process--ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions.
Look at good writing in any genre, and you'll find clear evidence of these traits: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions and presentation.
Contains more than seventy-five writing prompts, organized by science, math, and social studies, with guidelines for using them and reproducible versions, designed to help students build content knowledge through writing.
