Scholastic Professional Trait Crate Plus Kits, Grade K MPN:803046

This kit from writing expert Ruth Culham gives you grade-perfect picture books and in-depth lessons to teach writing based on the following traits: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency and conventions. The digitally enhanced kit includes 6 picture books, a professional book on using mentor texts, 6 teaching guides, posters, stickers and web links to downloadable lesson resources and author videos. Trait Crate Plus features thoughtful and creative lessons that are ready-to-use. A companion website provides access to dozens of downloadable pages for students, video interviews with children"s authors and student-friendly scoring guides. Kit includes Ruth Culhams bestseller The Writing Thief, which takes a deep dive into the theory and practice of using mentor texts to teach the craft of writing. Trait Crate Plus uses fiction and nonfiction childrens books as mentors. Kindergarten mentor texts include: Ideas: Worms for Lunch?, by Leonid Gore Organization: Mouse at Night, by Nancy Christensen Hall Voice: Hiding Phil, by Eric Barclay Word Choice: The Great Gracie Chase, by Cynthia Rylant and Mark Teague Sentence Fluency: The Deep Blue Sea: A Book of Colors, by Audrey and Bruce Wood Conventions: Monday Is One Day, by Arthur A. Levine.

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