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Traits Crate Plus, Digital Enhanced Edition Grade 3: Teaching Informational, Narrative, and Opinion Writing with Mentor Texts

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Traits Crate Plus, Digital Enhanced Edition Grade 3 by Ruth Culham offers an engaging approach to teaching writing. It features six fresh mentor texts and 24 ready-to-teach lessons that cover narrative, informational, and opinion writing modes. The book includes a companion website with downloadable materials, author interviews, and scoring guides, plus Culham's acclaimed The Writing Thief to deepen understanding of mentor text usage. Third-grade specific texts focus on key writing traits like ideas, organisation, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions.
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Ideal for primary school teachers aiming to enrich their writing curriculum with diverse, practical resources and for educators seeking to meet higher writing standards through literature-based instruction.

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With six all-new mentor texts per grade and 24 ready-to-teach lessons, Ruth Culham's Trait Crate Plus expands and enriches the reading-and-writing experience.

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With six all-new mentor texts per grade and 24 ready-to-teach lessons, Ruth Culham’s Traits Crate Plus expands and enriches the reading-and-writing experience.

Bring literature to life in the writing classroom!

With six all-new mentor texts per grade and 24 time-saving lessons, Ruth Culham's Traits Crate Plus expands and enriches the reading-and-writing experience. In addition to the valuable features and components of the original Trait Crate, this enhanced edition offers:

  • An emphasis on modes—narrative, informational, and opinion—to help you address higher standards
  • A companion website that provides access to dozens of downloadable pages for students, video interviews with children's authors, and student-friendly scoring guides
  • Culham's bestseller, The Writing Thief, which takes a deep dive into the theory and practice of using mentor texts to teach the craft of writing

Grade 3 Mentor Texts:

  • Ideas: The Swing
  • Organisation: Train
  • Voice: The Pet Shop Revolution
  • Word Choice: Lizards
  • Sentence Fluency: Too Many Toys
  • Conventions: Exclamation Mark

Using fiction and nonfiction children's books as models, Trait Crate Plus makes teaching writing engaging and relevant through the lessons and activities that inspire complex literacy thinking and learning for every student.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780545837712

Publisher: Scholastic US

Format: Multiple-component retail product, boxed

Date Published: 10 June 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: Scholastic US

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 135.0mm

Width: 254.0mm

Height: 340.0mm

Weight: 2585g

About the Author

Ruth Culham, Ed.D., is the president of the Culham Writing Company and former Unit Manager of the Assessment Program at Education Northwest in Portland, Oregon. She is the recognized expert in the traits of writing field and author of many professional resources published by Scholastic, including 6+1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide, Grades 3 and Up; 6+1 Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for the Primary Grades; and Traits of Writing: The Complete Guide for Middle School, and is the winner of the 2011 Teacher's Choice award.

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