Includes: Six high-interest picture books, hand selected for each trait; Six teaching guides filled with step-by-step lessons, graphic organisers, a scoring rubric and extension activities; Six teaching posters (each 432mm x 559mm); Colour-coded stickers for organisation; The Writing Thief: Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writing, a 216-pp resource in which you'll discover more than 90 excellent mentor texts, along with straightforward activities that incorporate the traits of writing across informational, narrative and argument modes.

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, ,.

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