Companion website available with downloadable pages, video interviews with children's authors, and scoring guides.
Includes 6 mentor texts, one for each trait; 6 teaching guides with trait-focused, mode-specific lessons based on the mentor texts; The writing thief, which discusses using mentor texts to teach writing; 6 teaching posters; 120 color-coded stickers to label books and other teaching materials by trait; tabbed hanging folders to organize materials by trait.
Content Note
The writing thief: using mentor texts to teach the craft of writing / Ruth Culham -- Folder 1. Ideas. The Wonderful Book / Leonid Gore ; Teaching ideas using The Wonderful Book -- Folder 2. Organization. The End (Almost) / Jim Benton ; Teaching organization using The End (Almost) -- Folder 3. Voice. The Dumb Bunnies Go To The Zoo / by Dav Pilkey ; Teaching voice using The Dumb Bunnies Go To The Zoo -- Folder 4. Word Choice. A Tree Can Be... / Judy Nayer ; Teaching word choice using A Tree Can Be... -- Folder 5. Sentence Fluency. Just How Long Can a Long String Be?! / Keith Baker ; Teaching sentence fluency using Just How Long Can a Long String Be?! -- Folder 6. Conventions. The Gingerbread Bear / Robert Dennis ; Teaching conventions using The Gingerbread Bear.