Download or read book The Trait Crate, Grade 7 written by Ruth Culham and published by Teaching Resources. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing expert Ruth Culham pairs grade-level mentor texts with in-depth lessons to help you teach the traits of writing: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. The seventh-grade version includes: * 6 mentor texts: After Ever After by Jordan Sonnenblick; The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartolli; Oh My Gods by Megan E. Bryant; A Drop of Water by Walter Wick; Music of the Dolphins by Karen Hesse; Henryls Freedom Box by Ellen Levine. * 6 16-page teaching guides, each with four model lessons, student reproducibles, a scoring rubric, and extension activities *A CD with mentor-text passages, whiteboard activities, and student reproducibles *6 teaching posters for middle school. *Culham's pofessional book, Using Mentor Texts to Teach Writing With the Traits, and color-coded stickers, These materials are organized in a sturdy box with hanging folders: one for each trait.