Scholastic Professional Trait Crate Plus Kits, Grade 5

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. Grade 5 mentor texts include: Ideas: Buried Sunlight, by Molly Bang and Penny Chisolm Organization: Unspoken: A Story from the Underground Railroad, by Henry Cole Voice: The Adventures of Ook and Gluk Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Future, by George Beard and Harold Hutchins Word Choice: Testing the Ice: A True Story About Jackie Robinson, by Sharon Robinson and Kadir Nelson Sentence Fluency: Jangles: A Big Fish Story, by David Shannon Conventions: What"s New? The Zoo!, by Kathleen Krull.