Product Description: Looking for specific, classroom-tested ways to build the skills of the youngest writers? Look no further than this exciting new DVD series from Ruth Culham, expert on writing assessment and instruction. Filmed in K-2 classrooms, the series showcases how to assess student work and plan instruction according to all seven traits: ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and presentation...read more

Product Description: Picture Books, Model Lessons, and More to Teach Writing With the 6 TraitsBy Ruth CulhamFrom Ruth Culham!In this amazing kit, writing expert Ruth Culham gives you grade-perfect picture books with in-depth lessons to help you teach the traits of writing ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions...read more

Product Description: Picture Books, Model Lessons, and More to Teach Writing With the 6 TraitsBy Ruth CulhamFrom Ruth Culham!In this amazing kit, writing expert Ruth Culham gives you grade-perfect picture books with in-depth lessons to help you teach the traits of writing ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions...read more

Product Description: Teaching writing just got easier and more effective thanks to these ingenious "crates". Writing expert Ruth Culham gives you grade-perfect picture books with in-depth lessons to help teach the traits of writing. Kit includes six picture books, a professional book, six teaching guides, posters, stickers and a sturdy box with six hanging folders to keep it all organized...read more

Provides ideas for comments to give to students when evaluating writing exercises, with each comment categorized according to its corresponding writing trait.

Presents a collection of reproducible forms that help in planning instruction, assessing writing, keeping records, and communicating with parents.

Product Description: Disc 1 (67 minutes) provides important background on the TRAIT model along with scoring tips, rubric, detailed lessons, management tips, teacher interviews, and student comments covering the Ideas and Organization traits.Disc 2 (67 minutes) focuses in detail on the Voice, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Conventions, and Presentation traits...read more

Product Description: A unique trait-based resource from expert Ruth Culham, this big, informative flip chart is a student-friendly guide to the traits—ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. For each trait, you’ll find a definition, writing tips, a scoring rubric, and two model essays (low- and high-scoring samples)...read more

Product Description: Bring Ruth Culham’s 6+1 Traits of Writing model to life! This video series provides teachers with essential information they need to assess and teach student writing. Composed of four videotapes, this set takes you inside third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade classrooms as teachers use scoring guides to evaluate children’s writing, model each of the 6+1 traits in classroom lessons, and refelect on their students’ learning strategies...read more

Describes the traits of good writing in any genre and includes information on assessing student writing skills, lesson planning, and activities.

Provides thirty-two trait-focused lessons based on specific picture books along with two hundred annotations of both new and classic books.

The R.A.F.T.S. technique provides students with the baseline information they need to focus their writing: a Role from which to write, an Audience to address, a Format in which to write, a Topic about which to write and a Strong verb that suggests the purpose of the writing.Provides more than writing prompts to build student's writing proficiency along with guidelines for their use.

Provides more than seventy-five writing prompts for mathematics, social studies, and science along with guidelines for using them.

The R.A.F.T.S. technique provides students with the baseline information they need to focus their writing: a Role from which to write, an Audience to address, a Format in which to write, a Topic about which to write and a Strong verb that suggests the purpose of the writing.Provides more than writing prompts to build student's writing proficiency along with guidelines for their use.

Provides more than seventy-five writing prompts for mathematics, social studies, and science along with guidelines for using them.

Presents a collection of reproducible forms that help in planning instruction, keeping records, communicating with parents, and help students in their writing lessons.

Describes the traits of good writing in any genre and includes information on assessing student writing skills, lesson planning, and activities.