The Trait Crate™ – Kindergarten

The Trait CrateTM – Kindergarten
For your Common Core curriculum. 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. Teaching guides feature step-by-step model lesson, graphic organizers, a scoring rubric, and extension activities. Kit includes six high-interest picture books, six 16-page teaching guides, 120 color-coded stickers for organizing classroom libraries and teaching materials, six expandable folders (one per trait), and the professional book: Using Picture Books to Teach Writing with the Traits, a 112-page resource containing 18 step-by-step lessons and 150 annotations of new and classic books, organized by trait. Also includes Sing-Along Trait Songs, a music CD containing lively, trait-specificl songs to share with your students, complete with a “bonus track” on presentation, and 6 full-color posters containing lyrics to the songs on the CD. Best of all, these materials are organized in a sturdy box with hanging folders – one for each trait – for easy, expandable storage that will accommodate trait-based lesson materials for years to come.