The Trait Crate Grade 8

In these amazing kits, writing expert Ruth Culham gives you grade-perfect mentor texts with in-depth lessons to help you teach the traits of writing ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions.

Each kit includes:

• 6 mentor texts
• 6 16-page teaching guides, each with four model lessons, student reproducibles, a scoring rubric, and extension activities
• A CD with mentor-text passages, passages, student reproducibles, and scoring guides.
• 6 teaching posters perfect for middle school

Add to this Culham's best-selling professional book, Using Mentor Texts to Teach Writing With the Traits, and color-coded stickers, and you've got a complete resource for teaching with the traits. 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 traitbased lesson materials for years to come.

8th Grade Mentor Texts:

• The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kerley
• Black Diamond by Patricia C. and Fredrick McKissack
• Samir and Yonatan by Daniella Carmi
• Do You Read Me? by Diane Webber
• The Iceberg Hermit by Arthur Roth
• Wings by Christopher Myers