Scholastic Professional Trait Crate Plus Kits, Grade 4

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 4 mentor texts include: Ideas: If Kids Ran the World, by Leo and Diane Dillon
• Organization: Who Would Win? Whale vs. Giant Squid, by Jerry Pallotta
• Voice: Bugs in My Hair, by David Shannon Word Choice: The Three Little Pigs and the Somewhat Bad Wolf, by Mark Teague
• Sentence Fluency: Steve Jobs: A True Book, by Josh Gregory
• Conventions: Season of the Circle: A Native American Year, by Joseph Bruchac.