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.