The Trait Crate: Grade 4
Picture Books, Model Lessons, and More to Teach Writing With the 6 Traits

By Ruth Culham

From 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. The fourth-grade version includes
• 6 picture books: A Bad Case of Stripes; The Mud Pony; My Mama Had a Dancing Heart; Come On Rain; When Comma Came to Town; and Wolf!
• Six 16-page teaching guides, each with a step-by-step model lesson, graphic organizers, a scoring rubric, and extension activities;
• 12 transparencies; and
• 6 colorful teaching posters. Add to this Culham's best-selling professional book, Using Picture Books to Teach Writing With the Traits, and color-coded stickers, and you¹ve 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 trait-based lesson materials for years to come.
• 120 Stickers
• 6 expandable folders-one per trait

Box Set Includes: 6 picture books, 6 16-page teaching guides, 12 transparencies, 6 posters, 120 stickers, 6 expandable folders-one per trait   Box:
Grade 4