Getting Started with the Traits, Grades 3-5: Writing Lessons, Activities, Scoring Guides, and More for Successfully Launching Trait-Based Instruction - Paperback

by Ruth Culham (Author), Raymond Coutu (Author)

For intermediate-grade teachers who want to weave the traits into their writing program but are unsure where to begin, help has arrived This book contain just what they need to get started: trait-focused lessons, activities, reproducibles, scoring guides, conference comments, scored sample papers, children's book lists, and teaching tips. But Culham and Coutu do more than provide "stuff"; they provide reliable, levelheaded, easy-to-follow advice on applying the traits so teachers begin seeing results in their students' work from day one.