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Scholastic Professional Trait Crate Plus Kits, Grade 2

Manufacturer #803044
Scholastic Professional Trait Crate Plus Kits, Grade 2
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Description

    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 Culham's 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 children's books as mentors. Grade 2 mentor texts include: Ideas: Tony Baloney, by Pam Munoz Ryan and Edwin Fotheringham
    • Organization: Kenya: A to Z, by Justine and Ron Fontes
    • Voice: Detective Blue, by Steve Metzger
    • Word Choice: Gone with the Wand, by Margie Palatini
    • Sentence Fluency: Hot Rod Hamster: Monster Truck Mania, by Cynthia Lord
    • Conventions: The Whales, by Cynthia Rylant.