Books with title Complete Writing Lessons for the Primary Grades

Why has the 6+1 TRAIT model had such a tremendous impact on writing instruction? Because it works. It allows teachers to pinpoint students’ strengths and weaknesses in ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, conventions, and presentation, and focus instruction. Now Culham turns her expert eye to our youngest students. Like her groundbreaking guide for grades 3 and up, her new book contains scoring guides, sample papers, and focus lessons for each trait, but framed to address K–2 teachers’ needs! For use with Grades K-2.

Bring Ruth Culham’s 6+1 Traits of Writing model to life! This video series provides teachers with essential information they need to assess and teach student writing. Composed of four videotapes, this set takes you inside third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade classrooms as teachers use scoring guides to evaluate children’s writing, model each of the 6+1 traits in classroom lessons, and refelect on their students’ learning strategies. Each videotape is approximately 30 minutes in length. Includes a professional development study guide.Video 1: Overview of a Traits-Based Classroom and Getting StartedVideo 2: Ideas and OrganizationVideo 3: Voice and Word ChoiceVideo 4: Sentence Fluency, Conventions, and Presentation For use with Grades 3–8.

Your class will not be able to resist these 30 high-interest writing challenges on such diverse topics as idiom stories, character studies, myths, tall tales, jokes, poetry, spooky stories, and more. The easy-to-use format means you can start teaching right away, with complete teacher-directed lessons from start to finish. This book includes a summary of the writing process and a writing skills checklist.