Product Description:

• 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 third-grade version includes
  
  * 6 picture books: The Hickory Chair, The Paperboy, How Are You Peeling?, Into the A, B, C, Momma, Where Are You From?, and The Mega-Deluxe Capitalization Machine
  
  * 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 you’ve 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. For use with Grade 3.

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