Publisher's Synopsis
In this amazing kit, writing expert Ruth Culham gives you grade-perfect mentor texts with in-depth lessons to help you teach the traits of writing--ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. The sixth-grade version includes:
- 6 mentor texts: Rules by Cynthia Lord; The Journey: Stories of Migrations by Cynthia Rylant; The Bunyans by Audrey Wood; Any Small Goodness by Tony Johnston; Island by Gordon Korman; The Day Martin Luther King, Jr., Was Shot By Jim Haskins
- 6 16-page teaching guides, each with four model lessons, student reproducibles, a scoring rubric, and extension activities
- A CD with mentor-text passages, whiteboard activities, and student reproducibles
- 6 teaching posters perfect for middle school
